Story retell activities to practice and improve reading comprehension skills and strategies. Story retell cards for whole group and individual practice. Has there ever been a time you've sat down to give a DRA and realized your students were unable to retell the story? Or perhaps your reading assessments are showing low scores in reading comprehension? Several students struggle with providing a detailed retelling of a story. Nevertheless, developing and instilling reading comprehension ... continue reading...
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Planning Your Instruction
Can you imagine if I were to jump in my car and decide to drive to California? I point my car west and drive... no map, no GPS, just a general direction. I would probably get there, but it would not be the most effective method. That is the same idea behind a curriculum map. It helps you find your way. It helps you to know you are on the right track. Can you take detours? Absolutely! But you HAVE to know where you are going BEFORE you start the car! Start with a Curriculum ... continue reading...
Spider Informational Text Activities
Spider informational text activities for kindergarten and first grade? You got it! Done and done! Deedee and I were asked for more informational texts in our Guiding Readers units, so we added a stand-alone edition. As you know, these units are week-long close reading lessons that really allow students to dive in deeper. The teacher does the decoding work, but the thinking work sits on the shoulders of the students. Spiders Informational Text We started this unit of study with Spiders ... continue reading...
Phoneme Segmentation! Make and Take Freebie and Book Talk Tuesday
Segmenting words is an important skill that we work on throughout the year. Kids need a variety of hands on ways to work on this skill in order to make it more concrete. We use a variety of manipulatives to work on phoneme segmentation. Building words with unifix cubes as we say each sound, stretching the words with a slinky, sliding a pony bead for each sound and using our stretchy the word stretcher (as seen above). To make the word stretchers you need the template (below) ... continue reading...
The Gruffalo Lesson Plans | Reading Comprehension for K-2
The Gruffalo lesson plans for K-2. Engaging 5-day lesson plans with differentiated reading response, vocabulary, sentence study, and a craft for this fun story! The Gruffalo A clever mouse outsmarts some woodland animals who want to eat him with the story of a Gruffalo. Little does he know, a Gruffalo is real and loves to eat mice. Your students will love this award-winning story! Through our engaging lesson plans students will strengthen their reading comprehension skills and have fun ... continue reading...
Book study: In Pictures and In Words
Hey Friends! Nothing says summer like, book study! Woo-Hoo...I love diving into a great book that will help me learn and grow as a teacher. So put down your copy of Fifty Shades of Gray ;) and grab this book! This year we will be diving into Katie Wood Ray's Book, In Pictures and in Words. I'm so excited to participate in this book study with all of my bloggy friends. Who better to help me think more deeply about this text than you guys? When does it start? On June 22nd, ... continue reading...
Teaching with Versions of Goldilocks and the Three Bears Story
23 Versions of Goldilocks and the three bears stories. Read various versions of this classic story. Have fun comparing these fractured fairy tales. 23 Versions of Goldilocks and the Three Bears Story We all know and love this classic story. It is so fun to read different versions of Goldilocks and the Three Bears story. Whether you're comparing and contrasting or just reading them for fun, students are sure to enjoy these fractured fairy tales. #1 Goldie and the Three Hares by ... continue reading...
Inferring with Primary Students: The Case of the Missing Toy Sack
Inferring with Primary Students: Christmas Inference Detectives Activities for Kindergarten and First-Grade Inferring with Primary Students: Kindergarten and First-Grade Inferring is an important comprehension skill for young readers to have and I love giving them lots of practice with this skill. We infer each week with the story we are reading, but I also like to give them opportunities to infer outside of the text. Inferring is just putting clues together and using that voice inside ... continue reading...
Kindergarten Math Lessons and Activities for the First 20 Days!
Kindergarten math lesson plans for teaching numbers to 5, 2D shapes, and 3D shapes. This resource provides detailed instruction for your first 4 weeks of math! Kindergarten Math: The First 20 Days The first few weeks of school are a hectic time for kindergarten teachers! You are making sure to cover all procedures and routines, all while beginning to teach the kindergarten math curriculum. Many teachers get started with academics right away in order to stay on track for the expected ... continue reading...
After the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again | K-2 Lesson Plans
After the Fall (Humpty Dumpty) reading comprehension lesson plans. Students respond to literature while developing reading comprehension strategies, vocabulary, and grammar. After the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again This story is so great! I love that it teaches us the lesson to get back up after a difficult time. In the book, Humpty Dumpty becomes afraid of heights after he falls from the wall. He finds himself back up the ladder and something pretty amazing happens... he ... continue reading...
Engaging Readers, Curriculum Maps and FREE five-day lesson plan
Curriculum Maps for Kindergarten and First Grade help to guide your classroom instruction through your whole year! Reading, Math, Writing and MORE! Plus a free file for you! We have a whole series of Engaging Readers units out. The units cover phonemic awareness, phonics, and Comprehension skills. Here are a few pictures that Stephanie Stewart shared with me from the April unit. Sequencing the picture cards for the story, Piggie Pie. Checking her notebook with the class chart to see ... continue reading...
Oceans of Fun!
I got up bright and early this morning and drove 2 hrs. in search of the perfect wedding dress for my daughter Taylor. SUCCESS! But, I'm one tired mamma so this is going to be a super quick post! We just started our ocean unit. Nothing gets boys excited more than sharks! (okay...maybe dinosaurs...but they still LOVE sharks too). We used interactive writing to label the parts of a shark. Comparing sharks and whales. Schema Chart Writing ... continue reading...
Common Core Standards Organization and Wishy Washy!
I've had a lot of questions about how I organize my Common Core Standards and Essential Questions. I display them on posters which are hot glued to ribbon. The standards are attached with velcro so that they are easy to change in and out. (Please excuse the bad picture above. The standards shown are from the 1st grade set. Notice that the clipart images match the standard and that the essential question clipart also matches. This helps the little ones who can't read understand the ... continue reading...
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Activities & a Freebie
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Activities for Back to School. Kindergarten and first-grade classroom ideas with a Chicka Chicka Boom Boom directed drawing, science, and writing! Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is simply one of those books that is perfect for back to school time. See how we use this book throughout the week! Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Activities: Reading Ideas I always seem to start the year off with Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, I bet you do too! But just because it is the ... continue reading...
Spring Books You Won’t Want to Miss!
Spring books for kindergarten and first grade. See some of my favorite read-aloud lesson and activities for spring! Ideas and directed drawing too. Spring Books: Piggie Pie Ya'll know I love Piggie Pie! There is so much you can do with this book. Let me share a few of the activities we have in our Engaging Readers Unit. These photos are from Stephanie Stewart who teaches first grade. Here students worked on sequencing the story. Then students add the retelling to their ... continue reading...
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