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!} 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! 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.
Comprehension Shuffle.