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Do you have restless students during readers' workshop? Are you looking for ways to engage students with the text? I ...
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Students struggle using text features when reading expository text. We need to provide students the tools to understand what they ...
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Pre-reading activities help the students prepare before reading. Like most things we do, planning happens first. Gardening, scrapbooking, and cooking ...
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What is a graphic organizer template? A graphic organizer templates is a template that is organizes ideas from what was ...
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Idiom for the day is a great way to involve students in learning how figurative language works. Having seasonal idioms ...
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Write A Bio Poem Students enjoy writing about their hobbies and interests. A bio poem is a short poem for ...
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A suffix is one or more letters that are found at the end of a word. In the word, "cautious" ...
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Reading strategies support comprehension in reading. They help scaffold the students' thinking, reading, note-taking skills, and writing. Reading Fiction Fictional ...
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Literary graphic organizers can help guide the students' thinking as well as improve their sense of story. Literary elements are ...
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Literature Circles are a great way to have student led discussions. Students get a sense of responsibility, accountability, and cooperation ...
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Goal setting worksheets guide students on their journey similar to how a map guides us when taking a road trip ...
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Study habits are more important than ever before. My own children will be learning remotely this fall. I organized a ...
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Summer of 2019, I made a bitmoji using my iPhone. It was fun and relaxing. I had flashbacks on taking ...
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Technology in literacy is engaging for students. Are you looking for ways to use technology to help monitor students? There ...
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Book reports templates provide a framework to explain the content of a book. Whether a student reports on a fiction ...
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Prefix Worksheets have an important role in word study. Prefixes as we know are composed of two or more letters ...
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Character analysis templates help students take notes on how the characters feel and act. As you begin to read fictional ...
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Spelling practice is an important component of any literacy program. I use word work as part of my middle school ...
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For many years, I asked comprehension questions from the text and called on students to answer. The problem with that ...
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Writers organize nonfiction text into five text structures. They are description, sequence, compare and contrast, cause and effect, problem and ...
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Text features for nonfiction are a great tool to help students focus on their reading. Most of the reading material ...
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