Resources for using "Determining Importance" as a reading strategy in the classroom.
Students read Raymond Carver's story "A Small, Good Thing," focusing on characterization in order to develop one of the static characters: the hit-and-run driver who causes ScottyŐs death: more fully.
Students will love unwrapping this lesson about before, during, and after reading activities based on Margaree King MitchellŐs book, "GrandaddyŐs Gift".
Students analyze their past readings and use that knowledge to create reading plans for the future.
Student pairs aim to be the first team to call out "bingo" in this lesson in which they use skimming and scanning to locate information about ancient Greece and Rome.
Lights, camera, action, and a bit of mystery! In this lesson, students use mystery props in a skit bag to create and perform in short, impromptu skits.
ŇThatŐs my position and IŐm sticking to it!Ó After reading about the Korean War, students will take a position in response to an open-ended question, support their position, and evaluate that support.
Students collaboratively interact with a variety of texts as they define reading and develop their own ReaderŐs Profiles modeled after online social networking sites.
Using the guiding question, "What is reading?" students interact with a variety of texts as they uncover the skills necessary to interact with texts and develop a definition of reading.
Here are the supports needed for the DRA from Shari Martin of Sun West Division. The following are included:Correlation Table of Diagnostic Leveled Reading Assessments in Use in SaskatchewanFinding the Reading Level using DRADRA Quick Guide HandbookEligible Students for the OutcomeDRA Recording Tool from Sun West DivisionGrades 1 to 5
Students compare the traits fact and fiction by using a Venn diagram to compare fiction and nonfiction books about Native Americans.
This online tool enables students to learn about and write diamante poems.
Mrs. Crowell takes her 2nd and 3rd graders on a nature walk where they use a dichotomous key to identify different species they encounter. This lesson shows a simple way to take students out on a walk and teach them how to identify species, no matter where they are.
Several links for different drawing/art projects are included in this resource.
This is the Listening Guide for the October 14th, 2020 Read Aloud of "Dick Whittington," a story from England.
Use as a dictonary, to do word of the day with students or a thesaurus. It also has games.
If your student/child is not sure what they can write, use this handy chart from Scholastic to get them started. There are so many choices!
Differentiation is a teaching method that varies the content, process, product or learning environment relate to student interest, learning profile or readiness.
A read-aloud of Patricia PolaccoŐs "Thank You, Mr. Falker" helps promote deeper comprehension through questioning to achieve personal connections and discussions of character and theme.
This lesson, in which students research worms in order to create a classroom habitat, incorporates reading and writing across content areas as well as math and science activities.