tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79420574436756805712024-03-18T19:48:56.645-04:00I {heart} RecessThe best part of the day!I {Heart} Recess http://www.blogger.com/profile/03255879738122896753noreply@blogger.comBlogger315125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7942057443675680571.post-2223765000181010212017-03-11T17:42:00.000-05:002017-03-11T17:42:01.610-05:00Read Across America Week<div style="text-align: center;">
This year I was finally ready to make Read Across America Week a school wide event! I've always loved this day/week while in the classroom, but hadn't planned a school wide event as an instructional coach the past two year. Not anymore!</div>
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I am Type A personality and a natural planner. I started planning for this week two weeks in advance and started prepping my teachers just as early. Here are a few things we did throughout the week.</div>
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Each day students and staff were encouraged to dress up corresponding to a Dr. Seuss book (red handout). I scheduled guest readers to read to our classes throughout the week, I found it easier to schedule this way instead of on one particular day. Each class filled out a thank you card for their reader to go with a goody bag I made. </div>
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Our morning announcements are provided by our students on the morning news, so this week we played book BINGO. I created 24 different BINGO boards and passed them out to each class. On the morning news the students drew two books, and classes marked off the books. Friday morning we still didn't have a BINGO so the kids pulled books until a class called down with a BINGO. The winning class won a popcorn party during their Read-A-Thon. </div>
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Our school implements a PBIS like model and students earn Patriot Dollars for demonstrating leadership. To encourage students to read during our Read-A-Thon on Friday I provided teachers with special blue cat in the hat patriot dollars. </div>
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(I will share more about our Read-A-Thon further in this post.)</div>
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As you enter our school we have a pretty large lobby. I asked my principal if I could decorate it, I actually said can I go big or go home. :) She said go for it and that was all I needed to create my own Seussville.</div>
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Half way through the green hills I had that thought of "what was I thinking", but loved how the lobby turned out. Everyone was sad to see it come down at the end of the week, darn fire marshals. :)</div>
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I held a bulletin board contest for teachers this week, and our guest readers were are judges because prizes were involved. I loved seeing the Seuss theme throughout the entire building!</div>
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The First place winner choose the $10 TpT gift card, second place choose the cold stone gift card, and third place won the duty free recess pass. </div>
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Monday was Fox in Sox day! I made these shirts for my admin and I.</div>
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Tuesday was "Who-ville" day, aka crazy hair day. I had wanted to get hidden rainbow hair this spring, but thought why not now for Seuss week! I absolutely LOVE how it turned out and plan on keeping it for awhile.</div>
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We are on a A/B week schedule for our enhancements. Students go to Library or computer lab depending on the week. I wanted them to experience a fun activity tied to Seuss so I hijacked the computer lab and library by setting up a Seuss Mystery. I used the following <a href="http://libraryeverything.blogspot.com/2013/03/seusstastic-mystery-in-library-revealed.html" target="_blank">blog post</a> as my inspiration. Our students LOVED it! The students were telling everyone about the crime scene mystery they solved!</div>
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Through out the week we invited parents, central service people, and maintenance workers from the district to come read to our kids. I wanted a lot of positive male role models for our boys, especially for reading. They see our maintenance workers often and I felt it was important for them to help show students that reading can be fun. We are a 3-5 school so I scheduled majority of our male readers with 4th and 5th grade classes.</div>
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Friday was pajama day and our school wide Read-A-Thon! I took inspiration from my girls Joanne at <a href="http://www.headoverheelsforteaching.com/2016/03/spark-student-motivation-read-thon.html" target="_blank">Head over Heels for Teaching</a> and Amelia from <a href="http://www.wherethewildthingslearn.com/2016/11/read-thon-2016.html" target="_blank">Where the Wild Things Learn</a>. I provided the teachers with a schedule, asked students to bring in flashlights, sunglasses/silly glasses, blankets or beach towels, and snacks. </div>
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The last two reading sessions teachers were encouraged to take their students outside, or use a link I sent them for a fire or beach scene on the smartboard.</div>
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During the Read-A-Thon teachers passed out the blue Patriot dollars to students who were on task. Students wrote their names and teachers names on the back and turned them in at the end of the Read-A-Thon. I then went on the school news and pulled seven blue Patriot dollars out of the bin for the students to win a brand new book. ALL names drawn were 5th grade BOYS!!! </div>
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As an instructional coach you don't see your hard work reflected back as much as you do as a classroom teacher. During this week my heart was FULL! Friday morning when I saw all the students coming in with their pjs, blankets, flashlights, sunglasses, and snacks my heart felt like it was going to explode! All our children were excited for a morning of reading. Walking through the classrooms and seeing over 500 students reading is one of the best feelings in the world.</div>
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This post is a collection of thoughts and emotions I have had over the past few months, as an educator and as a mother.<br />
