Teachers are aware that understanding vocabulary is crucial to reading comprehension, but we want students to do more than just “know it when they read it.” We hope our students can adopt these words into their repertoire and improve their writing and speaking vocabulary as well. As I mentioned in this past post filled with […]
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What Should I Do During Each Close Read?
Honest talk here. Close reading turns those mini-lessons into MAXI-lessons if you try to fit in all that you want to do with a text in one day. Let’s look at why: Even though close reading is done with short texts, the time it takes to dig deep shouldn’t be short because… the texts should […]
Your Guide to Engaging Students as Thinking Readers
How many times as an adult have you been reading a book and realize at the end of the page, you didn’t really READ any of it? Sure, your eyes looked at every word, but you don’t actually recall understanding those words. It’s because you weren’t thinking about the text. Your mind probably drifted off […]
I love this from Ashleigh on TpT to help students understand growth mindset! Embrace the struggle and don’t give up!
Check out these amazing imitation sentences from Stacey Geiger’s class! WOW!! Those of you that use my resources, do you recognize the sentence structure? From what book are these imitated? (I knew right away when I saw the picture!)
She says, “Mentor sentences have been a game changer! Each week I choose exemplar sentences that follow the model. Kids are working so hard to have their sentence chosen. They are using a thesaurus and searching for vivid verbs and awesome adjectives. They’re using proper capitalization and punctuation (for the most part). I wish I would’ve started mentor sentences much sooner. So much better than the grammar workbooks I had.”
