As a writing teacher at Tulsa Community College, I often find that students have trouble knowing how to get started taking notes. With those...
Looking for activities to support the asking questions reading strategy work in your classroom? Help your students ask and answer meaningful questions about the texts they read before, during, and after reading with these questioning graphic organizers, task cards, and activities. These activities w...
teaching chunking reading strategy// In this lesson, we will be teaching the chunking reading strategy. The chunking reading strategy is one of the reading s...
This free focus on close reading resource helps you teach students about the THIEVES informational text reading strategy.
Making connections to the text is just one way we can help learners understand what they are reading. As readers connect the text to self, to other texts, and to events that have or are happening in the world, they have a clearer focus for using many of the other comprehension reading strategies. We want ... Read More about Making Connections – Reading Strategy
A blog by Melanie Lloyd (From the Pond) about classroom activities and printables for K-3 learners.
Making connections anchor.
Lessons, activities, interventions, and more for kindergarten, first-grade, second-grade teachers and special educators.
Lessons, activities, interventions, and more for kindergarten, first-grade, second-grade teachers and special educators.
Vowel sounds can be especially tricky for our beginning readers. Just when they get used to the short vowel sound we teach them long vowel sounds. When my readers are ready to move on to the long vowel sound words, the Flippy Dolphin reading strategy is super helpful. With everything from a flipchart to crafts, these F
Back to school sales have been happening which can only mean one thing: IT’S ALMOST TIME TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL!! For some, that is great reason to celebrate, and for others, it’s a littl…
Literacy Concepts: Phoenemic Awareness, Oral Language, Reading Fluency & Expression Choral reading is an activity that I have done in the past during a placement with Gr. 1/2 students. In choral reading, students read rhymes, poems, or tongue twisters aloud as a group. Choral reading has been found to be particularly effective in developing phoenemic awareness in young learners.
One of my favorite reading strategies I use in my secondary history class is Reciprocal Teaching. So what is Reciprocal Teaching you may ask...
Strategy checklist to use to move your students through guided reading levels (Fountas & Pinnell); great for parent conferences or for designing lessons or activities for your classroom.
Reading Strategy Anchor Chart Ideas
Lessons, activities, interventions, and more for kindergarten, first-grade, second-grade teachers and special educators.
Reading strategy groups are an excellent way to teach reading in an elementary classroom. This post details how they differ from guided reading groups.