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There are many different ways to run a classroom, teach a skill, hold students accountable, grade, assess, and everything else we do as educators. This is what is wonderful about education, no two classrooms or lessons are the same. Our teaching experiences, professional development backgrounds, and life experiences are all different just like the twenty plus students in our classrooms. These experiences are what make us the teacher we are today, but are we reflecting on the practices we are using or just doing what we have always done because it's what is easiest?<br />
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Do you know why you require students to complete a Reading Log? Do you know why you are implementing Flexible Seating? Do you know why you assign that spiral review homework every night? Are you doing these practices because everyone else is, because that's how you have always done it, or because someone has mandated you do so? Is your why what is best for students or what is best for you?<br />
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In recent weeks I have had several conversations with teachers, both in person and online, and what I've noticed is that we don't always use practices that are best for our students, nor do we often ask ourselves this question. One conversation in particular we discussed the hot topic of requiring students to have their parent sign their reading log. This particular teacher takes off 5 points if a student doesn't have it signed. When I asked if she understood that not all children have supportive parents at home, she said yes and that she doesn't take points off of their reading log. To answer your question....yes, she only takes points away from students who do have supportive parents at home.<br />
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Now, I'm going to be very honest here and tell you that the "NorthernBelle" (aka. Raised as a New Yorker and living in the South for 13 years) in me did come out. I explained to this teacher that at no point is it appropriate to take points away from a child if their parent fails to sign something. Her "why" is that she is trying to teach her children responsibility. Is this really a best practice to use to teach responsibility? Isn't holding the child accountable for reading each night and writing a summary teaching them responsibility?<br />
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In another conversation with a few teachers we discussed grades, ELA grades to be specific. In this district Reading Comprehension, Spelling, and Writing are all combined for a student's ELA grade. Progress reports recently went out at the time of our discussion, therefor the grades reflected about 4 and half weeks of work. Below are the grades each teacher had in their grade book.<br />
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Teacher 1 had grades for 3 spelling test (40% of the grade), 2 reading logs (20%), and one writing assignment (20%).<br />
Teacher 2 had grades for one reading comprehension (30%) and one math grade in the ELA (30%)<br />
Teacher 3 had grades for spelling test (40%), word work (30%), and 2 Scholastic Weekly Readers (30%)<br />
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My concern as an educator and as a mother was...do those grades truly demonstrate the children's proficiency in ELA? Other reflective questions I had were: If you don't have any reading comprehension grades, what have you been doing for the first month of school regarding ELA? Does the practice you use to obtain grades accurately show if a student is proficient? There wasn't a single activity you did for a month of reading instruction that you could use as a reading comprehension grade?<br />
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There are many more practices used by teachers that may not always be the best practice. As an educator it is our responsibility to be life long learners and to always do what is best for students. I urge each of you to reflect on some of the practices you implement within your own classrooms. Are these practices beneficial to your students and their ability to learn and demonstrate proficiency? Are they encouraging your students to be life long learners themselves?<br />
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<br />I {Heart} Recess http://www.blogger.com/profile/03255879738122896753noreply@blogger.com109tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7942057443675680571.post-60928872543276218442016-07-07T00:25:00.000-04:002016-07-07T00:25:02.816-04:00Implementing Literacy Centers in Upper Grades<div style="text-align: center;">
Do you feel a little stressed when you hear the word "centers"? Upper elementary teachers often relate the word "center" to cute, time consuming, and busy work. Although, those can be what centers are, but that's not what they should be in your classroom.</div>
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Centers or Stations should require students to focus on the domains of reading, require them to apply skills that have been taught, and quality rather than quantity should be your main focus. Once you have your Guided Reading system figured out, your next step is to determine what the rest of your class is doing while you meet with your small groups. </div>
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When setting up your centers you need to determine if your students are going to rotate, work off of a menu/contract, how many centers are they required to complete each day, etc. Don't be afraid to try different ways of implementing centers in your classroom. What works for the teacher across the hall may not work of you or your students. Once you have determined your rotation or menu now you need to decide what your students are going to work on.</div>
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As educators we know the importance of sitting down and reading a text, so why not make it an option during your centers. If your school doesn't have a set time for silent reading then this is the first center I would implement. Students can silently read a text of their choice for a set amount of time. Allowing students to have a book bin or bag full of texts ensures they have enough reading materials, providing them choice, and teaching them it's okay to abandon a book but not the center.<br />
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In the upper grades comprehension of the five domains of reading is one we focus on more than others. Having students complete an assignment or task related to the text you read during shared reading, or directly related to the standard you are currently teaching, makes a wonderful literacy center. Students can complete task cards, passages, and or text dependent questions.<br />
