Here’s a visual of a strategy for working with small groups during Independent Work Time at the elementary level. This works if you have at least a 20-40 minute block of time to work with students and can spend at least 10 minutes with two groups each day. The idea is that you meet briefly …
Category: Reading Fluency
Parent Resources to Support Reading At Home
Here are the slides from a parent workshop I led for parents on how to help your child learn to read at home. This was for an audience of several English Language Learners and so there is some Spanish and references to Spanish mixed in. I tried to keep the slideshow as visual as possible. …
Google Literacy Project Page
Here’s an interesting page which gathers literacy movies, blogs, lessons, etc that are contained on Google’s Pages: http://www.google.com/literacy/ It also asks you to share what you are doing.
Free Stuff for Teacher Appreciation Week
Learning A-Z is offering free resources this week. I’m not a big fan of worksheets but they’re not all worksheets. Today they have free downloadable books. You will need to log-in and create an account. May 05 http://www.readinga-z.com Thousands of printable books, including leveled readers and supporting materials May 06 http://www.raz-kids.com Interactive leveled reading library …
Celebrate Seuss Day Collaboratively Across the World
I’ve been doing a lot of work at my new school with video conferencing as unit opener and culminating activity. We spoke with Cornell University’s bird scientists last month and we just spoke with another third grade class in LAUSD to share our new knowledge about City Wildlife. Here’s an opportunity to video conference for …
Revive Dead Links: Get Free Reader’s Theater Now!
I’ve been aware of Archive.org’s Way Back Machine for awhile but only this month has it really come to my rescue. For the uninitiated, the “Way Back Machine” captures web pages at various times throughout the past four or five years or so. I used to use it to see my old web page designs. …
Sorting Assessment (SOAR) Data
Here’s an idea for sorting assessment data (SOAR) using Microsoft Word. submitted by Francie Kugelman >Here’s an idea for sorting SOAR Data using Excel in Microsoft’s Office Suite. submitted by Francie Kugelman This is an idea of entering SOAR data from Open Court tests in a template. Using the Word Table helps me instantly know …