Reading Workshop Mini-Lessons: Teaching Reading Skills. Written by: Margo Dill • edited by: Trent Lorcher • updated: 1/17/2012 Reading workshop allows students to read books on their levels that fit with their interests.
But how do you check for comprehension? How do you meet your reading objectives? How do you assess students? Mini-LessonsMany teachers struggle with how to teach reading skills when using reading workshop, which Nancie Atwell has researched and written extensively on teaching with reading workshop. Running a Reading Workshop in Your Classroom. What Does Foreshadowing Mean? Help for Teachers and Students. Written by: Julia Bodeeb • edited by: Wendy Finn • updated: 1/5/2012 Help students understand the concept of foreshadowing by first discussing the definition and talking about the kinds of hints or foreshadowing authors often use when writing literature.
It is helpful to have students discuss examples of foreshadowing from current movies too. Let's Go to the MoviesMost movies use foreshadowing in the opening scene. There is usually some component of the first scene that gives a hint to future events.Many movies start with a dramatic scene or dramatic weather. If the first image seen is a dark, stormy night it is a classic example of using foreshadowing to give hints to the tone and theme of the movie. Teaching Ideas to Find the Main Idea in Passages. Main Idea Practice The following passage has a multiple choice question following it.
For each answer or distracter an explanation is given. Distracters are answer choices that are not correct. The distracters will usually be answers that support the passage but will not be the main idea. The distracters will usually be supporting detail, inferred details, themes, or summaries. Main Idea Question Sample with Analysis. Interactive Activity Ideas For Comparing and Contrasting in Literature. Double Bubble Thinking Map--the Giant Edition 1.
Flash a giant double bubble thinking map using the smartboard. If you don't have one in your room, use pieces of card taped together and draw the double thinking map on it. Instead of using the institutionalized Venn diagram as the standard graphic organizer for compare and contrast, use this thinking map to establish a more compartmentalized way of presenting thoughts. For a guide as to what this thinking map looks, click here. 3. 4. 5. Showing Connotation vs. Denotation Meanings to Students. Examples of Connotation in Literature: Stories that Use Connotation and Denotation.
Famous Example of Connotation in Literature I came across this story the other day.
Here's the beginning: "True! Uneasy, very, very strangely uneasy I had been and am; but why will you say that I am lacking stability? The ailment had honed my senses, not consumed, not lessened their strength. Does the above story beginning sound familiar? How about this story beginning? "True! The second passage is the opening to Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart. " You inherently recognize the difference in the denotative meaning of a word and its connotative meaning, even if you can't verbalize it. Teaching Strategies: Main Idea and Supporting Details Lesson. Example Question with Analysis For example, in this passage: The snow fell all night.
When Bobbie woke up the next morning, his hillside was blanketed with six inches of snow. Blaring on the radio were the school closings that his sister, Brooklyn, sat listening to carefully. His school district, Lincoln Schools, was closed for the day. The main idea of this passage is A. Ideas for Context Clues SMART Board Lesson Plans. Written by: Krima Olive Molina • edited by: Amanda Grove • updated: 9/11/2012 Maximize your SMART Board use during your context clues lesson with these engaging and efficient lesson plan ideas.
In this sample lesson plan, an interactive discussion followed by an enrichment game will make full use of the SMART Board to draw out full learning from your students. To introduce your lesson on context clues, SMART Board use is a meaningful and fun way to maximize a group learning experience in your classroom. Here is an outline of a sample lesson plan:TitleContext Clues on SMART BoardMaterialsSMART Board presentation on context cluescontext clues activity sheet, for individual practiceObjectives (1) The students will be able to define what a context clue is.(2) The students will be able to recognize context clues in given sentences and paragraphs.(3) The students will be able to unlock vocabulary challenge words using context clues.Setting the Stage1.
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