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Students should work on the meaning of words and not just how to spell words during this center. Providing them with a variety of activities to keep them engaged is key. In the upper grades of elementary I suggest using the standards to help you and your students focus on what to utilize in your word work center. Example synonyms, antonyms, prefixes, root words, and suffixes are great place to start. I love the free activities Melissa from <a href="http://www.upperelementarysnapshots.com/2015/12/tips-tricks-and-tools-for-teaching.html" target="_blank">Upper Elementary Snapshots</a> offers in her post. Kristen from Chalk & Apples has a wonderful product for <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Word-Work-for-Big-Kids-Vocabulary-Activities-865829" target="_blank">Word Work</a> and <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Word-Work-for-Big-Kids-Spelling-Activities-1750968" target="_blank">Spelling</a> centers for upper elementary. Please, Please, Please I beg you NOT to include "Rainbow Writing" in your spelling center. There is never an appropriate time for 3-5 students to participate in this activity. Your center should always provide meaningful learning opportunities for your students.<br />
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Utilizing technology in your literacy centers is a great way to engage students. Even if you have limited technology there are some great ways to utilize what you have. If you have one or two computers or tablets you can pull up a set of task cards you have purchased or downloaded in pdf format. Students can work independently, in pairs, or in a team to solve the questions on the task cards. Students can record their answers on a sheet of paper or journal as they use the arrow keys to scroll down through the questions. Here is a free copy of my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Point-of-View-Task-Cards-Freebie-2204642" target="_blank">Point of View task cards</a> for you and your students.<br />
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I love planning for my writing center! For me this is the easiest to plan for :) Students can work on their independent writing assignment, journal write, work on grammar skills, conference with a peer, etc. The possibilities are endless! In this center I would keep a variety of resources for your students to access to help them with the writing process. A mentor text, writing office, pictures or copies of Anchor charts, variety of writing utensils, writing prompts, wordless picture books, etc.<br />
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I hope these ideas will help you start planning for your ELA block this coming school year. When you start to implement Guided Reading and centers the key to a successful year of centers is to train your students on how to complete each center. You should introduce ONE center a week for the whole class. During this time you will teach your expectations for their voice volume, work requirements, and how to ask and answer their classmates questions because you are not to be interrupted when you are with a group.<br />
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For example I always introduce my silent reading center first. For the first week on Monday I explain the center, students will silently read with their book bin on their desk. I explain that my expectation is for them to read silently, any book from their book bin, and to complete a written summary of what they read in their journal. I remind them that I am not to be interrupted when meeting with a student or group of students. Once I tell them to begin their Silent Reading center I sit at my Guided Reading table and will call a student over to complete a reading assessment, usually a Running Record. After 10-20 minutes I stop my students and praise them for meeting my expectations and address any issues that may have come up.<br />
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I complete these same steps for the rest of the week, slowly increasing their silent reading time to equal the amount of time I plan for them to be in this center. If you plan to allow your students to choose where they are going to sit I suggest allowing them to do so towards the end of the week. The second week I introduce a new center. For example it might be comprehension center, again I teach my expectations and review my expectations for silent reading center. Once students have completed the new center they will then move onto silent reading. Again, I will assess students for beginning of the year data.<br />
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I continue to introduce a center a week until all centers have been taught. As I complete my one-on-one assessments I will call a small group, 3-4 students, to my GR table to read a text. By doing this I am able to teach my students my expectations for moving from their center to me and my expectations for GR groups.<br />
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Implementing centers takes about a whole month, but worth the time! Once your students understand what you expect of them and are able to meet those expectations your ELA block will run smoothly for the remainder of the year. If you introduce new centers throughout the year it will not take as long to implement because your students will have the rest of them down.<br />
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There is an epidemic in our upper elementary math classes...teachers are not using manipulatives! Many teachers are still stuck to the belief that our children MUST memorize their facts and no longer use hands-on experiences in math. Our students in the upper grades are still children and enjoy learning through manipulatives, play, and interaction with others. </div>
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struggled with regrouping in addition and/or subtraction. This year I
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I created a small set of <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Addition-and-Subtraction-Base-Ten-Block-Task-Cards-for-Upper-Grades-1621897" target="_blank">task cards</a>
for these students, and those in your classroom too, for them to
practice and hopefully move over to the abstract level of thinking with
this skill. There are eight addition and eight subtraction task cards.
