Ways that first graders use technology. Having a well equipped technological classroom can benefit students greatly in all areas including language arts.
Children's poetry by Meadowbrook Press. Lots of funny poems, poetry contests and more! Ideas for educators on teaching poetry in fun and interesting ways.
Reading, writing and spelling and grammar skills can help you tell a story, share your ideas, write a letter and make sense of instructions. We use them everyday and they help us understand each other.
Speakaboos is an educational resource for the classroom and home. Each story comes to life with educational activities, and games. Speakaboos timeless tales are ideal for kids of any age.
Classic Fairy Tales: animated Flash fairy tales retell classic stories by Hans Christian Andersen and the brothers Grimm. Including games and educational activities for kids relating to fairy tales
Writer's Workshop consists of a mini-lesson, student writing time, and author's chair share each day in our classroom. Read more about our Writer's Workshop below! Writer's workshop begins with a mini-lesson. Mini-lessons are short 5-15 minute lessons in which the teacher addresses writers' needs.
Explicit strategy instruction is at the core of good comprehension instruction. Teachers should help students to understand why a strategy is useful, how it is used, and when it is appropriate. The most frequently researched strategies can be applied across content areas; other content-area specific strategies are emerging, and we will include them here in the future.
This site gives before, during and after reading ideas. I like the "thinkmark" idea... I had never heard of it before. Sounds like a neat way to have students respond to reading.
Creative way to teach reading and writing especially to the emergent, early/beginning readers. Through reading and writing poetry your children will be able to express their feelings, thoughts and imagination about silly to serious topics. We read and write lots of different poetry in first grade.
Here you'll find poems for each month of the year.
This site has info. on new children's books and classics. It also provides Trivia questions on books and gives kid friendly author information. May be good to use with author studies in the classroom.
A collection of pre-made webquests! There are several that go along with really great books such as Chrysanthemum and The Mitten. There are also quests for poetry and fables. Enjoy.
At this website you can find all sorts of literacy activities for each holiday. Just click on the holiday and begin exploring! For St. Patrick's day you will find a list of picture books that are great for St. Patty's day... http://www.theholidayzone.com/stpat/books.html.
There's also some neat discussion question ideas available as well. enjoy.
Task cards are a great way for students to work independently by being prompted with a series of activities to complete or questions to answer. Task cards are easy to make and are very efficient. Listed on this website are some Literacy based task cards created by Mrs. McDavid for Literacy Centers.
This site has ideas for literacy stations. There are lots of books you are most likely familiar with and the stations are themed. They also include Sci. & S.S & math!
I have said it before.. I think I'm addicted to teacher blogs. Now there's a site for me!!! This blog has a little of everything. Check out the St. Patrick's Day & Dr. Seuss Day ideas.
This site is awesome. Use it to play literacy games with your students, use in a center, or even use to help students become familiar with keyboarding. Click on Storybooks and it will read to your students :).
