The Kim Dokja company (most of them) get teleported to some place along with a couple other constellations and such. They have no idea what's going on but maybe the pictures and stories can give them an idea of everything and things Kim Dokja hides, along with memes. P.s these pictures don't belong to me, contains major ORV spoiler. Trigger warning: Talking about death and well.. if you're bothered by that I suggest stopping right here.
The Kim Dokja company (most of them) get teleported to some place along with a couple other constellations and such. They have no idea what's going on but maybe the pictures and stories can give them an idea of everything and things Kim Dokja hides, along with memes. P.s these pictures don't belong to me, contains major ORV spoiler. Trigger warning: Talking about death and well.. if you're bothered by that I suggest stopping right here.
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This year, I revised the materials in my reader's notebooks. I'm using a combo of a binder and a notebook for reading workshop this year, and I'm not 100% happy with it. I thought I would share some of what I've been doing. Maybe you can help me tweak. Let me first tell you how I've been working it. In their binder, they have a section for anchor charts and handouts. There's an index where they write the title of the paper so they can see at a glance what they have. It' sort of like a mini version of my anchor chart binder, but they have only the few charts I give the entire class and the ones I give specifically to them as needed during conferencing. There's also a section in their binder to keep track of books they have read, books they want to read, and a genre tracker. Now, the notebook is more of our workhorse. The notebook is where they take notes during mini-lessons, jot their thinking about their independent reading, and write their weekly letter to me for assessment. These are the notebooks I use. I got them at Staples during the ten cent sale. My friends turn their notebooks in one day a week. This way I only have to read 4 or 5 a day rather than all 24 at once. As you can see, orange notebooks are due on Tuesdays. When you open the notebook, you will first find this page: I think the note is pretty clear. Our focus this year is all about thinking deeper about our reading. The next couple of pages give an example of friendly letter format and how to edit/proofread their letter. We edited "idea chart" to read "thinking stems" Next, there are facing pages that have the "thinking stems" we use. A reader had asked me to post a link to these, but I just can't find it. I pulled these pages from a file I've had for a few years. I know I originally found them on the web, but when I tried to find them again this year I couldn't. If you have ever run across these, please let me know where so I can credit the author. This is glued on to the left page of the notebook. The other pages is on the right side. I like them facing each other so they can see it all at once. For some reason, I took two half-page pictures of the other page, Update! (7/22/12) Special thanks to Marilyn who emailed me the link she found for these Thinking Stems. This link should take you to a Word document you can print out. I believe they are from the Calhoun School District, but again not sure. CLICK HERE TO GO TO DOCUMENT. These thinking stems are good for helping my friends who have difficulty coming up with something to write. I used them as a springboard when I modeled writing a reading response letter not just once, but twice for my friends. I will do more modeling of this as time goes on and I expect more from their letters. After these pages, I still have two blank pages. One is for a rubric that I have yet to put in their notebook. That's one of the things I've not yet figured out to my satisfaction. While the kids know what I'm looking for, I want a rubric in their notebook. The problem is I can't find one that fits exactly what I want and I've been too lazy busy to just sit down and make my own. I guess I'm going to have to just do it this weekend. The rest of their notebook is filled with notes from our mini-lessons, their independent writing about their reading, and their weekly reading response letter to me. It's actually all working pretty well so far, but I just have this gnawing feeling that I'm missing something. So, I'm throwing it out there to you! What are you doing with your reading notebooks? What do your friends do with their notebooks? Do you use a rubric? What and how are you assessing them? What's worked for you? By the way, don't forget to ENTER MY THANK YOU GIVE AWAY! There are only about 22 or so entries thus far, so the odds are pretty good! You have also been leaving some great ideas for picture books to use in mini-lessons. Click over and check out the comments. Even if you don't enter, you will get some great picture book suggestions.
As much as I love to read, sometimes I dreaded teaching reading. I was reading by four and everything in language arts came easily to me – it just clicked. When I had students that didn’t improve their reading with my strategies, I didn’t understand why. Now that I am working with my son, I […]
Howdy! Jen Bradshaw here from Teacher Karma. Thinking strategies to improve reading comprehension Reading without meaning is like eating pizza without cheese....and NOBODY wants that! So how do we get our students to make connections to the text, think while they are reading, and focus on what is most important......MEANING?? When I was in the classroom, I had great success with using the following anchor chart, Reading is Thinking. It is a great way to kick off a mini-lesson by presenting the thinking strategies that they will be learning about and USING EVERY DAY...really for the rest of their lives. Reading strategies to improve comprehension In my opinion, the 6 most important reading strategies are: asking questions predicting summarizing visualizing inferencing making connections Never try and do all of these strategies in one day! Depending on the grade level you teach, you may want to spend a whole week on each thinking strategy before moving on to the next one. If you would like to pick up your freebie and learn more about strategies to improve your student's comprehension, click here please. :) Best wishes!
The Kim Dokja company (most of them) get teleported to some place along with a couple other constellations and such. They have no idea what's going on but maybe the pictures and stories can give them an idea of everything and things Kim Dokja hides, along with memes. P.s these pictures don't belong to me, contains major ORV spoiler. Trigger warning: Talking about death and well.. if you're bothered by that I suggest stopping right here.