Each card has an equation represented by base ten blocks. I also
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Mental Math is another important math skill for our students. Fact fluency is not determined by how fast a student can remember their facts, but if they are fluent with manipulating numbers. Utilizing mental math to compose and decompose numbers is fundamental for students development of fact fluency.</div>
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I created these <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Mental-Math-Task-Cards-Making-Tens-2077298" target="_blank">task cards</a> to help students build on number relationships rather
than memorization procedures to solve problems. This set of task cards
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I'm excited to share with you my Target Dollar Banner today for #MondayMadeIt! </div>
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Each year our school chooses a school wide theme. This year Dr. Seuss
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I found this banner, along with many other items, in Target's Dollar Spot last week. I wasn't sure what I was going to do with it until a few days ago. </div>
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We are a Leader In Me school and I thought about labeling each piece with one of the 7 Habits and then decided to add Dr. Seuss quotes. I can use the banner this year on a bulletin board, in my office, and in my classroom in the future if I ever decide to leave Instructional Coaching. I planned my designs on my computer. </div>
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I cut out the quotes in vinyl, of course :), and then placed them on the banner. Half way through this project I asked myself why I choose such fancy fonts...it took forever to remove the unwanted vinyl before applying the quote to the banner. <br />
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I LOVE how the final project turned out!!! I added the Cat in the Hat hat in the middle to show who the author was for each quote since I failed to leave room for Seuss' name...oops. </div>
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A friend and I are heading to a different Target tomorrow, I can't wait to see what I find there! </div>
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I'm SUPER excited to share this week's <a href="http://4thgradefrolics.blogspot.com/2016/06/monday-made-it-june-27.html" target="_blank">#MondayMadeIt</a>! This was a week long project that turned out amazing! We have lived on our house for six years now and as my boys are getting older I am taking my house back! If you have little kids you know what I mean, you too are tired of the toys all over the place, the kiddie decor, and their "masterpieces" (aka writing on the walls) on every surface.</div>
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I've been busy pinning bathroom ideas for the boys' bathroom for awhile now and finally found a design my hubby also liked. I LOVE the fresh look of wainscotting! I know your wondering why I went with white with three boys. :) In our half bath we did a white beadboard wainscotting with dark brown, it is actually easier to take a Clorox wipe or Magic Eraser and clean up than the flat paint. </div>
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We choose a light gray paint to go with the white because this is a small bathroom with no natural light. One day we hope to add a small window above the shower. My hubby did an amazing job with the paneling! He did get a new nail gun out of this project, so he was pretty excited about that too.</div>
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Last week Hobby Lobby had all their metals, pictures, and almost everything else on sale for 50% off. We picked up the boat wall hanging, anchor towel bar (not sure what it's actual purpose is, but perfect for the hand towel), and the small blue boat.</div>
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A lesson we learned during this project was, don't forget that adding molding will make take up space. Last night we finally finished and starting putting up the finishing touches. Went to hang they mirror back up and discovered the the molding on the small wall cuts into the space needed for the mirror...oops! Thankfully my hubby was able to trim down the molding above the toilet to get the mirror to fit. </div>
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While at Target I picked up these bathroom accessories. The white trim and gray center were a perfect match for the bathroom. Since I add vinyl to anything that doesn't move I had to use them as an opportunity to add a little more red. :) </div>
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I LOVE how the boys' bathroom turned out! During this project my hubby said to me, "How did I know that you weren't going to just relax this summer, and that you were going to start some project?'. He knows me too well. Now to pin how to remove carpet from the stairs and how to replace the treads.<br />
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As I mentioned last week, I always used the summers to prep games and centers for my classroom. This week I've put my Wild-O games on sale at 20% off just for you! </div>
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I used the <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/2fortuesday-Decimal-Wild-O-Plays-like-UNO-1104564" target="_blank">Decimal Wild-O</a> during our decimals unit to reinforce the skill and their connection to fractions. Students match the color, image, fraction, or decimal as they play Wild-O (plays like UNO). You can see below how much students LOVE this game! </div>
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As an Instructional Coach I am often asked about how to teach Guided Reading to intermediate grades. After reflecting on this question and talking with several teachers I realized that those asking me for help were former primary teachers and that there were a lot of misconceptions related to guided reading in upper grades. </div>
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Yes and No. You will still group your students by their instructional needs, but how you meet those needs may look different. You will still meet with your small groups daily (if your schedule allows) and choose a variety of text to help your students become independent readers.</div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;">To create your small guided reading groups you will need to assess your students first. Your assessment should include a running record or any other type of assessment your district uses to help identify the reading instructional needs of your students. Once you have identified your students reading levels, strengths, and weaknesses you will group them into guided reading groups ranging from 3-6 students. You should avoid groups larger than 6 to ensure you can provide each individual student with quality instruction and attention.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">What materials should I use for my Guided Reading groups?</span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;">Any and all text types! Before meeting with each of your groups select texts that are on your students instructional reading level. Many teachers restrict themselves to only choosing picture books or chapter books for guided reading groups. Guiding students through passages, poems, recipes, online articles, newspapers, task cards, magazines, or letters/emails</span> </span>within the small group setting will help expose your students to a variety of rich texts, content, and text structures. A misconception many teachers have is that you must read the text cover to cover or in it's entirety. When selecting your text you may just want to focus on a chapter or two of a novel, a few lines or stanzas of a poem, a paragraph in a passage, or a section of a large article. The resources for guided reading groups are endless! If it contains text...use it!