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Stop, Think and Jot anchor chart for Reader's Workshop (image only) #readersworkshop #stopthinkjot #readingidea #readinganchor

Best Procedural Writing Mentor Texts, as Chosen by Teachers

Flipping for First: Organizing Words Their Way!

Celebrate March Madness in the classroom by using the free web app Kahoot to host a book tournament. Set up book brackets and vote with Kahoot. Learn more.

Getting the Most Out of Scholastic Book Orders

Reading programs and activities don’t work very well to raise students’ reading proficiency, especially if they take the place of real interactions with real books. And they certainly don’t do anything to turn our students into people who love to read. #CultofPedagogy #reading #ELA

Learn an easy and effective way to organize all the books in your classroom library!

Children's magazines are a great source of informational text for nonfiction reading lessons! The articles are short, interesting, and include a variety of text structures and features. This post from Laura Candler includes tips for selecting appropriate magazines as well as strategies for using them to teach nonfiction reading comprehension. #informationaltext #readingcomprehension #nonfictionreading #readinglessons

Teaching Fourth: Ten Websites with Free Articles and Passages

Engage students with this fun lesson on how to teach characterization using short films (like Pixar). Scaffold learning by using easy-to-understand and engaging short movies, cartoons, or commercials to help students analyze character development and motivation. Free lesson plan and sample films. #lessonplans #middleschool #analysis

The Hungry Teacher: Guided Reading and Small Groups in Middle School PART II

Everyone deServes to Learn: Teaching How-To Writing, Part 2!

21 Read-Aloud Books for the Beginning of the School Year | Teacher's Lounge Blog | Really Good Stuff®

Free Resources to Teach Point of View and Perspective by Kristine Nannini - If you are an upper elementary teacher, you're going to LOVE the free ideas, tips, anchor charts, resources, & downloads included here. Click through to see how I teach students to identify, analyze, and compare point of view and perspective. {POV, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th grade, first-person, third-person)

Practice math, science or reading vocabulary words with these fun games! They can be played with any list of words. Perfect for centers. Lots of FREEBIES are included!

dry erase board for groups- duh! Why didn't I think of that before?

Here are ten ideas that go way beyond the standard book report. Your kids will love them! We especially enjoyed the scrapbook project - I always get great results with that one.

Book Madness {March Book Display} - a fantastic post about how to pull together a tournament bracket wall display with freebies!!! Love!!!

Reader's Workshop Contract with students! Cool!

Fostering a classroom reading community with a student driven Reading Graffiti Wall

18 Reading Genres Posters for Reading area, bulletin board, or Classroom Library…

Learn some tips on implementing Daily 5 in the upper grade classroom. Perfect for grades 3-5.

Videos for Teaching and Reviewing Figurative Language

Make suffixes memorable with really big letters. Kids can write words with the suffix on the letters, too. FRom Teaching My Friends!: Reading Workshop

Teaching Shades of Meaning Teach students to distinguish shades of meaning among verbs differing in manner and adjectives differing in intensity with this engaging hands-on resource. This bundle includes mini-lessons, games, a FoldOver book, task cards, vocabulary timelines, printables, and a quick assessment. #HollieGriffithTeaching #KidsActivities #HandsOnLearning

Fluency 1 - Work on expression and fluency by having the students read a paragraph after choosing one of these cards that gives them a different voice or action to do while reading. It keeps their attention while they're learning different ways to read.