"Drizzle" by Kathleen Van Cleve. Close Reading: The Text, the Students, and Me. Close Reading: The Text, the Students, and Me By Sarah Powley closeAuthor: Sarah Powley Name: Sarah PowleySite: n English teacher for 37 years, Sarah has taught in secondary schools in Wisconsin, Connecticut, and Indiana.
For many years, she served as the English Department Chair at McCutcheon High School in Lafayette, Indiana, and is now a full-time Instructional Coach for her district. Honors include the Milken National Educator Award, the Eli Lilly Teacher Creativity Fellowship, the Irena Sendler Award for Holocaust Education, and Purdue University's Crystal Apple Award.See Authors Posts (18)“Mrs. Powley! I sometimes heard that question when I was the teacher at the front of the room, leading my students through Great Expectations, Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby…and a library of other literary staples in the English Language Arts canon.
Such a remark was gratifying to hear because what it really meant was that the students had been awed by the text. About the Lessons & Units. Teacher EBooks NOW - downloadable teaching materials, ebooks, printable emergent readers, workbooks, downloads, and more. Reading Passages. <div id="nojs-warning">WARNING: Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display</div> Sign InRegister ReadWorks.org The Solution to Reading Comprehension Books and Passages.
In this lesson, “Miss Alaineus” teaches inferencing and summarizing reading comprehension strategies. Sight Vocabulary Work#anchor_389. Big Universe Learning - Read Leveled Nonfiction and Fiction Children’s Books Online. Graphic Organizers Vocabulary Development. High frequency words reading game. Dolch sight words, list, exercises, sight word flashcards, reading sheets, sight word games and sight word teaching ideas.
In the early 1900s, Edward W.
Dolch surveyed hundreds of childrens books and came up with a list of 220 "service words" (pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and verbs) and 95 nouns which occurred over and over again in children's books. These words are said to account for 50-75% of all words in children's books. Many of these words are often difficult to portray with pictures or hard to sound out through phonics methods. Others simply occur so often it's worth the time to memorize them as is or 'by sight' when the reader comes across them. The Dolch Sight Word lists are broken up by level and frequency for that level of reader. Here is the list as Dolch presented it for native English speakers: Fourth Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheets. Reading Comprehension Worksheets for 3rd Grade - Reading for Understanding. The printable reading comprehension worksheets listed below were created specially for students at a 3rd grade reading level.
Each file includes a fiction or non-fiction reading passage, followed by a page of comprehension questions. Select the apple core symbol ( ) to view Common Core Standards associated with each reading activity. Fiction Stories Closet Creature (Fiction) Free When Adam wakes up in the middle of the night to scary sounds coming from his closet, he'll need help to find out just what kind of creature is trapped inside. Time Capsule (Fiction) Member Anna buries a time capsule in her garden with her favorite book, her yo-yo, and other treasured items. Ben's Loose Tooth (Fiction) Member Ben's sister Kate is trying to help him remove his wiggly tooth, but nothing is working.
The Strange Star (Fiction) Member When Rosie visits the beach with her father, she can't see the nighttime stars she loves. The Haunted Tree (Fiction) Member Brotherly Love Member Friends Helping Friends Member. Flexible Vocabulary Flashcards. Flexible Vocabulary Flashcards. Have Fun Teaching. Express Yourself. George Wesley Bellow, American, 1882-1925, Love of Winter, 1914.
Oil on canvas 81.6 x 101.6 cm (32 1/2 x 40 1/2 in.). The Art Institute of Chicago Friends of American Art Collection. Look at this! In January 1914, George Wesley Bellows complained in a letter, "There has been none of my favorite snow. I must always paint the snow at least once a year. " Bellows got his wish on February 13 when a blizzard blanketed New York City with fresh snow. In the painting, notice how he uses bright and dark colors to contrast against the white snow and icy blue trees. Create it! Now, write a poem about the people in the painting or the landscape. Write a poem about this art. Graphic Organizers Vocabulary Development. Tommy Tompkin's Home Page.