At forty-two pages, this teacher guide contains pre and post reading questions, homework suggestions, vocabulary words, comprehension questions (with suggested answers) and more!
Showing posts with label comprehension. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comprehension. Show all posts
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Teacher's Guide to the Red Pyramid
After forty-one chapters of Sadie, Carter, Zia, and the Egyptian gods, I'm pleased to announce my newest teacher guide is available on TpT!
At forty-two pages, this teacher guide contains pre and post reading questions, homework suggestions, vocabulary words, comprehension questions (with suggested answers) and more!
At forty-two pages, this teacher guide contains pre and post reading questions, homework suggestions, vocabulary words, comprehension questions (with suggested answers) and more!
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Final meeting for Book Club
Last week was our final meeting for Battle of the Books. Our school competitions are this coming week and the district finals are on the 25th of April. I'm excited to take my winning team to face off against the other schools.
I haven't given them any instruction on the books and they held their own small groups. I'm really proud of how much work they've put into this competition.
One of them even made treats, which was adorable:
Plus they're loving book jeopardy!
I promised my students we'd play with our small group books during standardized testing time (since they'll need something fun after a long day of bubbling!).
I love watching how much they love reading.
I haven't given them any instruction on the books and they held their own small groups. I'm really proud of how much work they've put into this competition.
One of them even made treats, which was adorable:
Plus they're loving book jeopardy!
I promised my students we'd play with our small group books during standardized testing time (since they'll need something fun after a long day of bubbling!).
I love watching how much they love reading.
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Book Jeopardy
With our school's Battle of the Books competition slowly approaching, many of my teams are done with their reading and instead are focusing on comprehension questions. To help them, I created a mock up of their real competition:
Yes, we played book jeopardy. Their real rounds will be on the smart board in an official competition, but I wanted to get them familiar with the process. I also didn't quiz them on any of the competition books, but rather the books we've read together in our small groups. Next week they'll play with the books for the competition and the week after that is our school's rounds. Next week they'll create the questions for each other and trade with other teams.
I'm excited for how well they've done! 90% of the students who started with me are following through with the competition!
Yes, we played book jeopardy. Their real rounds will be on the smart board in an official competition, but I wanted to get them familiar with the process. I also didn't quiz them on any of the competition books, but rather the books we've read together in our small groups. Next week they'll play with the books for the competition and the week after that is our school's rounds. Next week they'll create the questions for each other and trade with other teams.
I'm excited for how well they've done! 90% of the students who started with me are following through with the competition!
Sunday, March 9, 2014
FCRR Shout Out
I've blogged about FCRR before and it's a wonderful free resource for literacy stations. I love that it's broken up into grade level bands (K-1, 2-3 and 4-5) as well as into the big 5 components of literacy instruction (phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, phonics and comprehension). They've also revised many of their student activities to align with the Common Core State Standards, which is also extremely helpful.
I've used the stations with my intervention groups and during my small groups. I especially like the fluency stations at the beginning of the year when I'm explicitly teaching the four components of fluency (accuracy, rate, expression and phrasing).
Since it was reading week last week, I took advantage of the lax schedule (we had assemblies and Discovery Education testing as well) to play some reading games with my students (when they weren't being pulled to make up missed assignments, since the trimester ended Friday).
One of the stations they played was "fact and opinion football":
I had a group of football fans fully entertained for a good twenty minutes. When they ran out of cards, I had them make up their own statements for the group to guess.
The second station was "incredible inferences":
(Yes, my classroom rug is polka dotted...that's just how I roll!)
I used counters from our math kit as pieces, but you can use virtually anything. I'm pretty sure almost every teacher I've met has some sort of kit of pieces.
They had a great time with these reading games and I liked the skills that were reinforced. I know many of my students struggle with getting past the literal words in the text, so this was a fun way for them to practice "digging deep" and making meaning of the text. They're getting there with inferences!
Happy reading :)
I've used the stations with my intervention groups and during my small groups. I especially like the fluency stations at the beginning of the year when I'm explicitly teaching the four components of fluency (accuracy, rate, expression and phrasing).
Since it was reading week last week, I took advantage of the lax schedule (we had assemblies and Discovery Education testing as well) to play some reading games with my students (when they weren't being pulled to make up missed assignments, since the trimester ended Friday).
One of the stations they played was "fact and opinion football":
I had a group of football fans fully entertained for a good twenty minutes. When they ran out of cards, I had them make up their own statements for the group to guess.
The second station was "incredible inferences":
(Yes, my classroom rug is polka dotted...that's just how I roll!)
I used counters from our math kit as pieces, but you can use virtually anything. I'm pretty sure almost every teacher I've met has some sort of kit of pieces.
They had a great time with these reading games and I liked the skills that were reinforced. I know many of my students struggle with getting past the literal words in the text, so this was a fun way for them to practice "digging deep" and making meaning of the text. They're getting there with inferences!
Happy reading :)
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Novel Guide: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Yet another product has been revised and posted on TpT! Like my other novel guides, this product has suggested spelling and vocabulary words, pre and post reading activities, homework questions for each chapter and comprehension questions with suggested answers for each chapter.
I've truly done all the prep work for you! (Since I love reading and the Harry Potter series, it wasn't really work.)
Snag yours here!
I've truly done all the prep work for you! (Since I love reading and the Harry Potter series, it wasn't really work.)
Snag yours here!
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
#95! Comprehension Question Stems
I'm pleased to announce my favorite center is now available on TpT!
I'm an advocate of guided release, which means over the course of our school year, I relinguish more and more control to my students. This comprehension station perfectly aligns with this teaching practice.
This mega center (50+ pages) includes question stems to help students guide their own discussions. It is color coded and includes different fonts for easy clean up!
The skills that students will practice are:
Snapshots of the center:
This product is priced at $6.00 on TpT, which is quite a bargain considering it is 59 pages long!
The best part is this station can be used for literature or informational text! (The second best parts are that the center is in color and uses fun chevron prints!)
I'm an advocate of guided release, which means over the course of our school year, I relinguish more and more control to my students. This comprehension station perfectly aligns with this teaching practice.
This mega center (50+ pages) includes question stems to help students guide their own discussions. It is color coded and includes different fonts for easy clean up!
The skills that students will practice are:
Snapshots of the center:
This product is priced at $6.00 on TpT, which is quite a bargain considering it is 59 pages long!
The best part is this station can be used for literature or informational text! (The second best parts are that the center is in color and uses fun chevron prints!)
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Novel Guides
Teacher guides for J.K. Rowling's The Goblet of Fire and The Half-Blood Prince are now available on TpT!
Each guide contains suggested spelling or vocabulary words, pre-reading predictions, comprehension questions with suggested answers for each chapter, homework questions and post-reading extension activities!
Both guides are quite lengthy (28 and 33 pages respectively) and are quite the bargain! I've done the prep for you :)
Snag yours here!
Happy reading :)
Each guide contains suggested spelling or vocabulary words, pre-reading predictions, comprehension questions with suggested answers for each chapter, homework questions and post-reading extension activities!
Both guides are quite lengthy (28 and 33 pages respectively) and are quite the bargain! I've done the prep for you :)
Snag yours here!
Happy reading :)
Monday, December 16, 2013
New chronological order sort!
A chronological order sorts for Lois Ruby's Steal Away Home is now available on TpT!
The sort is 18 pages long with an included answer key.
My students love these sorts and hopefully yours will too!
The sort is 18 pages long with an included answer key.
My students love these sorts and hopefully yours will too!
Sunday, November 10, 2013
FCRR
One of my absolute favorite websites for free literacy centers is FCRR.org. Funded by the Florida Center for Reading Research, the student activities are not only broken up into grade level bands (K-1, 2-3 and 4-5), but broken into the big 5 (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, comprehension and vocabulary). Furthermore, because it wasn't awesome enough, the centers are fairly straight forward, almost everything you need is included and they're organized in a logical, straightforward manner. (What isn't included is die, pieces, etc but those are easy to find).
Plus, they're aligned to the Common Core State Standards!
These are great for reteaching standards, literacy stations and interventions.
In a perfect world, I had my centers printed on different colors of card stock to distinguish fluency from comprehension and so forth. It started out this way...but then I ran out of card stock.
Since that organizational strategy didn't work, I stuck to printing my lower level stations (2-3) on bright yellow card stock so I'd be able to quickly differentiate without students knowing.
They're accustomed to groups getting different colored stations (so I can easily pick up the forgotten pieces & put them where they go), but they don't always realize the colors signal the different ability levels.
Happy reading!
Plus, they're aligned to the Common Core State Standards!
These are great for reteaching standards, literacy stations and interventions.
In a perfect world, I had my centers printed on different colors of card stock to distinguish fluency from comprehension and so forth. It started out this way...but then I ran out of card stock.
Since that organizational strategy didn't work, I stuck to printing my lower level stations (2-3) on bright yellow card stock so I'd be able to quickly differentiate without students knowing.
They're accustomed to groups getting different colored stations (so I can easily pick up the forgotten pieces & put them where they go), but they don't always realize the colors signal the different ability levels.
Happy reading!
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