A Reading Teacher's Blog
An End of Year Memory Book is such a special keepsake for students to look back on and remember their school year. They are a great way for students to get creative while reflecting on their personal and academic growth and experiences. Below are 3 Memory Book formats that will fit your needs depending on…
The end of the year brings testing, finishing up grades, field days, assemblies, and more! Between all of this (plus exhaustion!) it can get hard to continually create engaging lesson plans. Having low-prep, meaningful end of year activities for elementary students to work on independently is SO key! Whether you are distance learning, hybrid teaching,…
An End of Year Memory Book is such a special keepsake for students to look back on and remember ...
The end of the year brings testing, finishing up grades, field days, assemblies, and more! Between ...
Starting to plan poetry month? a poetry unit? or prepping ways to sprinkle poetry in throughout the ...
Explicitly teaching and practicing reading strategies is so important to give students tools to ...
Informational writing can be a very new type of writing for many elementary students in 1st, 2nd, ...
When teaching narrative writing in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade, there are so many writing skills to ...
Starting to plan poetry month? a poetry unit? or prepping ways to sprinkle poetry in throughout the school year? It can be so time consuming to find quality resources for poetry instruction! These low prep resources below cover everything you will need to plan your poetry unit. They include everything from visuals to display…
Explicitly teaching and practicing reading strategies is so important to give students tools to better comprehend what they are reading. Some of these powerful strategies include using background knowledge, making predictions, asking questions, making inferences, making connections, visualizing and creating sensory images. WHY SHOULD I TEACH STUDENTS TO VISUALIZE AND CREATE SENSORY IMAGES? Research shows…
WHY TEACH STUDENTS TO FIND THE MAIN IDEA? Being able to find the main idea of a text is a complex and important nonfiction reading skill for upper elementary students (3rd-5th grade). “Learning how to understand what a section of a text or whole text is mostly about is critical to comprehension” (Serravello 2015). …
Exposing students to a wide variety of genres is so important to creating lifelong readers. It helps students begin to identify who they are as readers, including their likes and dislikes. By building genre background knowledge they are able to make connections, and ultimately comprehend, a new book of the same genre. WHAT ARE…
