"How do I teach writing in a dual language classroom?" A big part of my job now is mentoring other teachers, and one of the most common questions I get from
Linking up with Doodle Bugs for "Five for Friday Saturday"! I have a good excuse for being late though- we had Open House last night until 8pm...and if you all can imagine how it feels to be at school until 8pm...you can imagine my bed was the only place calling my name when I arrived home! So here goes...5 randoms from my busy week! 1. Alphabet Countdown - We started our annual "Alphabet Countdown" as a school on Tuesday. "A" was for "Show your Appreciation" to you teacher! I love the "From one princess to another..." card. Too cute! (We are on "E" Monday!) 2.) We have been working on main idea/details all week. One of my students bought me the most adorable book at the book fair last week called "What if You had Animal Teeth?" which I thought would be perfect for practicing this concept. Each kiddo created their own little "mouth/teeth" organizer to retell the important parts of the text! 3.) "Super Gallon Man" arrived to teach us all about equivalent units for capacity! 4.) We wrote acrostic poems for addition adjective practice! (And to answer your question, no it is not a crack in his tooth, it is shining!) You can grab a copy of the acrostic poem template here. 5.) And we set up our poems in our chairs and cleaned our room on Friday to prep for Open House that night! I must say...they were the most well-behaved students I have ever had! I even "hung out" for the evening at my guided reading chair to man the "class books" area ;)! Feel free to check out other "Five for Fridays or Saturdays" and link up your own from the week!
A blog about teaching 4th grade reading and writing in a dual language classroom.
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As a teacher, you know the struggle of trying to call you students back! With these attention getters in Spanish, you can quickly use these call and response
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This unit is great for the beginning of the year activities The passage is geared towards 3rd and 4th grades but the other activities can be used in all grades. n this unit you will get: Passage Writing activities Task cards Vocabulary cards Behavior chart for bucket fillers
Are you ready to conquer the challenge of teaching dual language reading comprehension in a bilingual or Spanish immersion class? Let's dive in and unpack six
As a teacher, you know that a little community building goes a long way! This free bilingual icebreaker is ideal for the Spanish immersion or dual immersion
Do you know how to teach guided reading in Spanish? Here are some ways that it is different from teaching guided reading in English.
We have been talking a lot about good fit books in class. These posters have been really helpful in getting the ideas across. I used to do the shoe lesson in daily five, but I really think this bike analogy makes a lot of sense to the kids and can be up on the wall all year. The kids helped me fill in the words and I added this face as we talked about each one. This was an idea I had seen shared a bunch on Pinterest!
Hey, everyone! To celebrate the 100th day in my 4th grade Spanish immersion activity, we did a language poster activity that I believe you could adapt for English, too. What I Did: 1) I grabbed different colors of construction paper and folded each one into ten sections (I did a hotdog fold and then a …
Welcome back to my blog, friends! Today we are discussing Spanish reading fluency! As a second grade teacher, it is vital to have my students practice their fluency on a daily basis. At this point, they are still learning to read and are making the transition to reading to learn. It is common to see that most students who are struggling with fluency will most likely struggle with comprehension. Therefore, practice is the key for building fluency. When I work with my fluency intervention groups, I target independent practice, small group activities, technology, and independent writing activities all using the fluency phrases below. Keep reading but make sure to subscribe to my email newsletter HERE. You will receive a FREE Spanish prefixes unit with a fluency sheet just for signing up and joining my email club! There are 80 phrases: 8 levels with 10 phrases each that the students practice and master to go to the next level. There is a lot of repetition and different types of practice for every learner. PowerPoint slideshow: I like to use this during our breakfast time. As students are eating, I time the slideshow to project the phrases on the screen for daily practice. Trying to fit in as much as I can all in a day’s worth! :) Flash cards: These are put on rings. I have all 80 in one ring for those students that can easily handle all the fluency phrases. I also have them divided by level for those that I want to practice a specific level. Writing: I like to use these worksheets because I am targeting two skills in one: fluency and handwriting. I can easily slip these inside a sheet protector or dry erase sleeve to use over and over again! Finally, the most important aspect of this fluency packet: assessment and progress monitoring. There is a student form, I only print one of these and enough copies of the checklist. I include a graph for students to monitor and color in their own progress. I test my students every 6 weeks, but also included a graph with more date slots just in case. Head on over to my TPT store to download a PREVIEW of these activities and see if they are a fit for your students! How do you target fluency in your classroom? I’d love to hear from you in the comments below. Until next time friends!
