Help your students build their reading endurance with our Reading Stamina Chart featuring a Bookworm! This engaging tool is perfect for motivating young readers to track their reading time and celebrate their progress with each milestone reached. What’s Included: A printable worm chart with minutes marked on each segment. As students reach their reading milestones, they get to color in the corresponding minutes, providing a visual and interactive way to track their progress. Bookworm bookmarks to encourage daily reading and remind students of their reading goals. A built-in reading fluency tracker that helps monitor students’ reading progress over time, ensuring they develop strong reading habits. Poster-sized options of the bookworm, ideal for classroom displays to create a vibrant, reading-focused environment. Black and white options are available for easy printing and coloring customization, allowing students to make their charts uniquely theirs. An editable version with the word "minutes" included, so you can easily add your own milestones and customize the chart to fit your classroom needs. This Reading Stamina Chart is perfect for encouraging students to increase their reading time and develop a love for reading. Whether you're using it for independent reading time, in reading centers, or as part of a classroom challenge, this tool helps promote reading fluency and stamina in a fun, visual way. Yara
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Find fantastic resources for teaching inferences (with free mini lesson). The resources are ideal for 4th graders but also features ideas for grades 1-3.
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Enjoy this Author's Purpose Anchor Chart freebie!
This blog post has helpful information on how to teach character in elementary grades. There are activities and ideas for teachers!
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Understanding characters can be tricky! Learn my favorite strategies for helping students master character traits and changes.
This print-and-go reading comprehension worksheet can be used as an anchor chart, individual activity, or as a quick exit ticket. Students write the main idea on the umbrella and supporting details below.
As adults, we often walk into a bookstore with a certain genre we are ready to peruse the aisles for in order to find our next read. Would your students be able to do the
Are your students being discourteous to school furniture? This resource provides fun, interactive activities to encourage students to think critically and understand the consequences of their behavior. WHAT'S INSIDE:Chairs on Strike includes a mentor text link to an original story by Jennifer Jones, teaching students why it's important to show respect for school property. Plus, the pack provides differentiated graphic organizers, a cause and effect anchor chart, a chair apology letter template, a problem and solution graphic organizer, a vocabulary worksheet, and two interactive coloring pages or posters for the classroom. Help your students learn to be respectful of school furniture with Chairs on Strike! By engaging with the activities included in this resource, students will better understand the consequences of mistreating their school property and will gain valuable writing skills, such as persuasive writing. This resource is easy to use, effective, and sure to help your students gain a greater appreciation for school property and display more respectful behavior.
Do you hate to teach poetry? Do you want your students to learn and enjoy poetry? Try these simple ways to learn how to teach poetry...
Anchor charts that will engage your students while they learn about identifying the author's purpose in a nonfiction text!
My new obsession this year has been making and using anchor charts for my lessons. Here are just some of the anchor charts I have made this year. Some of these charts are original ideas but many are ideas I have seen and used from other teachers. I am not good at drawing so I use clipart from my computer to add pictures to my anchor charts. I print them out and glue them onto the chart! It’s so much easier and looks so much better than what I could draw! I also laminate my anchor charts so I can use them year to year. By laminating the charts I can easily write and erase on them by using an Expo marker. Click HERE to download the worksheet writing templates for opinion writing, informative writing, step writing, personal narrative writing, fictional narrative writing, and postcard writing that match these anchor charts from my TpT store! Click HERE to download the files needed to make the Sequence of Events and Transitional Word Examples anchor charts from my TpT store! Click HERE to download the file needed to make the Fiction/Non-Fiction Sort anchor chart from my TpT store! Click HERE to download the words I used on these anchor charts on my TpT store!
Do you look on Pinterest for Anchor Chart ideas and give up at the thought that your Anchor Chart could never look that amazing? It actually doesn’t have to be that difficult to make an amazi…
When teaching narrative writing in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade, there are so many writing skills to cover. They range from creating a sequence of events (beginning, middle, and end) to more difficult
Find resources for teaching story elements to kindergarten, first, second, and third grade students including books and hands-on activities.
This is an anchor chart about the features of fables. This comes from a fable genre study packet with activities that work with any fable: Fable Genre Study Packet
Teaching text features to your primary students should be fun and engaging for your students. See many activities and suggestions!
Kids love these engaging biography research projects with ready-to-go writing templates and hands-on biography activities!
This is a reading anchor chart of who, what, where, when, why, and how in a question mark shape. There are 4 different color themes, one of which is just white with black writing so that you can make it match your room theme.
Learn how to create mini anchor charts for your classroom using IKEA frames. These serve as a great visual for your students to refer to daily.
As a literacy teacher, teaching my students the importance of reading is my entire day. My students make huge transitions in reading during their second grade year. They move from learning to read and begin reading to learn. It's so important to set reading expectations. As a result, you'll see huge improvements! Find out how
Teaching and practicing reading strategies with students encourages active reading and critical thinking. When students successfully use reading strategies while reading, they are more engaged, and therefore better comprehend what they are reading. Making connections
Who doesn't love a good scavenger hunt? Here are 3 ways to harness the engaging power of scavenger hunts in practicing text features. Includes a reusable, FREE printable!
I took this idea from a handout provided by WE are TEACHERS and ReadyGen of PearsonSchool.com I loved the detective and the them...
Study about shoes through these shoe themed activities and worksheets for primary grades. These shoe theme activites and worksheets will spice up your unit.
