Amazing blog from an amazing teacher who posts about VERY creative methods and activities that she uses to teach literacy both in ELA and SS classes in HS. What she does is all real-world, CC aligned, and so interesting.
"A video library for K-12 teachers; 29 half-hour and 3 one-hour video programs, library guide, and Web site" Teacher resources and development across curriculum.
We created this mini-book to help guide your students through the reading of nonfiction texts. This booklet can be used with a nonfiction book or even a chapter in a textbook. This booklet encourages students to make predictions about what they will learn. They also record new vocabulary words and practice finding the main idea and details.
These are Common Core aligned interactive reading journals that the fourth grade students have been working on. Instead of binders, these students were given blank books to take notes in. As I read text aloud, students create their own books.
Landscape-view bright and colorful poster for the ELL/SIOP reading strategy of Squeepers. Printable for classroom use, or can just be in a presentation to teach students the skill.
A bright, colorful 7-page document that you could print for a classroom poster/anchor chart or to just use in a presentation for students that summarizes the SIOP reading strategy: Squeepers. PDF.