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Raise the Bar Reading

A Reading Teacher's Blog

No Prep Winter Activities for the Elementary Classroom

With the holiday season and the first snow fall, comes lots of excitement in students. Having fun, hands on, educational winter activities available gives students an outlet for this excitement in a meaningful way. I love having different formats and options for students to choose from. Setting up centers or stations gives students choice and…

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No Prep Winter Activities for the Elementary Classroom

With the holiday season and the first snow fall, comes lots of excitement in students. Having fun, ...

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Reading Comprehension Strategies Crafts: Hands on Activities for Teaching Reading Strategies

Explicitly teaching, as well as continually modeling and practicing reading comprehension strategies ...

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Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies: Asking Questions & QAR Strategy

Asking questions before, during, and after reading comes very naturally to skilled readers, but for ...

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Teaching Students to Use Background Knowledge in the Elementary Reading Classroom

Using prior knowledge is an essential strategy for reading comprehension.  The more knowledge ...

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Low Prep End of Year Activities for Elementary Students

As the end of the school year quickly approaches, it is important to have fun, meaningful, and ...

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Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies: Asking Questions & QAR Strategy

Asking questions before, during, and after reading comes very naturally to skilled readers, but for struggling readers, this skill can be just the opposite.  Asking questions of varying depths is arguably the most important reading comprehension strategy we should teach and practice often with our students.     WHY IS ASKING QUESTIONS AN IMPORTANT READING…

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Teaching Students to Use Background Knowledge in the Elementary Reading Classroom

Using prior knowledge is an essential strategy for reading comprehension.  The more knowledge students have on a topic, the easier it will be for them to understand, and make connections to, new texts.  Prior knowledge is also part of the building blocks for more difficult reading strategies, such as making inferences. Below are 8 ways…

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5 Ways to Practice Nonfiction Text Features

As adult readers, we know the importance of using text features in order to help us understand the main body of text.  Headings help us to make predictions while reading, and then easily find information after reading.  Captions explicitly tell us what we are looking at in a photograph or picture that aligns to the…

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5 Steps for Teaching Reading Strategies in an Elementary Classroom

It can be very overwhelming, especially for my struggling readers, to focus on using multiple reading comprehension strategies with a piece of text.  For this reason, I always take time in at least the first quarter of the school year to teach and review them individually.  This way students have the academic language and practice…

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