"Today, we're going to write an autobiography in class. Okay, I want you to take ten minutes and brainstorm as much as you can about your life then write a one page paper. You will start with an introduction, and the body of your paper will be in chronological order, beginning with your earlier childhood and evolving into who you are, and who you want to become. You must have a catchy ending as well. Got it? Good! You may begin." (As I stare upon overwhelmed, confused, and stressed fifth graders...) Hmm... What did I do wrong? What I said made COMPLETE sense to me! Let's take a step back and evaluate my approach. Do you think that this approach will produce amazing autobiographies? Or will it be a jumbled mess? I'm opting for the second. Why? BECAUSE I saw it happen! I have been teaching since 2007...not including my subbing time, and time spent in college. I have come to find, like many of us do, that the success in a lesson can single-handedly depend upon our approach and introduction to a topic. No, I didn't start my lesson on writing autobiographies like this. :) I may have done these things in bits and pieces, but they were spread out and with explanations and examples. I start with reading an autobiography. We started with our basal reader, and the story of William Joyce Scrapbook. This story is all about this author/illustrator and how his life evolved into one that celebrates creativity, as well as how he gets inspired for new projects. To do something well, it helps for our students to SEE and/or LISTEN to a finished product. I always provide a visual aid and classroom discussion on how to approach the task. I LOVE anchor charts! Here's the one that I created for this project: I love to make my anchor charts bright and fun to look at. I believe that it engages my students, and almost lures them into reading them top to bottom. I also provide a structure. I like something tangible that they can write on. I gave my students this print out to engage their thoughts. The size of the blocks allowed them to focus on the most important details. You can grab a copy of this worksheet HERE. Don't get me wrong, we love to do messy brainstorming sessions, where we spend a great deal of time making notes, organizing our thoughts, and creating webs that guide our work. They are a wonderfully messy, yet organized way of pulling details out of us. Oxymoron?...maybe...but that works, too! This works really well for introductions and conclusions. If your students are anything like mine, this is where they struggle. I get the same, "Hi! My name is John Doe. I am writing about myself, so sit back, relax, and learn all about me!" BORING. I have a bulletin board that is dedicated to "Bold Beginnings," "Mighty Middles," and "Exciting Endings." I'm sure you've seen them...they look like this: I put these babies to work! They really ARE great conversation starters. I think it's SO important to SHARE what we have created with one another. We provide constructive criticism on what we liked, or ways that we could improve something that we hear. It's a form of friendly competition in my classroom. Who can create the boldest beginning, or the most exciting ending? I'm also the type of teacher that says..."Eh...not exactly what I'm looking for here. Let's try this!" I tell my kiddos that it takes great practice and care in creating a perfect paper. The first copy, the second copy, and possibly even the third, fourth, and fifth copy may need to be tweaked a bit. I stress that we... And that it's okay! ************************************************************ I want to take a minute to talk about the actual assignment I gave to my students. I LOVE a good at-home project to get our parents to sit down with their kiddos to work on something together. This works for the most part. I know...I know...there are students who just don't have a great home life. I'm blessed with students this year, who even in a broken home, have someone that is willing to pitch in and make the most of what it is that they are to do. You use common sense and assign these assignments based on the needs of your students. So, I started with a letter describing that we were reading an autobiography in class and that the students were working on writing their very own. I sent that home, along with a skin-colored piece of construction paper and directions for making a crafty student model to accompany their writings. I'm never quite sure how these assignments will turn out, but I was pleasantly surprised with the results! I loved seeing how students viewed themselves. Have a look! These are just a couple that came back. Have a look at our hallway... So cute! Overall, this lesson was a great success! I would be lying if I said that our grammar was 100% perfect, but that's certainly something that we're working on...and that's OKAY! The point is that we are writing. We are working through the writing process and becoming more alert of our mistakes, as well as recognizing when we should celebrate our creativity! What about you?? What have you done lately in your classroom to help promote the writing process? I'd love to hear how you make your students better writers! Let's talk in the comments below! Take a peek at what else I'm up to... Bloglovin' Facebook Pinterest TpT My Blog
These anchor charts are aligned to the NEW TEKS. Each page shows grade level (2nd-5th) specific expectations of what to know for Author's Purpose and Craft. They can be used to review the elements of Author's Purpose and Craft whenever you read a new book or passage. ***Interactive Reading Wall***Au...
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Typical uses of anchor charts in bilingual literacy centers to boost student reading interaction, classroom procedures, and visual reminders.
Are you lacking the creative skills to draw your own anchor charts? Don't stress over having a perfectly drawn, colorful anchor chart. This post will show you how to take a PDF anchor chart and make it poster size! It is easy and just as effective! STEPS TO MAKING
I mean...why WOULDN'T you use cootie catchers in your reading block? It makes perfect sense. Ok - remember last week how I was talking about doing a little spring cleaning with some of my TpT resources? Well, I did a little spring cleaning in my file folders on my computer as well. Yikes. Now THAT'S a bit of a rabbit hole. I got in a little deeper than I wanted to, but I figured I might as well finish the job. I got rid of a lot (a LOT) of cringe worthy products that just didn't make the cut anymore, and I got some major organizing done as well. BUT - you know what I found? THIS >>> It's a reading comprehension cootie catcher that I TOTALLY forgot I made! And since it resurfaced for me - I thought I'd resurface it for you! I'm sure I made it for you guys in the first place, but I can't for the life of me find it anywhere on the blog. There's actually 3 different versions. They have different comprehension questions that can be used with any fictional book. They work great as a quick partner review game. You can download them here! Find any long-lost things in your spring cleaning, lately? Pin and Share this freebie:
