The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the reading strategy of evaluating and brings all of the reading strategies together.
The purpose of the video lesson is to outline effective reading strategies that good readers use. They include: predicting, making connections, visualizing, monitoring your own comprehension, determining importance, making inferences, questioning, summarizing and synthesizing.
The purpose of the video lesson is to review the making connections reading strategies, including text-to-self , text-to-text, text-to-world connections.
The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the reading strategy of making inferences. The accompanying handouts (1)give scenarios that students make inferences from and (2)has students identify details or facts from the reading and the inferences that can be made from the detail or fact.
The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the strategies for monitoring comprehension. The accompanying handout provides a "Fix-Up Strategies Bookmark".
The purpose of the video lesson is to outline effective techniques for making predictions while you read. Predicting strategies include:
-First Lines
-Anticipation Guide
-DRTA (Directed Reading Thinking Activity)
The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the reading strategy of questioning. It outlines the types of questions ("in the book questions": right there, think-search-find and "in my head questions": author and me, on my own). The accompanying handouts outline the types of questions and before-during-after questions/prompts.
The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the reading strategy of summarizing. It gives the rules for summarizing that students can follow. The accompanying handout requires students to practice summarizing with the "Sum It Up" strategy and can be used with any text.
The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the reading strategy of synthesizing. The accompanying handout has students practice the strategy of synthesizing.
The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the reading strategy of visualization. The accompanying handout outlines the strategy and gives the opportunity for students to practice.
This handout provides helpful hints that students can use to increase their oral reading fluency.
The purpose of the video lesson is to outline effective reading strategies that good readers use. They include: predicting, making connections, visualizing, monitoring your own comprehension, determining importance, making inferences, questioning, summarizing and synthesizing. The accompanying handout is a survey in which students reflect on their use of the reading strategies.
This handout outlines how the design elements of a poster, brochure, or advertisement help to set the mood and send a message. Design elements include: color, line, shape, type of lettering and use of space.
This handout outlines the process of writing a multi-paragraph report.
The purpose of the video lesson is to review drawing inferences (reading between the lines). The accompanying handout has the student read a short story. They practice looking at the story details and then drawing inferences from the evidence. The assignment can be completed with any story that requires the reader to draw inferences.
This resource offers video lessons on each of the letter sounds as outlined by the Jolly Phonics program. The video lessons cover the sound and action for each sound , as well as stories and letter formation.
Additional phonetic rules covered are: magic "e", vowels sounds of y, and the rule "when 2 vowels go walking".
This visual is an excellent reminder for grade one students of the different strategies to follow when encountering new words while reading.
Included in this resource are video lessons that are good models of ways to explore the different word families. The accompanying handouts support and provide activities/practice for each family. Although the lessons often refer to the Cornerstones primary resource, the lessons are valuable for the introduction and use of word families in grade 1 ELA.
This resource provides a step-by-step overview of the writing process.
Included:
A YouTube video that outlines the writing process
Handout: HO-4 The Writing Process Unit 1 (overview sheet)
This resource includes 5 videos for each of 5 weeks to assist students in developing writing trait skills in the following areas:
-Ideas
-Organization
-Word Choice
-Sentence Fluency
-Voice
**Please note: Conventions is embedded throughout