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;">Now you will plan your purpose and focus for using this particular text with your guided reading group. There are hundreds of guided reading lesson plan templates out there on Google, TpT, and other educational websites. I suggest finding a template that works for you. Almost all of the templates help you plan the following:</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;">Purpose: How will this text challenge your readers? How will it help them with comprehension skills?</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;">(decoding/vocabulary/fluency/comprehension)</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;">Before Reading Discussion/Activity: Introduction, Preview, New Vocabulary</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;">During Reading: Plan prompts and questions, model a strategy, etc.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">What do I have students do when I meet with them?</span></span></span></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;">Read!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;">Your guided reading lesson for Early and Transitional Readers will look slightly different than your lesson with your Fluent Readers.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;">Please note that these are <u>suggested</u> times, some groups may meet longer than others.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">My students are supposed to SILENTLY READ!?!</span> </span></span></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span>Yes! That DOES say your students are to SILENTLY READ when you have them at the guided reading table! The purpose of Guided Reading in the intermediate grades is to help create solid independent readers. During your Strategy Reminder/Purpose/Objective you will give your students a focus for their reading. For example the focus might be actions by the main character that help you identify the theme of the text. As students are silently reading they are looking for those actions within the text and/or jotting them down on a sticky note. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;">You will call on individual students to whisper read aloud to you as the rest of the group continues to silently read. As the student reads aloud to you you are making notes about the strategies the student is using (rereading, context clues, etc.). You might also reinforce strategies previously taught to help your student with decoding or engage in a discussion to assist in constructing meaning of the text. You might also complete a running record for progress monitoring purposes on a student while the rest of the group reads silently.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;">If you are a visual person like me I HIGHLY recommend purchasing Jan Richardson's Next Step Guided Reading in Action Videos. This product includes videos and a teaching guided for each video. She models a transitional and fluent reading group. I used these videos during my Guided Reading PD this year, my teachers learned a lot from each clip.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black;">Other questions from teachers about Guided Reading in the intermediate grades I often get are, "What are the rest of my students doing when I'm with a group?" and "How often should I meet with each group?". I hope you stop by next week to read my response and management ideas for each of these questions next week. :) Read it <a href="http://iheartrecess.blogspot.com/2016/07/implementing-literacy-centers-in-upper.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</span></span></div>
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To help you prepare for the new school year I am putting my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fractions-Game-File-Folder-2375171" target="_blank">Fractions</a> and <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Equivalent-Fractions-Game-File-Folder-2376066" target="_blank">Equivalent Fractions</a> File Folder games on sale at <b>50% off!</b> Students LOVE playing games, and they still haven't discovered that we LOVE watching them play educational games. </div>
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Fractions are often a scary concept for students so what is better way to help take the fear of fractions away than with a few games. Each game includes 24 task cards, game board (color and BW), answer key, directions, and labels for your file folder. </div>
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While you are prepping these games grab my FREEBIE <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Rockin-and-Rollin-Math-Review-Game-File-Folder-2429497" target="_blank">Math Review File Folder Game</a> too!<br />
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Like most of my project ideas I decided I needed a shirt for my favorite day as an Instructional Coach at the last minute. I pulled out my Cricut, found the following clip art and attempted to make myself a shirt. I am LOVING heat transfer vinyl and will warn you now that you will most likely see LOTS of #MondayMadeIt projects with it! </div>
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Due to the detail in the original image, this shirt took forever and didn't turn out how I had planned. Either way I love the end result and received lots of compliments on it from students and teachers.</div>
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I made these t-shirts for my boys teachers for Teacher Appreciation Week. They loved them!</div>
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My friend wanted to add a decal to her husband's Yeti like cup for Father's Day. He is a huge NC State fan so I made him the NC wolf logo. I can't wait to hear about his reaction once he receives his gift!</div>
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My friend also wanted some add personalization to her dad's cups for Father's Day and requested these images. I LOVE layering vinyl, even though it can be tricky at times. :) </div>
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My final craft vinyl project are these wine tumblers I made for my boys teachers for Teacher Appreciation Week. They say, "Keep your Apple, I'd rather have WINE". I included a gift card in each cup to help them fill their cups up.<br />
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Identifying the Main Idea of a text and supporting details seems to be a struggle for many readers. Students at all different levels of reading often struggle to determine what the author is trying to convey as the most important information.<br />
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To help our students determine the main idea we need to follow a few steps ourselves. The first step is ensuring we choose an appropriate text. The text we choose should require our students to comprehend and think in depth. The goal of the text is to build a deep understanding. The types of text we choose can range from a text book, magazine article, passage, online articles, any form of informational text that lends itself to the skill we are focusing on.<br />
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Step two is introducing the text to our students. Before reading a text discuss your purpose for reading. When students know the purpose they are better focused and prepared to read for understanding.<br />
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Step three is modeling how to identify the key ideas and details from the text. Modeling how to omit or cross off any unimportant information is also beneficial for students to understand why the information is not critical to the main idea. While reading students should write down any key ideas or details in the margin or on a graphic organizer.<br />
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As educators we know prompting and discussions about what was read is a crucial part of the reading process. Too often we feel unsure of what prompts to ask or are overwhelmed by the large amount of question prompts available to us. Below are a few prompts that focus on identifying the main idea and it's supporting details from a text.<br />
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1. What are some of the most important ideas?<br />
2. What does the author want you to know about ______?<br />
3. Ask students questions about specific sentences in the text; how does the information relate to the main idea?<br />
4. What is the text mostly about?<br />
5. What are some reoccurring words or phrases within the text?<br />
6. What could be another title for the text?<br />
7. What is the main idea?<br />
8. What details does the author use to support the main idea?<br />
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Even with the best teaching and perfect text some students still need support with pulling out the key information from a text. I'm working with some struggling readers who are able to pull the information from a text with my support, but struggle to do this independently. I've created some passages that will allow my students to think critically and provided them with a graphic organizer to help them write down the key information. Some of the students need more support than others so I chose to differentiated the graphic organizer rather than the text. With state testing coming up soon I wanted to ensure my students have been exposed to grade level text as much as possible. I have shared freebie from this Main Idea Maps pack for you below.<br />
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One of my favorite close reading strategies to teach students is SQ3R. I have used this strategy for several years and continue to teach it in the 3-5 classes at my current school. This strategy has fewer steps than UNRAVEL and other similar types of strategies.</div>
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SQ3R is
usually a Reading Strategy used during reading and students generate
questions for what they are reading to help them comprehend the passage,
chapter, or book. The way I use it in my class, and most teachers in
my school, is for test prep. Those reading passages and questions on
state assessments can be very intimidating or overwhelming for our
students. I have revised the original SQ3R and our school's version of
SQ3R to help prepare my students for difficult reading passages. {I do
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Looking at the poster below you can see some of my adaptations to each of the steps. You can get the poster <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/An-EC-Inclusion-Teachers-version-of-SQ3R-Poster" target="_blank">HERE</a> for Free :)</div>
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Scan:
Students do this step naturally, they simply look over the reading
material while looking for illustrations, graphic organizers, bold
words, number of paragraphs or stanza, etc. <br />
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Questions:
I require my students to read the questions BEFORE reading the passage.
This is to set a purpose and get them focused on what they are looking
for as they read. I now require my students to write the skill each
question is addressing. We have been practicing this with my <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Reading-Test-Prep-Question-Analysis" target="_blank">Reading Comprehension Question Analysis</a> product.<br />
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Read:
Students read the passage and make annotations as they read. This
year's group really needed to chunk information which is why I added
annotations. To simplify it for my students they write the main idea of
each paragraph for informational text and a summary of each paragraph
for fictional text.<br />
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Reread: Students answer the
questions by looking back into the text and highlighting the proof or
evidence that helped them answer each question. Students also write the
problem number next to the highlighted evidence.<br />
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Recheck: Students simply make sure ALL questions have been answered and they have highlighted their evidence.<br />
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In
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students write the letters S, Q, R, R, R on their papers to help them
keep the steps straight. In my current district they do not allow students to use highlighters on the state assessments, so I simply teach students to underline their evidence with their pencil.<br />
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requires them to be active readers and to show their work and thinking.
The only problem I have is getting them to do it on their own.
Recently I handed them a passage in which they followed the steps in
class to compare with a homework assignment they did not use SQ3R, and
compare their grades. They needed the visual to see how effective this
strategy is. On weekly test I will note who read the questions first
and reward them with a piece of candy. Each week I change the step I am
looking for and don't tell which one will help them earn a piece of candy. By the time
testing comes around they can follow these steps in their sleep :)<br />
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Because I LOVE this strategy so much I've created a <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Close-Reading-Practice-Passages-2311095" target="_blank">FREEBIE</a> for you to use with your students. The first passage is to help you model and complete each of the steps with your students. The second passage is for them to complete with a partner, and the third passage is for them to complete on their own independently or for homework. I would LOVE to hear how this strategy worked for your students!<br />
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Can you believe we are already half way through January! I'm not sure about you, but these two weeks have been long and interesting! I was looking forward to this long weekend to catch up on some sleep, laundry, and planning!<br />
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Throughout my years of teaching I've always looked forward to the MLK weekend to get caught up and to start planning my for February. With February known as Black History Month, Presidents, and Love I always try to tie my teaching standards to those topics. One of the books I utilize in February is Freedom Summer. I love this story of friendship and how it overcomes segregation during a difficult time period in our nation's history. <br />
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Last year I used my <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Freedom-Summer-Literacy-Unit-Companion-1623911" target="_blank">Freedom Summer Literacy Companion Pack</a> with a third grade class during our MOY mClass assessments. Here is an overview of how I used this resource as I taught character traits and reading comprehension with Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles. <br />
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(Pairs). I loved hearing their discussions for the the word "shell".