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Vocabulary instruction is so critical in today’s classroom! A vast vocabulary will help students to become better readers and writers. Vocabulary is also essential to their performance on standardized tests. Helping kids to develop their vocabulary is time that is well spent in a busy classroom. I have developed a routine to teach new vocabulary
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Help your students avoid the STUCK feeling when writing about their reading! Reading responses do NOT have to be challenging when you can use sentence stems to get your students started. These reading response posters are great as a wall display, a reference ring, or for your students’ interactive notebooks. Each chart gives students multiple ways to begin their written responses to eliminate starting each response the same way. These charts will also assist all students (general education, special education, and ESL) with orally responding. This resource will help differentiate your students’ needs and will have your students feeling a lot less overwhelmed when responding to texts. Here's what you'll get: 2 Different Size Options Color Accents AND Black and White Options 80+ Sentence Starters 12 Chart Categories to include: My Prior Knowledge Asking Questions Making Predictions Summarizing Visualizing Making Connections Inferring Characters Evaluating Text Monitoring & Clarifying Author’s Craft Reflection Your students will feel empowered with these charts as they realize they CAN respond to their reading. These stems will give your students the small boost they need to accurately show YOU their comprehension and mastery of reading skills & reading strategies. These are also great to use as a differentiation tool to give help to readers who feel stuck and do not know where to start. Prep is so simple... Just print the size you need and go! Ways to Use: Whole group discussion stems Interactive reading notebooks Guided reading (written response or discussion stems) In a picture frame at your guided reading table On binder rings (portable use) On your classroom wall (large anchor charts) TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID… ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Jennifer Ellsworth. says, "This resource helps students of all reading, writing, and speaking levels feel more confident when answering text-based questions. I use it often in both whole and small-group instruction." ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Nadia B. says, "These sentence stems are perfect to help my students with writing written responses. They are stuck with how to begin. I printed the small versions and we put them inside the plastic protectors for collection cards." ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Meridy W. says, "This resource was helpful as a reference tool for my students as they learn to write essays and recall information from their independent reading books. Thank you!" ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Tammika T. says, "This is a great resource for providing additional instructional support during the ELA block. I use this product with small groups to help structure their writing incrementally. The organizer is a great anchor for students to refer back to in their Seed Notebooks as they continue to work independently to strengthen their writing abilities and produce high-quality work." You may also like… → Reading Trifolds → Reading Strategies Charts → Reading Graphic Organizers → Reading Response Stem Cards (Set 1 + 2) Copyright © The Literacy Dive. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.
We all know that every child's journey to become a reader is different. What is simple for one may be incredibly difficult for another, some are great with phonics instruction, others seem to sail right through sight words, and others yet can read the words, but have a hard time with understanding what they're reading. How on earth are you supposed to teach a room full of children who are all unique and at different points on their reading journey? You differentiate. You may have 3-4 reading groups, you may have 6-7 reading groups (yes, I did that), you may pull students for 1-1 instruction, or small group instruction with a group that needs to work on a particular concept. Today I thought I'd show you some simple ways to use a single reading resource many ways, that is, to differentiate. I'm going to focus today on emergent readers. UNC defines an emergent reader as: "Child on the path to fluent literacy, before conventional reading and writing skills emerge. Emergent readers demonstrate alphabet knowledge, a concept of what a word is, a sense of story (beginning, middle, end), listening and retelling skills, phonemic awareness, and verbal expression." Here's an example of some text you might use with an emergent reader. It has a limited number of words, uses mostly sight words, and has pictures that clearly match the sentences. You'll notice the text has a repeating pattern, in this case, "I see a red __" The book I took this from has 6 sentences with this pattern, one to a page, plus a final page without the last word on it, for the children to add in their own word and picture. Once children are familiar with the text pattern from the book, you can have them match the sentences and pictures. Start with just a couple, and work your way up. You can also separate the words in a sentence and have students pay close attention to each word in order to put the words in the correct order. This is a great time to point out that sentences start with capital letters (so the word "This" must be first) and end with punctuation (so the word yellow must be last). Children will look at the first letter in each word to help them decode the word, and need to think about what makes sense. They may notice that the first word in each sentence is the same, or point out the pattern the sentences are based on. If they struggle with one of these words, you might want to point out other instances of the word - preferably in a sentence they've already read. I find that children are much more likely to engage with the text if they have the opportunity to "play" with it, so I make word and picture cards large enough for students to manipulate easily. I usually use mine in a pocket chart. Just think of the fun children can have putting the words in the wrong order to create crazy "sentences" - and the reading and thinking about the words necessary to do so! If you are working on skills like this with more than one child, challenge them to work together to make the sentences, or to scramble them up for each other. My students LOVED taking turns scrambling and decoding sentences. You can even have them dictate and illustrate additional sentences that fit the pattern, and let them scramble and decode those! As students gain skills and confidence, you can challenge them with more text at once... ... including multiple scrambled sentences. Here I've combined both of these techniques: several sentences need to be unscrambled, and then the matching picture can be found and placed with each one. Notice that these are still predictable sentences that follow a pattern, and that the pictures still correlate closely to the text. By varying the number of sentences children are working with, whether the words are in order or scrambled, and whether the pictures are with the sentence or scrambled separately, you can manage the difficulty level for different children - or the same child, on different days. This is the most challenging level I've come up with for this kind of text. I've scrambled both the pictures and the words for multiple sentences, and have provided the text in book form for students to refer to as they put everything in order. Look how much more challenging this is than the other ways of differentiating listed above! By the time students can work with the text at this level, they've most likely mastered the sight words used in the text, and will be able to identify those words in other places. (In other words, they're really reading!) When working with children like this, it's important to look at what they CAN do, and to build on the skills already in place. A child who already knows the sight words in a text probably doesn't need to match pictures to sentences, just as a child who is working to put a single sentence in order will only be frustrated if you scramble several at once. You want them to enjoy the experience of working with words, as well as to learn new things! These techniques will work with almost any emergent reader text, but if you are interested in the texts I've used in this post, they are all part of this resource, including the word and picture cards for children to manipulate: I'd love to hear how you differentiate for your emergent readers - share your tips in the comment section below!
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