Visualizing the text is such an important strategy used for building your students’ reading comprehension. It is very versatile as it can be used in different ways with students of all ages and reading levels. I
These printable and digital making predictions graphic organizers are a must have for reading comprehension strategy instruction! They are perfect to use with any texts to provide students plenty of opportunities to make predictions as they are reading. WHAT'S INCLUDED (Printable PDF and Google Slides™ Link): Posters: Making Predictions Reading Kid or "Dot Dude" Option (Both in Color or B&W) 8 Graphic Organizers • Crystal Ball Prediction • Make a Prediction: Before Reading • Make a Prediction: During Reading • Make Predictions Using Text Clues • Pause & Predict • Pause & Predict with Text Evidence • Draw & Describe Predictions • Predictions & Outcomes Making Predictions 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)! © 2020 Raise the Bar Reading.
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
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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Having a wide vocabulary is a huge part of what helps students to be successful in both reading comprehension and writing. This is why vocabulary is one of the National Reading Panel’s five core elements
Having a wide vocabulary is a huge part of what helps students to be successful in both reading comprehension and writing. This is why vocabulary is one of the National Reading Panel’s five core elements
Working with words in a variety of ways helps build vocabulary. Grab free vocabulary graphic organizers for grades 3-5 on this post!
Get ready to CHA CHA through your introduction paragraph! Using the H.O.T. method, help your students master the organization of the dreaded intro! * NOTE: This is the STARTER kit! Includes notes and graphic organizer. Lessons, models, and samples to come! Like the HOT method? Be sure to get my HOOK Strategies poster! FISH HOOKS! ***** For more tips for your classroom, join the conversation below! Blog Twitter Facebook Pinterest Instagram And be sure to Follow Me!
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
Cause and effect is an essential reading skill that our readers need in able to adequately and effectively comprehend. It helps students understand how one event connects or leads to the next event. I thought it would be so fun to give my cause and effect resource a little makeover with a fun newsroom theme. Students will be reporters to report on the cause and effect relationships in the story. They will cover what happened (THE EVENT) and what made that event happen (THE CAUSE). These activities, anchor charts, and crafts will help you plan a mini room transformation for your students. Get ready to transform your classroom into a Cause and Effect News Studio! As far as transforming your room goes, I am all for less is more in this instance. You could cover their desk pods or tables with plastic tablecloths and lay the printable microphones on each student's spot. I included a banner that you can print to hang at the front of your room. You might want to make a backdrop up there, too, with bulletin board paper for when students do their reporting. You could also move a piece of furniture or some desks to that area for reporters to sit. I think it would be really cute if you dressed as a reporter and have students dress as one at the end of the unit for one final cause and effect news report. I give instructions in the resource on how to print the anchor chart as a poster. You can laminate this and use a dry erase marker on it when you go to model identifying cause and effect relationships in the text. The posters can be printed and hung near your anchor chart for student reference. For the opening activity, have students gather on the carpet. Explain to them what a cause and effect are and that they will be reporting on different cause and effect relationships in texts. Show them these picture cards all mixed up. Have students help you match the causes and effects and display them on your board or in a pocket chart. Model with the microphone how you might report on these events. I always tell students to identify the effect first and then to find the cause. I have found that this strategy is helpful for students. You really can use any fictional story for cause and effect, but there are some texts that just lend themselves well to teaching this reading skill. Some good ones include The Rain Came Down, A Bad Case of Stripes, any book by Doreen Cronin, Alexander and the No Good, Horrible, Very Bad Day, and any of the Laura Numeroff books. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs would be another good one, since it's about weather. Fictional books about weather events would be great for the news reports! For the first day, I would give each group one of these envelopes filled with the graphic organizers below. These are normally used for cooperative groups or centers and each will have its own text. I would actually read aloud one text for the whole class and then have students go prepare their news reports with their tables. There are two graphic organizers included, the first only has one cause and effect relationship and the other has three. You can choose what would be best for your students. After identifying the cause and effect relationships have each group come up front to deliver their news report. Have a discussion on whether or not students identified the same or a different relationship and explain that stories can have many different ones just like in real life. Use different texts each day so that students are exposed to more examples of cause and effect relationships. I have included different crafts and graphic organizers below that you could use each day. There are enough to even come back to cause and effect later in the year. I always strive to give you lots of options so that you can meet the needs in your classroom. The news report and microphone crafts are sure to get your students excited about cause and effect! After making these, you can hang them in your room to add to your room transformation. I tried to make these look like hats reporters would wear back in the day. I think they would be so fun for your students to wear after one of your lessons! For exit tickets, you can use these printables or have students use their whiteboards. I would display a short passage or story and have students identify a cause or effect. This will let you know if they understand the vocabulary of cause and effect. I actually changed this badges after taking this photo to press passes for students to have access to your newsroom throughout the week. Give students these bookmarks to use during their independent reading time to apply the skill. I always include these book club templates and discussion cards in case you have book clubs meet each week like I used to do. I miss them so much! Students would review the skill on Friday while eating popcorn and discussing the text that day. I hope you love this resource as much as I do! As I am updating all of my reading comprehension units, I am trying to add as many fun themes as possible. Up next is updating my point of view unit with a fun 70s theme! These themes are what keep me excited to teach and help aid in not being burnt out. It doesn't take much to get students excited, so you can make a transformation as small or as big as you want. My students would get excited just over the paper microphones! Ha! You can check out the resource HERE or by clicking on any of the photos. It is sold separately and in a BUNDLE. If you already own it, be sure to download it again. Thank you so much for reading!
