One way to teach students to make inferences is to teach them that there are different kinds of questions. Questions where the answer is clearly in the text, questions when you must use your own head, and questions which ask you to connect to the text. Francie Kugelman has created these charts which students can …
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Free Professional Development Podcast
There are many professional development podcast but I’ve recently found a cool podcast on iTunes which can be used for professional development (your own or others’) and relates to your work teaching phonemic awareness and conepts of print. These podcasts do require iTunes. What are podcasts? Podcasts are essentially downloadable movies, TV shows, or radio …
Writing About Fear Using Sensory Details
I used this in the second grade unit, Courage but it can be used with any grade level/story as a means for drawing out sensory details from students. In the story “Brave as a Mountain Lion,” the author uses language to describe how the main character, Spider, feels when he is scared of participating in …