The sentence in the text was, "We shell butter beans together". They
came up with some pretty good definitions: share, cover, and cook. They
were pretty surprised by the actual definition. During Whole-Group I
read each sentence and we discussed the definitions they came up with
and each word's actual definition.<br />
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vocabulary again, asking guiding questions, etc. Any time I asked a
question I had the students turn and talk to the person next to them
before I called on one student for the answer. Doing this requires ALL
students to participate and not just the one or two students who always
raise their hand. Once we read and discussed the story we worked on the
graphic organizer.<br />
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them work together with a partner or group to complete the "Important
Events" and "Evidence Joe is a Good Friend" components. We then went
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They
were getting chatty by this time, we had a snow day yesterday, and I
was in there first thing this morning. I assigned them to start working
on the Comprehension Brochure independently. These questions are
Higher Order thinking questions and I knew it would be a little bit of a
challenge for some of them, but appropriate for them to think about and
try.<br />
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Now is your chance to WIN a copy of Freedom Summer and my Freedom Summer Literacy Unit Companion! To enter simply PIN any image from this post and comment below with the link to your pin and email. I will use random.org to choose one lucky winner. Pin-It-To-Win-It will end Jan. 24th and the winner will be announced Jan. 25th.I {Heart} Recess http://www.blogger.com/profile/03255879738122896753noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7942057443675680571.post-60518801944715325772015-12-30T21:16:00.000-05:002015-12-30T21:16:00.876-05:00Highs and Lows of 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Can you believe 2015 is over!?! It's amazing how fast the years start to pass as I get older. To recap my year I decided to do a fun Highs and Lows post. <br /><br />
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High: Started 2015 with several snow/ice days here in NC.<br />
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Low: Making up the snow days at the end of the school year.<br />
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High: Receiving my free shirt from <a href="http://designtool.aplusimages.com/eDesigner.aspx?ViewCart=1" target="_blank">A Plus Images</a> for Vegas.<br />
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Low: I ended up not making it to Vegas for the TpT Conference. :( </div>
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High: Our school year started out with a fun team building activity and has continued to keep a positive moral! </div>
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High: I LOVE my job! Being and Instructional Coach is very rewarding. I love being able to support teachers and students!</div>
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Low: I don't have much to blog about. :( When I had my own classroom I blogged about what we did, as a Coach much of my job is confidential and I'm unable to share all that I do.</div>
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High: My high student number meme went viral at the beginning of the school year. </div>
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High: My <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Place-Value-Game-Apple-Theme-for-Grades-3-5-1445082" target="_blank">Apple Place Value Gam</a>e made the TpT Newsletter in September!<br />
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High: A few of my teachers and I had the wonderful experience of attending <a href="http://www.solution-tree.com/" target="_blank">Solution Tree</a>'s PLC Conference. This was truly one of the best I've ever attended! </div>
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Several years ago the district I worked in had mentioned that we shouldn't use C.U.B.E.S. At the time I didn't know anything about the strategy so I didn't really pay any attention to the reasoning behind the why. Fast forward to last year as my first year as an instructional coach, and I now know why C.U.B.E.S shouldn't be used in most classrooms.<br />
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C.U.B.E.S. is a strategy that is successful for students who are already successful in understanding word problems. With this strategy students are focused on a completing steps, not what the problem is asking for. For many students word problems create anxiety and many will complete any math problem with the operation they are most comfortable with just to get an answer.<br />
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Let's be honest think about your first lesson this year with word problems, I'm going to guess majority of your wanted to add all the numbers in the problem. No matter the grade level, this is the operation students rely on most. With C.U.B.E.S. students often "fake" their way through the strategy and will still add the numbers.<br />
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Don't get me wrong, C.U.B.E.S. is a great strategy for the K-2 classroom where the word problems are set up in a way in which it is easier for students to use the strategy and get the correct answer. See the sample word problem below.<br />
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However, in the upper grades (3-5) many of the word problems are multistep which is where I see many students using the strategy incorrectly or having no success with it. Below is an example of a multistep word problem completed with C.U.B.E.S.<br />
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As I mentioned above, many students will not read the problem and will automatically start circling numbers, boxes action words, and underling the question. They are children and something we as teachers know is going to happen. I even tested C.U.B.E.S. out on my own third grader when he came home with the strategy in his homework folder. He is bright in math and he did exactly what I described above, just completed the steps because he was taught this strategy will help him find the answer.<br />
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I am currently coaching and teaching 4th grade reading and math. (We had a teacher move and many of the students in this class are low performing and my heart wouldn't let me leave them with a sub.) Last week I saw first hand why C.U.B.E.S shouldn't be used in 3-5, especially with lower leveled learners. My kids did exactly what I have already addressed. So, what do I use? The STOP Sign Strategy.<br />
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Remember I mentioned my previous district didn't want us using C.U.B.E.S? Well they shared the STOP Sign Strategy with us, although I don't think that is the name they call it.<br />
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With this strategy students are required to read the problem more than one time. I know we teach this to our students, but how often are they actually doing it without our support? Students STOP at each punctuation and jot down notes, highlight, etc. When I teach this strategy whole group we all raise our hands and shout out stop. This requires them to actually think about what the problem is stating, asking, and how the numbers in the problem are related. Below is the same sample problem done with C.U.B.E.S, but with STOP.<br />
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I know I may get several comments about how the math strategy C.U.B.E.S.