Each classroom brings students of multiple learning styles and backgrounds. It is our job to provide opportunities that reach all of the many different learning styles that come to us. For this reason, it is
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Increase reading comprehension with text connections! Seven engaging activities for
These 44 free literature graphic organizers have been created to meet reading standards for 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades. Free from The Curriculum Corner.
With so many types and formats of writing that we ask of students, it can be overwhelming for them to know where to start, what kinds of language to use, and what the structure of
Today’s Wednesday, and that means it’s one day closer to being break for me. And for the rest of you, only three more days ’til the weekend! Today’s post offers you another …
Do you have elementary students in your homeschool? If so, you will find this FREE Elementary Reading & Writing Bundle so helpful! It’s full of useful homeschool printables for writing and reading assessment as well as reading comprehension. This limited time freebie will end on 4/26 so you will want to be sure to grab the...
We, as teachers, are always stopping while reading to ask students what is going to happen next. We want students to be able to stop and monitor their understanding of the text. This will, in turn, help with their comprehension of the story. I wanted to stop in today to share some new resources I am using in my classroom to help students with this strategy. I always like to start by introducing the strategy of the week with an anchor chart. Did you know you can print poster-size anchor charts from Adobe??!! This anchor chart is in my Making Predictions Pack, along with the directions on how to print posters from home or school. I also print mini-anchor charts for my students to put in their reading journals. We, together, create our anchor chart for the week. I usually use a read aloud as an example to add to our anchor chart so that I can model using the strategy. Students complete their own little anchor charts with me. This, my friends, is such a powerful tool for my students to anchor their thinking and take ownership of our anchor charts. :) I also have this little poster I hang as a reminder during read to self and partner for students. Students can be very apprehensive about making predictions. We know that they do not want to guess the wrong prediction, so it's important to have that conversation with them that it's okay to not always be right. We want them to feel comfortable using clues from the text to make their best predictions, along with their schema. Sometimes it's fun to be surprised by the author! I know that this book is perfect for encouraging students to make predictions in that safe environment. Enemy Pie by Derek Munson is a darling book that not only is perfect for practicing the strategy of making predictions, but it also teaches the importance of kindness. I like to stop during the reading and ask students what they think is in Enemy Pie? Do you think he's really going to give it to his enemy? I have students record their prediction on top of the pie in the craft below. You may want them to write their prediction with a pen, marker, or crayon, because they often want to change their prediction after finding out what actually happened. ;) After reading, they record what was actually in the pie underneath the flap. It's such a cute story and fun little craft that your students will love! At the end of the lesson, I showed this Pixar clip of Ormie the Pig. I stopped at 2:38 and asked students to predict whether or not Ormie was going to get the cookies this time. I gave them the option of a picture or words. They recorded their prediction on an exit ticket and placed it in the Prediction Pail. I found this idea at Kindergarten Boom Boom. It was just adorable and super fun! You can click the image below for this freebie label for you and your teammates. These are the exit tickets I used throughout the week. I switched it up each day and we threw them in the prediction pail or clipped on our round up clips. I also have students participate in a cooperative group activity. If time is an issue for you, you could have them do this during small group instruction or even during centers. It would also be a great early finisher activity students could easily grab and work on. I create 3 or 4 case files like the one below and fill each with graphic organizers and a book or passage. Students read the book or passage inside and complete the graphic organizer together. The first time I do this unit, I like to use all picture books. When I do this unit again, I might vary it with other books and passages. The great thing about my predictions pack is that you can use it over and over throughout the year. There are too many activities to fit in one week. I like to give them a page to stop at with a prediction question in the file. It gives them a purpose and keeps them focused. It's the "CASE" they have to solve! After reading, they record what actually happened. I also use this graphic organizer all throughout the week. I love to stick them in a Smart Pal to reuse again and again. Another day, just to switch it up, we used this interactive notebook template to record predictions about If You Took a Mouse to the Movies by Laura Numeroff. The following day, we read If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff focusing a little bit more on the clues students use from the text or illustrations to make predictions. These little mini-booklets are great to throw in a Read to Self tub for students to practice the strategy independently. And finally, my littles LOVE bookmarks! Like, can't get enough! These will help them remember to stop and predict while reading independently. You can check out this unit by clicking the images below. You can also check out my Interactive Anchor Charts below if you think that is something that might benefit you. It makes it much easier for me to have my anchor charts ready to print and go each week. Thanks for stopping by, friends! Have a great break!
