O, the Oprah Magazine, presents the best books released in 2020—from Elena Ferrante to Raven Leilani, this is the best fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and more.
Here is the beginning of the Mastering Mentor Sentences Series with Collaboration Cuties! I told you about the book Dandelions last week in this post about mentor texts. As I mentioned, I use the book for reading and writing, with social studies integration, too… and I’m here to tell you I also used it for my […]
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One of the appeals of the reading, writing, and arithmetic mantra is that learning these skills, at least in theory, doesn’t require teachers to address too many contemporary controversies.
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
Every year I am shocked by my students' underdeveloped vocabulary. They struggle with reading comprehension because of their limited understanding of words. Their writing can be very drab because of their limited word choice. And when it comes time for standardized testing they often struggle with understanding what is being asked of them because of
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Welcome back to our 10 week series on Reading Comprehension Strategies! So far, we’ve covered using your schema, making connections, making predictions, and inferring word meanings. Today, we will cover visualizing, also known as making mental images while reading poetry. If you’re new to this series, I would encourage you to read our introductory post. These ... Read More about Visualizing- Making Mental Images with Poetry
Once we teach students about goals and the importance of them in our lives, we can use the accompanying language in all aspects of their, and our own, learning.
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I am going to post a few more pictures of my language arts interactive notebook that I took a couple of weeks ago. I have been posting a fe...
Are you looking for ways to help students dig deeper into their reading? These charts will help you! I provided all three to use for differentiating or progressive learning. 3 versions: 1. KWL 2. KWHL 3. KWHLAQ Each are available with lines and no lines. Thank you for visiting my store! Pam Other resources I find helpful for critical thinking: Higher Level Thinking Printables Reading Response Notebooks Poetry Analysis through Lyrics Writing Poetry in all Subjects
I'll let you in on a little secret about me. I absolutely love teaching nonfiction. I'll let you in on a second secret about me, I didn't really have any feelings towards nonfiction until last year. My action research project for my Masters program revolved solely around the importance of nonfiction in the elementary classroom. After reading gobs and gobs (gobs x 100) of research on nonficion, I quickly grew to love it. After our Jaguar unit, I wanted to dip into nonfiction a bit. So, guess what? We did. Have you heard of Stephanie Harvey? Most of you probably have, you may even own this book -- Well, I used Harvey's book Nonfiction Matters to develop a little quick review on nonfiction for my kids. Here's an overview of what we did. Day one: Anchor Chart! Woot woot. I love anchor charts too. We answered the age old question, "Why do we read nonfiction?"According to Harvey, here are some stellar reasons WHY we actually read nonfiction: Yes, I spelled acquire wrong. Whoops! Day Two: We tackled those pesky expository text structures. Harvey suggested using an example of "goosebumps" for each text structure. As a class, we created a foldable and labeled each type of text structure. Then, inside the flap, students wrote down and illustrated an example of the text structure with goosebumps. Make sense? Not quite? Okay, let me back up. For example, one expository text structure is cause and effect. We wrote the follow example: "The temperature dropped to 45 degrees. I got goosebumps." This is an example of cause and effect. Harvey lists an example of each structure relating it back to goosebumps. It was an excellent illustration of the different ways nonfiction can be written. NEXT time, I would like to start the year off with this activity. First, we can identify WHY we read nonfiction and the various text structures. Then, the next day, compare reading nonfiction to fiction! We can answer the question of why we read fiction and compare how fiction stories are set up much differently. I'm getting all tingly on the inside just thinking about it. Stop me before I get too nerdy. Sounds like I've got a week planned for the fall! What exciting nonfiction lessons do you do with your kiddos?
Welcome to another Manic Monday! I made these Figurative Language bookmarks awhile ago when I was trying out some new techniques using Powerpoint to make printables. As you have already noticed, I am also obsessed with all things chalkboard. I forgot I had uploaded them until I came across them the other day. They had been downloaded hundreds of times, without my needing a blog post! I decided they would make a great Manic Monday Freebie as many of my bloggy buddies south of the border are getting ready for Back to School. Warm up your colour printers and laminators! I find that while teaching reading, it is important to refer to the different types of figurative language frequently. I have poster sets up on bulletin boards in my classroom, but I found giving my students different bookmarks during the year was also helpful. Print on cardstock, cut in half and laminate! EASY! Click on either image to download for FREE Are you following this blog on Bloglovin? Be sure to link up YOUR OWN BLOG at the Back to School with Bloglovin Blog Hop sponsored by Teachingisagift and A Teacher Without a Class. Click on the IMAGE below to link up your blog and hop along to find other great new blogs to follow! Looking for a great book to read aloud to your students for back to school? Read my post about the THREE QUESTIONS by clicking on this beautiful picture by author John Muth.
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“You know what the problem is with kids these days? They don’t read!” As a veteran English teacher, I’ve heard this lament for years. And who or what’s to blame? Technology? Netflix? My colleagues…
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It’s January. In the perfect world all of my students would love reading by now. All of my students would bring their self-chosen book to class, eager to dive in, begging for more reading t…
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At the beginning of the year, I asked my students to tell me how they felt about reading. I do this every year as it offers me a baseline, a glimpse into their reading truths. I was not surprised…
Are you all enjoying the Super Sale as much as I am?? I am finding so many wonderful teacher creations today! I wanted to share something that I just uploaded last night with you, because I have been working on this for a while and have been really excited about it! These are my Figurative […]
Many textbooks aren't even close to authentic reading experiences. Minimize student struggle by identifying purpose, assigning reasonable homework, and teaching them to self-monitor for understanding.
In this series we'll examine what research says about whether we should teach knowledge or reading comprehension strategies (spoiler alert: we should teach both!). Then we'll look at specific ways to teach the following in
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The number one concern that I hear from educators is lack of time, particularly lack of instructional time with students. Although we can't entirely solve the time problem, we can mitigate it by carefully analyzing our use of class time.
A couple of years ago I asked my students to tell me why reading was amazing. When Jack whispered to Michael that “Reading sucks…” the rest, they say, is history. Insp…
If you love Kylene Beers and Robert Probst as much as I do, you have already read Disrupted Thinking and are implementing their Book, Heart, Head reading strategy. Add this FREE poster to your room for you and students to refer to. ...