I feel more like a blog stalker than a blogger lately. I've been reading The Daily 5, but then when it comes time to link up I get lost in OPP (other people's posts), and FORGET ABOUT IT if I hop on over to a Daily 5 Pinterest board, I get lost for hours. Any...ways... we adopted the Common Core so I was planning to meet my Kinder Team this summer and plan our units, but I'm moving on up to First Grade. I mentioned the Daily 5 book study online, so we're planning some D5 things out together. (Click the pic below, way below;) if you'd like a copy of a checklist we put together). 1. Establish a gathering place for brain and body breaks. I've always had a whole group carpet area, but I've got my eye on one of these and it would incorporate my love for polka dots. I don't call it anything special, but we sing a cute song about going to the carpet. 2. Developing the concept of "good fit" books I love the concept of using Goldilocks and the 3 bears, (especially because we have it readily available in Spanish). Thank you Tammy for your freebie! I'm going to work on one in Spanish for my teammates. 3. Create anchor charts with students I love creating anchor charts with my students. I like to have them visible around our whole group area where we discuss strategies, phonics, etc. After we work on a new chart, I would usually try to place it up high on my teaching wall/carpet area bulletin board so that we can easily make references it. 4. Short, repeated intervals of independent practice and setting up book boxes I love the book boxes from IKEA! They're cheap enough that I wouldn't mind replacing every year, the kids can decorate them, and did I mention they're cheap? I love Kindergarten, Kindergarten, she has some really cute ideas, and I love how she put kids pix on the boxes, so Kinder friendly and just plain adorable! 5. Calm Signals and check in procedures I've used Whole Brain Teaching class signals and have loved them. But I don't think it would be as calm as using a xylophone or chimes. As far as check in procedures I think I'm going to do some blog stalking and get some ideas. :) 6. Using the correct model/incorrect model approach for demonstrating appropriate behaviors. I absolutely love the idea of stopping when I see an inappropriate behavior so that students are not practicing wrong, practice makes permanent. And now for your freebie, hope you can use :)
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A blog about teaching 4th grade reading and writing in a dual language classroom.
We spent the better first half of our year really focused on different strategies for thinking while we read (aka. metacognition). Here are...
In the dynamic world of bilingual education, fostering effective communication is at the heart of every classroom. For teachers working with Spanish learners,
Let's dive into the world of dual language vocabulary strategies and how we can use them to improve our students' comprehension in their second language. As
I first read The Daily Five in the summer of 2006. I had just finished my Masters in Reading and was ready to implement all sorts of new ideas. I loved the book and spent June and July dreaming up ways to rearrange my classroom. I even bought a super ugly but comfy chair off of Craigslist. My husband thought the guy should have paid us to take it from him instead of vice-versa but I knew my students would love it. August came and I was asked to leave my classroom and work as the bilingual facilitator for my district. While I was excited about my new job, I was sad to leave my dreams for my classroom behind and sad to not have the opportunity to implement the Daily Five with my own students. From all of the teacher blogs that I visit, the Daily Five is still very much alive! How's that for a rhyme? This past fall, while I was coaching in another school district, I found this Kinder teacher beginning implementation of the Daily Five with her little ones. These pictures were taken on September 20th. I think that is impressive! In the past few weeks, I have come across these bilingual blogs with resources and thoughts about implementing the Daily 5 in both Spanish and English: http://multilingualmultiage.blogspot.com/2012/06/dual-daily-five-i-pick-en-espanol.html http://dualkinderteacher.blogspot.com/2012/06/daily-5.html http://firstgradewithatwist.blogspot.com/2011/10/daily-five-success.html http://thesecondgradesuperkids.blogspot.com/2012/07/super-five-bookmarks.html (added 7/23/12) Have you written a post about implementing the Daily 5 in your bilingual or dual classroom? Please leave me a comment here and I will add you to my list!
