Help Your Primary Students Track Their Thinking While Reading
Annotation in the lower grades will look a bit different than it does in the upper grades. It definitely won’t be quite as detailed, but
Annotation in the lower grades will look a bit different than it does in the upper grades. It definitely won’t be quite as detailed, but
This time of year, it’s no secret that most kids have Santa on the brain… …so don’t fight that feeling! You definitely can’t beat ’em on
We don’t often think of using higher order thinking questions, or Bloom’s Taxonomy above level 1 and 2, within grammar and writing instruction. In fact,
Teachers are aware that understanding vocabulary is crucial to reading comprehension, but we want students to do more than just “know it when they read
Honest talk here. Close reading turns those mini-lessons into MAXI-lessons if you try to fit in all that you want to do with a text
How many times as an adult have you been reading a book and realize at the end of the page, you didn’t really READ any
When I first started teaching, I would sit down at the beginning of every school year with a blank calendar, and I’d map out what
A question I am asked frequently, because of my use of picture books as mentor texts, is: “Are picture books really complex enough for my
As you learned in my previous post, it’s time to throw the vocabulary list OUT! Students need the words in context, and they need practice
Give a list of vocabulary words to look up in the dictionary, write a sentence, and then take a quiz on Friday…… these practices
Text evidence… those two words are so important for a reading teacher! We want students to be able to infer and draw conclusions while using
One of the most common struggles teachers face is tackling TIME. There simply isn’t enough of it to cover all the skills and standards we