I love anchor charts and use them daily. They are such a great tool in my classroom, for my students, as well as for myself. Read this blog post for ideas on how to create
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Hi bloggy friends! Here's a quick post with two freebies for you. The first is what I called "Spooky Suffixes." We used these in a literacy center and the kiddos basically played Concentration with the cards. You could easily use the cards to play Suffix Go Fish or just a simple matching game. Spooky Suffixes The next is a graphic organizer that I typed for my students to use with the Someone, Wanted, But, So, Then Summarizing Strategy. I was introduced to this strategy by Kathy Bumgardner (http://kbumreading.com/) six or so years ago and it's the best thing I've found to help my students summarize fiction stories. Some of my students don't need the actual organizer and create their own but others benefit from the help of the premade organizer. Hopefully, some of your kiddos can use it too! Summarizing OrganizerIf you download either document, please leave a quick comment on how you plan to use (or even improve on my idea). I love to hear feedback! Thanks and have a terrific week!
These visualizing and creating mental images graphic organizers are a must have for reading comprehension strategy instruction! Having the option of printable or digital graphic organizers is perfect for distance learning, because they can be used with any texts. They provide students plenty of opportunities to practice visualizing and creating mental images as they are reading. WHAT'S INCLUDED (Printable PDF and Google Slides™ Link): Posters: Visualize & Create Mental Images Reading Kid or "Dot Dude" Option (Both in Color or B&W) 9 Printable Graphic Organizers • "My Mind Picture" • "My Mind Movie" • Visualizing Sunglasses • Create Mental Images with Text Evidence • Visualizing Thought Bubbles • Changing Visualizations (First..Then..Finally...) • Using Your Senses to Visualize • Engage Your Emotions • Visualizing Story Elements Visualizing Activity Ideas This is 1 of 12 Reading Strategy Graphic Organizer Packs available at more than 50% off in the: Paper-Only Reading Comprehension Strategies Bundle Digital-Only Reading Comprehension Strategies Bundle Paper & Digital Reading Comprehension Strategies Bundle They are also included in the huge Reading Graphic Organizers Bundle (along with Nonfiction and Fiction Graphic Organizer packs)! More Reading Resources: Visualizing Reading Comprehension Crafts Reading Comprehension Strategies, Fiction & Nonfiction Graphic Organizers Bundle Visualizing Reading Passages Reading Fiction Graphic Organizers Reading Nonfiction Graphic Organizers Reading Posters & Anchor Charts Bundle © 2016 Raise the Bar Reading. Updated 2020.
Graphic organizers are timeless, versatile tools that support students in independently using reading comprehension strategies. A quality graphic organizer can be the difference between students using and understanding a comprehension strategy or not. WHY USE GRAPHIC
Teaching ideas, lesson plans, and free printables for upper elementary and middle school language arts, reading, and social studies teachers.
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Reading Comprehension can be difficult for student, even those with great reading skills. Support students by giving them the language they need.
I have a quick and simple tip for you today. Another teacher gave me this tip a few years ago and I love it! (I wish I remembered who gave me this tip and where they got the idea from so I could give the credit.) Do you ever start to give directions and you ... Read More about A quick classroom management tip
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
Asking questions is an important comprehension strategy for readers. Asking authentic questions encourages curiosity and engages the reader in the text. Students are more likely to be actively involved with the text when they are on the hunt for answers to their questions. It gives them a purpose for reading and promotes comprehension of that text. You want to begin teaching this strategy through an interactive read aloud in which you model and scaffold the strategy of asking questions. I use the text What Can a Citizen Do? to teach students how to ask questions before, during, and after reading an informational text. You should begin the unit by discussing what questions are. Creating a question can be difficult at first, so you will want to model for the students. I would begin by showing them photographs of citizens helping in their community. Ask students what they wonder about the photos. Jot down their questions on a whiteboard or an anchor chart. Point out to them the question words they used to begin their questions. You can then transition to the mentor text for the week, What Can a Citizen Do? Explain to students that good readers ask questions before they read a book. Point out the cover and various illustrations throughout the book. You can record their questions on your anchor chart. I also have students record at least one question in their journal. As we transition into reading the text, I strategically stop at various points in the book to model think alouds and create my own questions about what I am reading. Students will do the same. They keep their journals in their laps to record their own wonderings. At the end, they record any last questions they still have. We then discuss how to find the answers to our questions and the fact that sometimes our questions go unanswered. We then have to look at other texts or resources to find those answers. As we go throughout the unit, we discuss different types of questions. We also discuss strategies for answering questions, such as searching for text evidence like reading detectives. I also teach students that sometimes we have to make inferences when answering questions. I like to hang the posters below for student reference. Each daily task in response to reading leads up to this culminating task of answering questions. I have paired an additional text from www.getepic.com in which students make this sun craft and write things that a citizen does from the text. In