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The new STAAR test includes an expectation for students to be able to understand and analyze literary texts including poetry. This is from the 3rd Grade STAAR document from TEA: Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Poetry. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to (A) describe the characteristics of various forms of poetry and how they create imagery (e.g., narrative poetry, lyrical poetry, humorous poetry, free verse). Supporting Standard I was in a third grade bilingual class just before Thanksgiving and snapped a picture of this poem that was taped to the white board. Isn't this great evidence of understanding and analysis? I wasn't there for the lesson but it is obvious that the teacher was noting her thinking along with the class's input as they carefully read and analyzed the poetry. This is exactly what we would want the student's poem to look like on the test so it is important that the students see us model this and gradually release the pen over to them. This isn't just the type of work we expect for STAAR, this is college-preparation! Bring on Neruda! Bring on Machado! We are ready!
This product includes interactive notebook activities in Spanish for all of the 3rd grade Common Core reading comprehension standards, both literature and informative texts. While it is aligned specifically with the 3rd grade standards, it could be adapted and used in other elementary Spanish reading classrooms as well. The interactive activities included in this product are related to the following skills: Literature: Questions - Preguntas Retelling stories – Recontar cuentos Message – Mensaje Characters - Personajes Rhythm - Ritmo Story Structure – Estructura de un Cuento Point of View – Punto de Vista Illustrations – Ilustraciones Comparing Stories – Comparar Cuentos Informative Texts: Questions – Preguntas Main Theme and Details – Tema Principal y Detalles Describe the text – Describir el texto Words and Phrases – Palabras y Frases Features of informational text- Caracterícas de los Textos Informativos Images – Las imágenes Author’s Reasons – Las Razones del Autor Comparing texts – Comparar Textos Check out the preview for some samples of some of the activities. This product also works well in conjunction with my bilingual Interactive Notebook for Launching Reading Workshop. You can check out that listing here: Interactive Notebook for Launching Reading Workshop I also have interactive reading notebooks in Spanish for other grades. You can find those listings here: 1st Grade Spanish Interactive Reading Notebook 2nd Grade Spanish Interactive Reading Notebook 4th Grade Spanish Interactive Reading Notebook Gracias! Liz Keywords: tercero, lectura, comprension, cuaderno interactivo, estandares communes, grado, literatura, textos informativos
Having enough time and the right resources to teach your students to read in Spanish can be frustrating. You may be required to provide individualized intervention to struggling students in your bilingual or immersion classroom and not know where to start. I have made a post with some intervention ideas and pictures that should help ... Read More about Spanish Reading Intervention Ideas
Are you ready to conquer the challenge of teaching dual language reading comprehension in a bilingual or Spanish immersion class? Let's dive in and unpack six
Enseña la metáfora, el símil, la personificación, la onomatopeya y la hiérbole a tus estudiantes con estas creativas actividades. Incluye: Presentación en PowerPoint de las figuras literarias. Tres estilos de carteles o pósteres de 6 tipos de lenguaje figurado. Dos estilos de plegables para definir o escribir ejemplos de lenguaje figurado. Un mini libro de pestañas, "tab book", con ejercicios para reforzar cada concepto. Versión digital del mini libro de pestañas. *********************************************************************************************************** Otros recursos que te pueden interesar: Recursos de escritura Partes de la oración Mini libro de pestañas (Spanish grammar tab book) *********************************************************************************************************** Sabías que puedes obtener créditos en TPT para usar en futuras compras: En la parte inferior de la página del producto se te brinda la opción de proveer feedback. Una vez completes este feedback TPT te dará un crédito que podrás usar en futuras compras. Valoro tu opinión ya que me ayuda a determinar que productos son los de mayor valor a tu clase. Si tienes alguna pregunta o sugerencia utiliza la pestaña Product Q & A y con gusto haré mi mayor esfuerzo para complacerte. ************************************************************************************************************* Se el primero en enterarte de mis nuevos recursos, especiales y freebies: solo haz un click Follow (Sigue mi tienda)
