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Guided Reading Galore! I've had many questions about guided reading! Let me start by saying, I'm NO expert. I am still working on it myself! But, I do have some things I've learned that I'd love to share with you...and I'm not taking credit for these ideas. :) I just blog about em'! Levels Once you establish the level of each of your students, you'll want to check out {this} printable. It has helped me SO much! I use this printable to help me decide when I'm meeting with each group. Here is a guideline from my district on where your students should be throughout the year. I keep my running records in a guided reading records binder {check that out here}. If you've never done a running record, it's really best to see one in action. Anecdotal notes Sometimes you notice things that your students are doing, but you're not doing a running record on them...but you need to remember to address it. Management I use the Daily 5. Daily 5 board! Time This one I can't really help you on. Books Any other ideas?
Stories | CBeebies Summary Watch and listen as the CBeebies presenters tell a story. Often retelling traditional stories and fairytales, the presenters read aloud from a picture book. Children can sit back and listen as well as follow the pictures on screen. Educational Benefits CBeebies Stories helps children to: Learn how to follow a narrative and recognise different characters.Find out about different cultures beyond their own.Learn to identify with different characters and experience different emotions. Website benefits and summary Watch the videos of the presenters telling the stories and print out bookmarks to use at home.
Words to the Wise: Aesop's Fables Interactive Book | Read.gov The Aesop for Children interactive book is designed to be enjoyed by readers of any age. The book contains over 140 classic fables, accompanied by beautiful illustrations and interactive animations. "Aesop's Fables"—also called "the Aesopica"—are a collection of stories designed to teach moral lessons credited to Aesop, a Greek slave and story-teller thought to have lived between 620 and 560 BCE. Aesop's fables are some of the most well known in the world and have been translated in multiple languages and become popular in dozens of cultures through the course of five centuries. The fables remain a popular choice for moral education of children today. This interactive book is presented by the Library of Congress, adapted from the book "The Aesop for Children: with Pictures by Milo Winter," published by Rand, McNally & Co in 1919.
Fry 1000 Instant Words For Teaching Reading: Free Flash Cards and Word Lists Above: Fry 1000 Instant Words Classroom Display Click on the link below to download this FREE classroom display set: Free Fry Word Wall Banner and ABC Cards: "We're Building Our Sight Word Vocabulary" The Fry 1000 Instant Words are a list of the most common words used for teaching reading, writing, and spelling. These high frequency words should be recognized instantly by readers. Dr. In 1996, Dr. 25 words make up approximately 1/3 of all items published.100 words comprise approximately 1/2 of all of the words found in publications.300 words make up approximately 65% of all written material. Over half of every newspaper article, textbook, children's story, and novel is composed of these 300 words. Consequently, students need to be able to read the first 300 Instant Words without a moment's hesitation. The Fry 1000 Instant Words have been arranged in the order of frequency in which they occur in printed material. I have divided this list into ten groups of one-hundred words each. 1. 2. 3. 6.
Story Cove - A Safe Place to Read Children's Books and Book Club Road to Reading PowerPoint Word Wall Vocabulary Presentations The presentations listed above are zipped files. You must have WinZip installed on your computer in order to open these presentations. To download a free copy of WinZip go to and follow the directions. Words and Technology The goal of working with words is to provide children opportunities spelling and reading words through activities that build phonemic awareness and application of phonetic skills. Since the manipulation of letters is so important in the Words Block, technology can provide the teacher the materials and resources that can be downloaded to their classroom computer. Multimedia vocabulary cards can be created through PowerPoint or Hyperstudio.The teacher could record a sound file by reading the word and a sentence with the word that is then inserted in the appropriate slide. Web Resources for the Word Block: ·PuzzleMaker,
Reading, Math, Coloring and Fun at PapaJan.com ICDL - International Children's Digital Library GrimmFairyTales.com Folk Tales and Fables Come play again later! Come play again tomorrow! Free English Reading comprehension tests and exercises online Reading comprehension is also an important part when you take an English test. Reading comprehension test can help you to improve vocabulary, grammar, and logical thought ability. There are some tips for you to improve reading skills: - Practice reading every day. You should read different fields to improve your vocabulary. - Take note all new words and learn them. - Try to answer all the questions. - After answer all the questions. - Practice reading techniques - scanning, skimming, intensive and extensive reading. + Scanning: You try to find a particular piece of information. + Skimming: You try to gather the most important information as quickly as possible. + Intensive reading: You try to find the details of a specific information. + Extensive reading: You try to find general information of a passage. Elementary Reading Tests
CogDogRoo - StoryTools 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story (return) Note! 50+ Ways is no longer being updated here but over at the new site for 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story-- It has more organizational features and includes ways for you to add content to the site once you join the new wiki. Below you will find 50+ web tools you can use to create your own web-based story. Again, the mission is not to review or try every single one (that would be madness, I know), but pick one that sounds interesting and see if you can produce something. I have used each tool to produce an example of the original Dominoe story, plus links are provided, where available, to examples by other people. Slideshow Tools Generates content that allows linear playback of a series of images, some with ability to add audio. 2. Upload images from computer or flickr or upload PowerPoint files. 3. 4. "RockYou! 5. 6. 8. 9. pictobrowser 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 17. 19. 24.