Thinkmark Anchor Chart. Original idea from www.chartchums.wor. Retelling rope. Happy Monday! It's Kelli from Castles and Crayons! I am SO thrilled to be a guest blogger for Gladys today! I hope I can fill in the pinky toe of her fabulous high heels! :) ONE of my favorite things about first grade {I have about 5, 273 things!} Is teaching comprehension. As a former Kinder teacher, I LOVE that we can dig a little deeper in first! We focus on a comprehension strategy each month. August ~ Daily Five launch September ~ Characters October ~ Main Idea and Details November ~ Making Connections December ~ Making Predictions January ~ Making Inferences February ~ Asking Questions March ~ Retelling April ~ Summarizing May ~ Visualizing This month is all about retelling! After reading a fiction text, I have one of my students hold the Retelling Rope in front of the class.
PRESH or PRESH??? All you need is ribbon, the wooden shapes {I got mine from Hobby Lobby}, a few beads or pom poms, and a hot glue gun. Click {HERE} to download the directions to make your very own Retelling Rope! P.S. Somebody, Wanted, But, So Summary Freebie! I love using "somebody, wanted, but so" to help my students organize fiction summaries! Today I have been working on some things for our fairy tale genre study and we'll be doing this next week: If you download it, let me know what you think! :) This is a perfect follow-up activity to the Little Critter freebie I posted a while back- summary cards. Here's the link in case you missed it! I am also so excited because I am now going to be contributing to The Best Endings... a blog all about BOOKS!
I'm finishing the 2nd in a trilogy right now (the Gemma Doyle trilogy by Libba Bray), so I'm sure I'll be posted about that over there soon! Synthesis super hero/compound cook. Reading Responses. Main Idea and Details. Some of my 3rd and 4th graders are having a difficult time with identifying Main Idea. Some just are not getting past the idea that not every paragraph or passage will have one sentence that will state the main idea. Others are just looking at the title of the piece and considering that the main idea, thus missing a lot of detail. So I really wanted to do an activity that pulls them away from text but still addresses the concept of main idea.
I decided to create bags full of items that go together. The students have to think about how the items relate to one another and ultimately what the main idea would be of all of the items together, as I slowly pull them out one at a time. One item is the key item that really ties everything together, the detail to best support the main idea. When the first few items were pulled out, we talked about how they were food items and would probably be eaten as a snack. The soup was the key item, the detail to best support the main idea. Comprehension Shuffle.