This year I have been working with students in the lower grades on foundational reading skills. With each student, I started with a Foundational Reading Skills Assessment to figure out the specific phonemic awareness skills that they needed to review as well as the letter sounds that they needed to work on and then designed… Continue reading Phonics Instruction: Encoding & Decoding
Category: 2nd grade
FAVORITE OCTOBER READ-ALOUDS
Creepy Carrots by Aaron ReynoldsJasper always helps himself to carrots from Crackenhopper field until one day, the carrots start following him. Jasper sees carrots everywhere and gets to a point where he can't stand it anymore! He decides to build a fence around the field so none of the carrots can get out. Jasper’s plan… Continue reading FAVORITE OCTOBER READ-ALOUDS
Interactive Read Alouds
An interactive read-aloud is a reading lesson that is focused on one standard and taught through the reading of one book and the guided conversation that students engage in before, during, and after reading. In an interactive read-aloud, the teacher models fluent reading and guides students to apply a comprehension skill to a text that… Continue reading Interactive Read Alouds
VIRTUAL Read Alouds for the First Week of School
This week I thought it might be helpful to round up some books and activities that you can use during the first week or two of school! A lot of the books that I found promote Social Emotional Learning, which I know is a big focus as we return from what has been referred to… Continue reading VIRTUAL Read Alouds for the First Week of School
Teaching To The Test-Taker 