the mentor text, the author says that a citizen can bring in light to others, so I thought rays of sunshine was a perfect depiction of this! I have created lesson plans for you that contains a mini-lesson for each day, text dependent questions, a daily task, and an exit ticket. You can simply print and teach! To ensure that I am super prepared for the read aloud, I print the questions that I plan to ask on sticky notes. These have helped me so much! Students will practice asking and answering questions on their own printables that we glue into our journals. Each day we focus on a different component of asking and answering questions in informational text. I always include a mentor sentence to incorporate into your interactive read aloud. I love this sentence from the book! You can have some big discussions on this topic and even create more questions to go along with that idea! Since so many are distance learning right now, I have created a digital version using Google Slides TM. It's included in the November Bundle or you can purchase it separately. These are very similar to the PowerPoint lessons I use in my classroom, but you can assign slides to your remote learners to complete the independent tasks each day. Just create another copy for each day of the week and delete the slides you don't want students to have. You can display the slides from the original copy during your live or recorded lessons. It will keep you on track and ensure you cover all components of the lesson. Here are the components included for each lesson! There are five days of lessons that include an agenda, learning target, success criteria, learning video and posters, vocabulary cards with tasks, read aloud, daily questions, daily tasks, exit ticket, wrap up, and self assessments for each of the five days! These are a lifesaver! This is such a wonderful book! It's a topic that so many can learn from. It also generates some great questions and conversations from students. :) What Can a Citizen Do? Interactive Read Aloud DIGITAL What Can a Citizen Do? Interactive Read Aloud November Printable and Digital Bundle November Digital Bundle
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This Step-by-Step POETRY DRAMA PROSE unit is a complete, STANDARD-BASED unit with a variety of activities scaffolded to help students learn an effective approach to identify, analyze, compare and contrast poetry, drama, and prose to increase reading comprehension. Through anchor charts, modeling, mentor text, differentiated passages and interactive pages, practice, task cards, and graphic organizers, students will have a thorough understanding of this standard. This step-by-step process is in the perfect scaffolding order so students can learn about poetry, drama, and prose at a deeper level and retain the skill. It now comes in PDF, POWERPOINT, AND GOOGLE. SEE THE PREVIEW FOR DIGITAL EXAMPLES
Increase reading comprehension with text connections! Seven engaging activities for
These summarizing activities and graphic organizers are no prep and are perfect for creating a learning experience for your students. Use these printable summarizing activities, graphic organizers, bookmarks, worksheets, and more to enhance your students' understanding. Can easily be used for sub plans or day, homework, extra aid for students, or a group activity. ALL THAT’S INCLUDED: 4 carefully crafted passages -2 fiction -2 nonfiction Printable Bookmarks with Reading Strategy Perfect to send home with books “On the Go” anchor charts
Four effective approaches for teaching reading comprehension strategies to 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade students.
Free Literacy Graphic Organizers from Laura Candler
Use this unit of study to give your students practice determining point of view in reading.
Increase reading comprehension with text connections! Seven engaging activities for
Graphic organizers are timeless, versatile tools that support students in independently using reading comprehension strategies. A quality graphic organizer can be the difference between students using and understanding a comprehension strategy or not. WHY USE GRAPHIC
Using animated shorts to teach ELA skills can be a fun way to engage students and practice skills in a way that allows students to see how another medium uses
Looking for differentiated summarizing activities? These summary anchor charts, activities, free lesson ideas, and modeled writing will help your upper elementary students master the art of writing.
Creative and hands-on Tomie dePaola book activities for teaching author's viewpoint, problem/solution, cause and effect and more.
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In this post, I'll talk about why teaching schema is important, give some ideas and tips for teaching about schema to your young readers, and discuss when we
I am really looking forward to getting into the swing of things this week. Tomorrow, we’ll be reading one of my favorite books of all-ti...
Maximize reading comprehension with the SQ3R strategy. Teach students how
Do you have trouble remembering to come back to the "L" of your KWL charts? These free interactive and printable KWL charts will be a tool you and your students use everyday!
The Sandwich Swap is a story about friendship, acceptance, and keeping an open mind. In this story, two girls learn that their friendship is much stronger than their differences. I want to share some activities you can pair with The Sandwich Swap.
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 table top and supporting details on the legs.
Free printables created by Laura Candler to aid teachers with their literacy circles in their classrooms to get students excited about reading.
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Graphic organizers are ways to organize information in a way that makes it more visible, more accessible, and easier to understand.
Seems simple, RIGHT? Read a chapter, write a summary… Our students see this a lot, whether it be on our reading assessments, in our own classroom work, or on our state assessments. Bottom line, we want our kids to be proficient (and feel confident) in taking out the important elements from a piece of text,...
