Free Arthur Online Storybooks on KOL Jr. Untitled. Language Arts: Bulletproof Dog Reading Activity. Mrs. Gilchrist's Class: Search results for inform. Reading Is Thinking. Why We Love Patricia Polacco. It is important for students to not only recognize how a character learns and grows, but to also understand how the story's unfolding events affected those changes.
This Foldable® has students consider the underlying reasons of why a main character changed, supporting their ideas and inferences with evidence from the text. We love to use Patricia Polacco's autobiographical books to teach this concept because she is able to express the feelings she experienced so vividly. It is obvious from reading her stories that she has been influenced by so many events and people in her life.
We used the book Mrs. Mack for our whole class model. Begin by having the students make a Top Pocket Foldable® with 11 X 17 card stock. In the middle of the inside of the Foldable®, glue a 2-tab made out of a half sheet of 8 1/2 X 11 paper. Have students fold a sheet of paper into fourths, hot dog style, and then into fourth's , hamburger style, creating a 4x4 table. Read the rest of the story. Mrs. Thunder Cake. Reading.
New Guided Reading Groups. The buckets are packed with goodies, and the kids were soooooo excited to start our new guided reading groups this week.
I have 5 different groups with 4 students in each group. Each group will be reading a different Jerry Spinelli novel: Wringer, Report to the Principal's Office, Maniac Magee, Loser, and Fourth Grade Rats. We do guided reading each day, and all groups work at the same time. My resource teacher works with me during this time, and she meets with (runs) the same group each day - she works with my below grade level group. Great organization idea. Teaching My Friends! Glitzy In 1st Grade. Thinking Maps GONE WILD!!!
So the other day I was strollin’ down our school's hallways and had a “light bulb” moment! I was going to BLOG about our campus and all the AMAZING Thinking Maps posted all over our beautiful hallways! So the next morning I went all over the school asking permission of my fabulous teacher friends, if I could share their ideas and Thinking Maps on my blog.
They were more than happy to say “yes” and help out! I was also very honored to know that many of them follow my BLOG!!! We became a “THINKING MAP” school last year! We only get 2 REAMS of paper every 9wks! We have many creative teachers on our campus and it really helps to see what everyone else is doing! I am a HUGE FAN of THINKING MAPS!!!! Seriously, I love the AWESOME teachers I work with! Kinder Dual Language- Mrs. The Spanish side of Kinder Dual: Mrs. Ms. She taught KINDER for the first time this year and she has done a FAB job with those Kinderoos! Thank you to my 1st grade team for sharing! Mrs. Mrs. Reading: The Core Skill:Every Child, Every Day. Energizing Brain Breaks. Launch Lessons. Elementary Matters: Blog Swap and Hop. Hello readers of Elementary Matters!
Welcome to the Top Teachers' Blog Swap and Hop! Today I'll be guest blogging at Conversations in Literacy, while Michelle from No Monkey Business...Just Bunches of Learning blog is guest posting here! Here's Michelle's post... Hi "Not So Elementary" friends! I am so happy to be guest blogging for Sally today! If you keep up with the current trends in Education by state, you know that my current home state of Tennessee has been in the "hot seat" lately with rigorous teacher evaluations and improving classroom practices. As teachers have worked on improving practices, closing a lesson effectively has been in many discussions (and on the teacher evaluation rubric).
I thought I'd share a FREEBIE with you that demonstrates some of my favorite ways to close a lesson as strongly as you began it, and get quick feedback on where your students are after you've taught a concept. Another favorite (and yes, it involves post it notes too!) First day with student literacy centers! Today our second graders started using the iPads in their literacy centers.
We set up the iPads so there are three screens of apps -- one for literacy practice, one for art and publication, and a third for teacher apps. As each group of 5 students came to the center, I showed them how to navigate through the screens and, specifically, how to navigate a video. There was a little confusion between the video progress bar (at the top) and the volume slider (near the playback controls), so that was something we talked about.
For today's content, we used a sight word video that prompted students to read the word silently, pause the movie, write the word, and then listen to the word and a sentence including the word. Sight word recognition will help second graders build reading fluency and comprehension, and practicing sight words is always an important activity in the early months of the school year.