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This is a handy chart to easily convert DRA, Guided Reading & AR Levels with Grade Level Equivalencies as well as reading development stages. ***the color coding is a system I used to label my books in first grade and found it especially handy when I was a reading specialist. I teach my student...
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Have you often wondered what your students reading abilities are at the beginning of the school year because you either receive NO data or the data seems really off? OR... Maybe you've gotten a new student in the middle of the year and had no clue where his/her reading abilities are? This blog post will
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Reading level measurements aren't perfect and neither are the conversions but as a general guide, it's a handy tool to keep around.
A LOOK AT LEXILES and Text Complexity While delivering PD yesterday, a teacher asked me, "What's a Lexile?" I wanted to say, "where...
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For most of my students, summarizing is a challenge, especially when it comes to identifying key details and boiling our summaries down to the most important information. More often than not, the text summaries students write are actually text retells, and they lose focus of what's important. So how do students 'boil it down,' and more importantly, how can we make it FUN? Becoming 'Summarizing Superstars' doesn't happen overnight, so it's always a challenge to come up with motivating tasks to practice summarizing - tasks that can potentially keep students motivated over the course of a few weeks! High-interest texts
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Synthesizing is one of the more difficult reading comprehension strategies to teach. This higher-level type of thinking occurs when students combine their own schema with information from the text to create a new level of understanding. This ongoing process takes place as a reader’s thinking is changed as he/she learns and grows. Synthesizing often occurs […]
This is an original assessment I created to test my students' level of understanding of first and second hand accounts of events in informational text. (RI.4.6. Compare and contrast a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic; describe the differences in focus and the information provided.) This 24 point, 4 page assessment encourages students to provide evidence found in the text to determine the focus of the author. They will compare, analyze, and create 1st and 2nd hand accounts in a variety of ways. A complete answer key is included.
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Setting student reading goals is so important, but we need to help students better understand how complex reading can be!
One of my favorite ways to introduce science concepts and dig a little deeper while also inspiring students is through read-alouds and a robust classroom library. This list includes my absolute favorite titles for 4th grade NGSS (Next Generations Science Standards). This list features affiliate links. Structure, Function, and Information Processing: 4LS1-1, 4LS1-2, and 4PS4-2 ... Read more
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This instructional bundle is for students reading at an elementary level or reading at 4th – 6th grade level. This bundle includes 30 Passages at the 700L - 1000L Level. All passages were professionally leveled by Lexile.
