Reading Lesson Comprehension Strategy: Making Predictions

I noticed as I graded Reading Response Journals Friday, some students were not clear about the reading strategy "making predictions". So, it is time to revisit the skill. Tomorrow in small group we are discussing the text, "Sophie's Squash Go To School."

 As I read, I will use the think aloud strategy to model how to make predictions. I will guide the students though a  discussion about predictions and they will use the graphic organizer to share their predictions. I made a slide show to walk them through the process. 

The video is designed to be PAUSED while you read the text, talk and students write on the T-Chart!

These T-chart graphic organizers will 

help students record their predictions.

 The T-chart graphic organizers are available from my Google Docs. 

From there you can also access a PDF version of the slide show! 

If you are interested in The Interactive Comprehension Reading Notebook featured in my lesson, ClICK HERE. It features:

50+ foldables and additional graphic organizers
Mini-anchor charts and foldable for each comprehension strategy:
Visualize, Question, Summarize, Prior Knowledge, Infer, Predict, Connecting and Text Evidence

Graphic organizers and foldables for other skills such as…
Retell, Important Parts of the Story, Main Idea & Details, Setting, Main Characters, Problem & Solution, Author’s Purpose Sort, Imagery, Point-of-View, & Text Features.

The Interactive Comprehension Reading Notebook also includes a comprehension reading log with think-marks. The reading log features double entry style page to promote use of text evidence. The reading log features a built in rubric, with a more detailed rubric to outline specific expectations for students.
Many foldables and graphic organizers also feature Handwriting without Tears style lines, sentence starters, and opportunities to provide text evidence.

If you would like to see all the pages included in the product, along with pictures of the product printed and set up, please visit this Youtube link:

Teaching and Relating Multiplication and Division

Teaching and Relating 

Multiplication and Division

 Materials

  Unifix Cubes

  Construction paper squares to represent “groups”

Directions:

Choose the set of math facts that your students have not yet mastered. (If you are just starting out your math fact journey, 2, 5, or 10s are easier patterns). For my first lesson, we worked on twos.

I introduced the lesson by reading the story, “Two of Everything” by: Lily Toy Hong.

An amusing discussion about what we would put into the “magic pot” ensued!

Then we quickly reviewed some double addition facts using these examples.

Then I showed what each of these examples would look like as a multiplication fact, representing them with unifix cubes and construction paper to show 2 groups of __ . The students quickly caught on that for each of these examples, there were only two construction paper squares because we were always doubling.

I threw some problems out to the group to represent with their own set of construction paper squares and unifix cubes. 

This lesson was engaging for the students, so they remembered our work even when the lesson was over! 

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Discussions in Math Class

  I had a small group of students that were struggling to master multiplication facts. They might recall the facts one day, but fail to retain them the next. We went back to the beginning and I taught them the "easy" patterns (0, 1, 2, 5 and 10s!) and had done a variety of activities with these facts. However, it was time for something new. I had them pull out their flash cards and sort them. Then we talked about it. I had a few "Oh!”s and a couple of “Ah-huh!”s so I knew we were finally on the right track. 

A copy of the lesson for this activity is available here: 

Multiply and Divide by Ten: Sort and Discuss

This is a great activity to support your work with multiplication and division. Students will need to have a fair understanding in the foundation concepts of multiplication and understand there is a link between multiplication and division. (I like to teach the two concepts together!)

      This activity is designed to help students see the patterns that exist in basic math facts and use this understanding to increase their math fact fluency.

      The Sort and Discuss is designed to have students sorting their math facts, then stopping for discussion to facilitate a deeper understanding of the patterns they see. Therefore, the group should work together. Remind students not to skip ahead to the next step, but rather stay with the group and participate in the discussions.

Discussions solidify understanding! 

Teacher Tools: Organizing Your Writing Center

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This week’s raffle give way is LABELS for your Writing Center! 

This twenty page PDF download includes the following 36 writing center labels: 
Writing Center Poster 
pencils
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colored pencil
dictionary
thesaurus
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clipboard
editing checklist
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highlighters
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paper: large lined, drawing paper, colored paper....& More! 
There are 6 labels to one standard sheet of paper. BLACKLINE VERSION included. This allows for the labels to be personalized by printing them on colored paper or scrapbook paper. 

An editing checklist & word~bank graphic organizers are included. . 

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Reading Raffle Tickets: Reading Incentives for Elementary Students FREEBIE

Getting students to read at home is an important way for them to become a better readers! Encourage reading with Reading Raffle Tickets. Every time a student finishes a book, he or she enters the ticket into the raffle. Every two weeks, we have a "Reading Raffle." I raffle off brand new books or fun, simple prizes.

"Alien for Rent" -- Reading and Writing Fiction in the Classroom

This week my reading class is reading Betsy Duffey's "Alien for  Rent", a fun little fiction chapter book in Scholastic's Sprint Series.

 

In addition to the phonics and comprehension questions that are in the student workbook, I designed a short writing assignment for the students. It is a nice creative way to supplement our language arts class.

 

Printable Anchor Chart: Converting Fractions to Decimals & Percentages

   This is my favorite 100th day of school activity for older students!

Our district encourages the use of the Calendar Math program. We keep track of the first 100 days of school as fractions and convert them to decimals and percentages. 

For the activity, use M&M candies to calculate the fraction, decimal and percentage of each color.

The anchor chart shows the students how to do this with the help of a calculator. The accompanying worksheet moves the students toward seeing the pattern and finding equivalent fractions.

Free download here

A Graphic Organizer that works well with this activity is available here:

 Candy Math Activity

available @ TpT for  $1.00 includes

a graphic organizer and graphing activity. 



Fact Family Anchor Chart...Free to download

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Downloadable Personal Narrative Anchor Chart

Hello everyone! I hope you are having a wonderful and relaxing evening!

Tomorrow I will be working with my students on a mini-lesson  writing  personal narrative. Since I was thinking of using the book Fireflies! by  Julie Brinckloe as a mentor text, I created an anchor chart with some great dragon fly graphics from Kim Belcher. 

This anchor chart is available here: ANCHOR CHART.

{Freebie} For your Read 180 Classroom

I LOVE teaching Read 180! Keeping the students organized can be a challenge, especially the various writing pieces. Ultimately I found that it was easiest to keep all of the writing in a journal organized by workshop. I use the following journal pages to create journals of 10-15 double sided pages. 

Why not just any notebook?
Once you create the journal for the student to write in, they can be stored right in the R—book for the duration of the workshop. Anytime the student needs more space for a written answer, it is handy! It also provides a nice place for  the student to begin workshop writing projects. I noticed it is easy for students to refer back to their previous written pieces when using the journals. Now grading time… well it is so much easier to carry home a stack of journals vs. a mountain of composition notebooks!

The titles of workshops appear on each cover page. No other materials from the Read 180 program appear within this document.
All clip art is subject to copyright and belongs to the designer listed in the end pages.

Enjoy!  ~ Shannon @ Classy Gal Designs and Publishing
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