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Fables, Reading Comprehension & Strategies, Themes in Literature

Using Fables to Teach Reading Standards

April 14, 2018

My students love fables, and I love using them in my classroom.  Fables are great for introducing reading standards, as well as helping my students see how these standards work together to help them better… [continue reading]

by Cherie 
Fables, Reading Comprehension & Strategies, Themes in Literature, Vocabulary Activities

Teaching Theme in Literature

November 8, 2017

Teaching–theme in literature can be quite difficult at the elementary level.  As a third grade teacher, I have struggled with this for years before figuring out how to make these concepts more tangible for my… [continue reading]

by Cherie 
Read Alouds, Reader's Workshop, Reading Comprehension & Strategies

Launching Reader’s Workshop

July 13, 2017

Every teacher loves a great back-to-school read aloud.  There are so many popular titles to use as springboards for first day experiences, engaging students in making new friends, or getting back into the swing of… [continue reading]

by laine 
Reading Comprehension & Strategies, Vocabulary Activities

Shades of Meaning or Nuances

January 12, 2017

Understanding shades–of–meaning or nuances can make a huge difference in students’ ability to comprehend literary text.  When reading with my students, I often ask them to describe the character’s feelings in the story.  I typically… [continue reading]

by laine 
back-to-school

Favorite Freebies

August 3, 2016

I’ve been humming this tune as I put my classroom back together after a restful (but HOT!) summer.  I know it’s a song we hear in December, but I can’t help but love the resources… [continue reading]

by laine 
Reading Comprehension & Strategies, Reading Goals & Student Growth, Student Data Binder Resources

Student-Goals Are Key to Success

March 13, 2016

StUsingThe As teachers, student data is the center of many of our conversations.  But how much time does it get within our conversations with our students, especially regarding student–goals?  We rely on data and our… [continue reading]

by laine 
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Using Fables to Teach Reading Standards

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  • A Bad Case of Stripes is an awesome book 📚  to teach character trait analysis and message!  I love 😍 when I can take a few lines from the text and turn it into a language lesson- adjectives, similes, and nouns. "Camilla was striped from head to toe.  She looked like a rainbow 🌈 ," lent itself to the imagination💭 of all my third graders.  She was a leopard🐆 , a disco ball🕺, a zebra🦓, a tree🌳, a chicken🐔, a fish🐟... You name it, my students brainstormed so many adjectives and thought of great comparisons that would represent those adjectives so well.  Lessons like this, you can't help but love what you do. 💗 
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  • So after finding adjectives in our poem, I gave students a list of rhyming foods. Students worked in partners to come up with their own versus using adjectives to describe  foods to add to Sarah Silvia Cynthia Stout’s garbage problem. ❤️ I love when poetry lends itself to so many authentic activities. Loved the student engagement. *
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  • Love, love, love ❤️ 💕❤️ my Emoji pillows and rolled towels for an easy way to create seating flexibility in my classroom during read-to-self time and partner reading.  I usually start out with students finding a place in the room to read, and as I walk around to listen 👂 to students read or talk about their reading, ⁣
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I choose those who are totally engaged in their reading activity to grab a towel or pillow and find a comfortable place to read.  Each day is a new day for students to practice reading expectations, so I really like to select different students who are trying to apply what good readers do. ⁣
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  • Fluency Friday was awesome today❗️ Students read the poem Sarah Silvia Cynthia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out, by Shel Silverstein. We highlighted adjectives throughout the poem and even used a list of rhyming foods and thought of great adjectives to describe those foods to create our own versus to add to the garbage heap. This Friday the 13th 🗓 / full moon 🌕 didn’t have a chance to get our ELA block off track!
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  • As we begin the school year strong, one of the most important reading activities I do with my 3rd-grade students is a method I use to increase student engagement 💯. Though there are benefits to turn-and-talks during 📖 read alouds, I still struggled with not getting a true sense of what my individual kiddos were getting and what was a struggle or misconception. ⁣⁣
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The Think🤔, Jot ✏️, Share 💬  method provides for my students an opportunity to think about the question in front of them, jot their ideas once they've had a moment of think time, and share their thoughts with a partner.  While I'm able to engage with students during think and share times to offer support, the biggest plus is that I have a formative assessment that gives me so much insight 🔍 into their application of the focus standard and their written expression.  I also use response booklets to plan my next steps👣. ⁣⁣
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If you want to increase your students' engagement during read aloud time, you can find a 🔗link in my profile for this Think, Jot, Share post.  The resource provides a complete guide for implementation, management, and preplanned questions for literature standards to make planning a breeze.....and so much more. ⁣⁣
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  • I love lifting a line from our interactive read aloud and using it as a mentor sentence. With this sentence, my students had a great discussion about how some nouns can become adjectives.  i.e. though butter and peppermints can be nouns, they describe the tea and cookies in this particular sentence. ⁣
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My students enjoy mentor sentence activities so much, they sometimes like to go the extra mile and illustrate their cloned version of the sentence.  In this sentence, students had our principal, Mr. Price setting up a table with hot cocoa ☕️ and ice cream cake 🍰, the kind with sprinkles on top. ❤️ I just love the illustrations. ⁣
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