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Do you have restless students during readers' workshop? Are you looking for ways to engage students with the text? I ...

Students struggle using text features when reading expository text. We need to provide students the tools to understand what they ...

Pre-reading activities help the students prepare before reading. Like most things we do, planning happens first. Gardening, scrapbooking, and cooking ...

What is a graphic organizer template? A graphic organizer templates is a template that is organizes ideas from what was ...

Idiom for the day is a great way to involve students in learning how figurative language works. Having seasonal idioms ...

A Bio Poem Students enjoy writing about their hobbies and interests. A bio poem is a short poem for students ...

A suffix is one or more letters that are found at the end of a word. In the word, "cautious" ...

Reading strategies support comprehension in reading. They help scaffold the students' thinking, reading, note-taking skills, and writing. Reading Fiction Fictional ...

Literary graphic organizers can help guide the students' thinking as well as improve their sense of story. Literary elements are ...

Literature Circles are a great way to have student led discussions. What is a literature circle? It is a small ...

Goal setting worksheets guide students on their journey similar to how a map guides us when taking a road trip ...

Study habits are more important than ever before. My own children will be learning remotely this fall. I organized a ...

Summer of 2019, I made a bitmoji using my iPhone. It was fun and relaxing. I had flashbacks on taking ...

Technology in literacy is engaging for students. Are you looking for ways to use technology to help monitor students? There ...

Book reports templates provide a framework to explain the content of a book. Whether a student reports on a fiction ...

Prefix Worksheets have an important role in word study. Prefixes as we know are composed of two or more letters ...

Character analysis templates help students take notes on how the characters feel and act. As you begin to read fictional ...

Spelling practice is an important component of any literacy program. I use word work as part of my middle school ...

For many years, I asked comprehension questions from the text and called on students to answer. The problem with that ...

Writers organize nonfiction text into five text structures. They are description, sequence, compare and contrast, cause and effect, problem and ...

Text features for nonfiction are a great tool to help students focus on their reading. Most of the reading material ...