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,...
Looking for a student and teacher-friendly version of graphic organizers and exit tickets for Into Reading? Want some cute graphics to spice them up instead of plain and boring? Looking for some different ways to have your kids record their thinking? This is the resource for you! Resource includes: graphic organizers concept map written responses/exit tickets vocabulary practice background knowledge research project wrap up project IDEAS FOR USE: Use the notebook as a resource for the whole group lesson Use for cooperative group work Use for independent work Use for exit tickets for formative assessments Why you need it: gives structure to your INTO READING lessons EASY - print and go! helps you know what your students know and need to know Check out my other HMH resources for second grade: Unit 4 Google Slides Unit 5 Google Slides Unit 6 Supplemental resources Unit 6 Google Slides Unit 6 Bundle Check out my other HMH resources for third grade: Unit 5 Student Notebook Follow me on Social Media Pinterest Facebook The Other Side of the Reading Rope Blog
This is a template to use as your students read a chapter book. It includes 3 different formats (with both boy and girl versions of each) to help your students comprehend each chapter as they read. It would be great to send home for Summer Reading assignments! We'd love to hear your feedback!
You deserve to finish planning and make it home before dark. This reading interactive notebook is the time-saver you need to provide engaging...
This reading response worksheet is ideal for practicing story elements, reading strategies, comprehension, text connection, author study, vocabulary work and so much more!
Help students plan and pre-write a narrative short story by following this blog post. Includes free graphic organizers and step-by-step directions.
Essential topics for an Ancient Greece Unit - key topics to cover on Ancient Greece for middle school or upper elementary.
Building background knowledge is like building a bridge. It’s meeting your students where they are and then continuing to build on what they already know. Eventually you guys will keep building until you reach mastery and that bridge is completely constructed. It is a crucial part of learning and helps students make meaningful connections so […]
As teachers {esp. k-3} we know how important "Making Words" activities are for our students. The manipulation of the letters and exploration of letter sounds and patterns are skills that all students need {and enjoy}. Which brings me to my next point...... My school is doing a huge "paper cut down" this next year and so we've been brainstorming ideas on how to save paper. Making words takes a new page of paper each time you do it! This folder cuts down on a lot of paper and is easy to make, use, and keep track of! Plus, you can keep the folders for YEARS and use them for many other activities {chunks, spelling, sight words, etc}. I got the inspiration from my previous guided reading folders {here}. The students use their letter in their folder {held in place by velcro} to make words. They pull down their letters to the bottom of the folder, in the rectangle, to make a word {see picture below}. Supplies: *Making Words Download {
Download these 40 free literature graphic organizers for intermediate students to be used in your 4th, 5th or 6th grade reading workshop.
Reading comprehension strategies for upper elementary and middle school - tips and tricks for teaching reading strategies.
Analyzing a character’s traits is an important fiction reading skill for readers of all ages. Character traits analysis helps students with: Comprehension: When students understand a character's traits, they can better grasp the character's role in
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...
Enhance your vocabulary instruction with this Vocabulary Graphic Organizers activities. These word work graphic organizers provide a wide range of graphic organizers, activities, and templates to support vocabulary development in your classroom. Perfect for working with vocabulary and vocabulary practice. These graphic organizers are designed to help your students think deeply about vocabulary. 22 pages will help your students make connections to challenging vocabulary. This set of graphic organizers is specifically designed to help students explore new vocabulary. With these visual tools, you can guide your students through the process of exploring, analyzing, and applying new words effectively. Students may use dictionaries, glossaries, or context clues in texts to complete the pages. The variety of graphic organizers will help engage your students and will keep your vocabulary lessons meaningful and fun! Vocabulary graphic organizers include topics such as: synonyms antonyms prefixes suffixes root words definitions parts of speech and more What's Included: 22 non-editable vocabulary graphic organizers (pdf) completed examples of many pages Don't Just Stop With Vocabulary Graphic Organizers! Grab these amazing reading graphic organizers for fiction and nonfiction too! ©️ Kelly Benefield
Graphic Organizers are a great tool in the classroom, but all too often these three mistakes get in the way. (Writing organizers included!)
