Dragons Love Tacos Reading Lesson Ideas for 2nd grade. Reading comprehension strategies and responding to literature with these fun activities and ideas. Dragons Love Tacos Reading Lesson Ideas New York Times bestseller, Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin is so funny! Check out the engaging activities we've planned to go along with this book. Predicting I don't know what it is but students LOVE predicting what they think will happen next in the story. It is almost like a game ... continue reading...
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America Unit Part One
I love how cute the bald eagles turned out! This is a picture of our Chit-Chit message. These messages are how I teach and review phonics, reading and language skills. There is no better way to teach letter sounds and sound chunks than in the context of authentic reading and writing. We read a sentence just as it is written and then use our schema and other context clues to help us figure out what would make sense in the sentence. Once we think we have it figured ... continue reading...
5 Lesson Ideas for Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly and a FREE FILE!
5 reading lesson ideas for Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly. K-2 Reading Comprehension lessons, responding to literature, and a FREE FILE! Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly Reading Lesson Ideas This book is a fun story about a first grader who makes a name for herself after a class field trip to learn about butterflies! A great book to use during science when learning about butterfly migration and metamorphosis. We've planned out 5 reading lessons for you to print and teach! ... continue reading...
The Invisible Boy Read Aloud Activities & Lesson Plans for K-2
The Invisible Boy read aloud. Reading comprehension lesson plans with student response activities. Vocabulary, grammar, sentence study, and a craft, too! The Invisible Boy Activities The Invisible Boy, written by Trudy Ludwig, is a touching story about a little boy named Brian. Brian is a quiet student and his classmates don't notice him much. Justin, a new student, is introduced to the class and things seem to turn around for Brian. This is an excellent story to read at any time ... continue reading...
Secret Stories with Katie Garner
For those familiar with the Secret Stories- Cracking the Reading & Writing Codes with the Brain-in-Mind! my name might sound familiar! I'm Katie Garner, author of the Secret Stories, and have been brainstorming with Deanna the past few weeks about this shared blogging endeavor! These "Secret Sessions" will be posted both here and on the new Secret Stories BLOG. Click for the Secret Stories "Awesome Anchors" Pinterest Page A handful of times each month, ... continue reading...
Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse Reading Lesson Plans FREEBIE
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse reading comprehension lesson plans for K-2! This FREEBIE includes 5 lesson plans, complete with student response activities and a craft! Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse Lilly loves school and especially loves her teacher, Mr. Slinger. That is until he takes her new purse for being too disruptive. Lilly's feelings about Mr. Slinger quickly change. Use this story to teach a good lesson about having patience and being a good listener. You and your students will love ... continue reading...
The Best Phonological Awareness Lessons for Your Primary Students
Improve phonemic and phonological awareness skills with lesson plans for kindergarten and first grade. These daily, 10-minute lessons will lead to reading and writing success! Lesson Plans for Teaching Phonological Awareness Skills Phonological awareness skills are the foundation for reading and writing success. Students with phonological awareness understand that language is made up of words, rhymes, syllables, and sounds. Comparatively, phonemic awareness focuses on identifying, ... continue reading...
Butterfly Lesson Plans | Digital & Printable Reading Response for K-2
Butterfly lesson plans. Students respond to literature using the story, The Very Impatient Caterpillar and also learn about the butterfly life cycle and migration using nonfiction text. Engaging Butterfly Lesson Plans Learning about butterflies is always a fun Spring lesson, or really at any time of the year! Students can easily get excited about these fun insects because they see them in everyday life. There are so many great pieces of children's literature that represent ... continue reading...
Guided Reading Lessons and Activities for your Favorite Traditional Tales
Guided reading lessons, books, and activities for reading levels AA-J. Digital and printable options for teaching guided reading to K-1 students. Guided Reading Lessons & Activities Guided reading lesson plans can make your daily guided reading instruction simple! With lesson plans, books, running records, and word work activities you will have all you need to organize and effectively teach during guided reading groups. Our traditional tales guided reading pack is full of ... continue reading...
Writing Lesson Plans for Kindergarten & First Grade
Writing lesson plans for the entire year! Complete writing units to help you teach writing in kindergarten and 1st grade. Writing Lesson Plans Teaching writing can feel quite overwhelming! Writing instruction should occur daily in the classroom. However, you may find yourself asking, "Well, what exactly do I teach for writing?" That is a question I often hear from kindergarten and first-grade teachers. Deedee Wills and I created the perfect solution for you! We spent countless hours ... continue reading...
Guided Reading Lesson Plans | Be an Expert! (FREE Download too!)
Guided Reading Lesson Plan template and free download. Reading levels in kindergarten and first grade to create guided reading lesson plans with free books! Are you wanting to master guided reading, but feel a wee bit overwhelmed? I get it! Guided Reading is just one more thing you have on your plate.. or do you? Are you currently conducting guided reading lessons in your classroom? I am sometimes surprised to hear that some emergent classrooms do not. Don't ... continue reading...
Writer’s Workshop: Writing Through the Year FREEBIE
Sometimes it can be a challenge to organize your curriculum in a way that is easy to use. Deedee Wills and I have been working on reorganizing and updating our writing workshop units. I prefer to keep my units in these 2" binders. You can find the spine labels at the end of this post. I will walk you through a unit to show you how it's organized. Each unit starts with a unit overview. You can also easily see the standards that are addressed in the unit. A writing continuum ... continue reading...
Pumpkin Patch Palooza and a FREEBIE
Fall is one of my favorite times of year to teach! I love all things Fall: pumpkins, apples, scarecrows, bats, spiders, owls.... Did I mention it is my favorite time of the year to teach? The littles get so excited about learning and isn't that what it's all about? Sometimes teachers get so bogged down with teaching what's in the basal (no basal for me, thank you very much!) that we forget that true learning takes place when the teacher and students are EXCITED about what they are ... continue reading...
Book Talk Tuesday: Wiggles First Day at School
Teaching little ones the rules and procedures in the classroom is sometimes a tricky process. Wiggles First Day at School makes it much easier! Wiggles the dog came to school but he doesn't know the rules. Talking {barking} while the teacher is talking, not sharing and running inside are just a few of the problems that Wiggles has to work through as he learns the procedures. These are the procedures that are introduced in the book. 1: Back Pack placement 2: ... continue reading...
Book Talk Tuesday: The Very Ugly Bug
Have you ever wished you could change how you look? Do you sometimes wish you looked more like your friends? That's the problem with the Very Ugly Bug. She isn't happy with how she looks and she wishes that she looked more like the grasshopper with his smooth green back, the shiny blue bug with his big fluttery wings or like the spotty red bug with her teeny tiny eyes. She thinks about how their characteristics help them hide from birds and she decides that she wants to look more like ... continue reading...
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