Reading workshop

Do you use reading response journals during independent reading time? I made a free reading response journal prompts menu for you to use.

Reading comprehension is the ultimate goal of teaching students how to read. Here is a good image of a reading comprehension checklist of most, if not all, of the strategies taught in the primary grades

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How do you develop Kindergarten reading comprehension? Here are some tips and a look at these purposeful Kindergarten response worksheets.

Learn how to plan and master your reader's workshop mini lesson so that you can boost readers with solid teaching points.

It is important that you use the first few weeks of reading to launch your workshop. One thing that I like to do during this time is create reading workshop anchor charts. Creating anchor charts for reading workshop is an important part of instruction. Reading workshop expectations anchor charts can be prepared ahead of time but students should have an active role it its creation. Click the pin to see 5 anchor charts to launch reading workshop!

reading anchor chart

Today, I want to share my lessons and goals for the first few days in reading workshop with you. It is going to be the first day of school real soon {maybe some of you are already back in the swing of things!} and you are going to be busy! You will surely have a list a mile long of the thi

Not sure where to start when it comes to creating a Reading Response Journal? This post shares my favorite tool to use!

Reading strategies useful in every content area include Questioning the text, Visualization, and using Context Clues to infer meaning.

An Upper Elementary Collaborative blog written by 13 teachers. Includes teaching ideas and resources for grades 3, 4, and 5.

Jivey breaks down her reading workshop schedule to share what is done in each section of that short time!

Looking for tips to keep your reading mini lesson and writing mini lesson short and concise? Try these easy to implement tips to keep your mini lessons short and mini.

good readers

Are you wondering the best strategy for introducing readers' notebooks to your students?

These are all the ideas the students came up with about what good readers look like during independent reading time. We also named him Roel thanks to my intern teacher!

This week, we learned … … there’s a lost continent in the Indian Ocean. How do you lose a continent? What’s a microcontinent? How’d scientists find the lost continent? … how Ikea names…

Running reading centers in your classroom is extremely beneficial! Find some easy to set up literacy center ideas and how to plan & run them effectively for your upper elementary students to enrich your 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade ELA block.

Hello Everyone! I almost forgot to post one other thing. I have had a ton of questions and e-mails about my story retelling rope that I posted on last year.You can read about that here! :) I have been doing retelling ropes for a long time. Does anybody remember "Project Read?" The author of that amazing curriculum was my inspiration for this way of teaching kids about the parts of a story and extending that into retelling. "Retelling" is an important component of discriminating comprehension…