works well in classrooms around the world, but with my experience the past two years I don't believe it is appropriate for all 3-5 classrooms. C.U.B.E.S does not work for our students in 3-5, so at our school I have made the same call as my old district...no C.U.B.E.S. The teachers do not have to use the STOP Sign Strategy, they can use any strategy they know of that does not allow students the opportunity to fake their way through the problem.<br />
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The Name Jar is a great read aloud for the first day of school or sometime during the first week. Uhei moves to America and the reader is able to share her first impressions and experiences in an American school. Uhei is embarassed by her name and doesn't reveil it to her classmates. They place a jar on her desk and add their favorite names for her to choose from. Uhei realizes that her name is special just like her.<br />
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Last school year I visited classrooms to read aloud this wonderful story to third, fourth, and fifth graders. I had <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Name-Jar-Plans-Centers-1334596" target="_blank">created a three day lesson plan</a> for The Name Jar by Yangsook
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The Name Jar is a great beginning of school book to teach summarizing,
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Quick post for Tara's <a href="http://4thgradefrolics.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Monday Made It</a>! I look forward to this linky every summer :) For Father's Day I always have the boys make a craft for their dad. Thanks to Pinterest I found this idea and made it our own. My husband loved it and is hanging it in his office today! </div>
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I'm linking up with Kreative in Kindergarten and <a href="http://keepingupwithmrsharris.com/2015/06/plan-with-me-sunday/" target="_blank">Keeping up with Mrs. Harris</a> for their planner linky. I'm new to EC planners, I know shocking right! I'm even newer to the idea of using stickers and cutesy planners! Who knew decorating your weekly plans in a planner made life even more exciting!?! </div>
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I need to find better pens, I don't really care for the ballpoint pens that I've been using so if you have any suggestions please share your favorites! Last week I was in a training and sitting in the front row (not by choice) and the presented noticed my EC planner. She brought me hers and asked me how I use mine because she only used the monthly layout in hers. My advice was to make it cute. :) Spending the time to plan and beautify my week helps me accomplish all the things I have planned. :)</div>
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For this week's challenge I made over one of the first products I made. These task cards are perfect for Back to School! I use these at the beginning of the year to see what my students retained from the previous year. There is a set for <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Back-to-School-Math-Pre-Assessment-for-4th-Grade-Task-Cards-771836" target="_blank">4th grade</a> and a set for <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Back-to-School-Math-Pre-Assessment-for-5th-Grade-Task-Cards-771847" target="_blank">5th grade</a>. </div>
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Over the past 8 years of teaching I taught grades 3-4, with most of my time spent in 4th grade. I taught at a school where the majority of my students came from families who were very involved in their child's education, and were great readers. Over the years I did have several students who struggled with Reading, but more in the area of comprehension rather than phonics. This year I switched schools and the students come from very different backgrounds. I saw students who were reading well below grade level and struggled with other components of reading rather than just comprehension. As the Instructional Coach I felt I wasn't as strong as I should have been in this area to help my teachers, so I am spending my summer freshening up and reviewing the complex process that reading is.<br />
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Reading is complex and consist of several components. These components cannot be taught in isolation, but are interlocking components that depend on one another. When one or more component is missing the interlocking system of reading is weakened and unable to function for lifelong use. Simply put, no component can be missing.<br />
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The Five Domains of Reading:<br />
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1. Phonemic Awareness<br />
2. Phonics & Decoding<br />
3. Fluency<br />
4. Vocabulary<br />
5. Comprehension<br />
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Some researchers have a sixth component...Higher Order Thinking.<br />
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Reading is an easily learned skill when taught from good teachers who model balanced literacy instruction. What is "balanced literacy"? We hear this term a lot in education and the definition may be different from school to school or district to district. The common definition I have found is where literacy instruction includes explicit teaching, holistic reading and writing that is combined to create more capable readers. As educators we know that children do not all learn the same way and need a variety of methods and strategies that help build their reading skills. Within the balanced literacy a good teacher will use a variety of strategies during both explicit and holistic instruction.<br />
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Over the next several weeks I will dive deeper into each domain of reading, including Higher Order Thinking. I hope you stop by to sharpen your understanding of the complex process of reading. :)<br />
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What is something you hope to learn about reading this summer? Or what are you working on this summer to help next year be more successful for you? <br />
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Can you believe it...I'm actually posting!?! It's been a few months since my last post, thanks to a hectic end of the school year. No better way than to come off of a blogging break by linking up the <a href="http://primarypeach.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Primary Peach</a> for their Organizational Tips and Tricks linky!</div>
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On my labels I added a "cliff note"of sort so I could quickly find and
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I am so glad I did this a few years ago! As an Instructional Coach these came in handy for when assisting my 4th grade team. I was able to quickly grab my file and resources for them! I am currently working on labels and files for third and fifth grade. I will post those labels once they are completed.<br />
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