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Description: The teacher reads a book aloud that is too advanced for the students to read independently.  After reading the same story several times, then the students are able to read a few key words and phrases along with the teacher as he or she points to each word.
Advantages:
--- Helps to improve students' fluency
--- Gives the students a chance to read along with the teacher
--- Gives children a better understanding about book orientation and directionality
Disadvantages:
--- This strategy is limited to certain stories because it requires the use of big books

Tompkins, Gail E. Literacy in the early grades: a successful start for PreK-4 readers and writers. Boston, Pearson, 2015.

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Shared Reading Interactive Charts for Fall

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My students love these interactive charts and I love them because they build on early reading concepts. This pack include 5 different poems (rhymes) that are interactive and can be displayed in a pocket chart or made into an anchor chart. All word cards are included, just cut out and they are ready to use.

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Language Experience Approach by Hannah McClarney

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Language Experience Approach by Hannah McClarney

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Description: In this strategy, the teacher brings up a topic that all of the students have experience with and asks them to come up with sentences about that subject.  As students create sentences, the teacher writes their ideas word for word on the board.
Advantages:
--- Makes children feel like their thoughts and language skills are important
--- Can be used in large group or small group settings
--- This strategy can be used in any context
Disadvantages:
--- Some students might not feel comfortable sharing their ideas

Tompkins, Gail E. Literacy in the early grades: a successful start for PreK-4 readers and writers. Boston, Pearson, 2015.

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Description: The class works together to write familiar letters and words to create a full sentence or paragraph. In this case the students are the ones coming
to the board and filling in the blanks.
Advantages:
--- Students are able to practice their writing
--- Requires students to use their phonemic awareness to know which letters and words to write
--- Allows teacher to see where students are struggling easily
Disadvantages:
--- Some students might not feel comfortable practicing these skills in front of the whole class

Tompkins, Gail E. Literacy in the early grades: a successful start for PreK-4 readers and writers. Boston, Pearson, 2015.

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Interactive Writing Notebook for First Grade {Sampler}

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This set is a sampler of my Interactive Writing Notebook for first grade. It contains 6 projects from the notebook. The projects are: Who? Doing What? Stretch the Sentence- The Dog Barked. Describe It!- Cat My Idea List- Favorite Activities Opinion Writing- Should Kids Have More Homework?

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Description: This learning strategy involves students discussing a story in order to get a better understanding of it.  Students are able to develop their ideas about the elements, characters, and their personal opinions pertaining to the story.
Advantages:
--- Requires students to think critically
--- Gives students the opportunity to share their opinions with their peers
--- Students have the chance to hear ideas that they may not have thought of on their own
Disadvantages:
--- Some students might not feel comfortable sharing their ideas
--- Students can get off topic easily

Tompkins, Gail E. Literacy in the early grades: a successful start for PreK-4 readers and writers. Boston, Pearson, 2015.

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Help your students meet Common Core Standards by using these Grand Conversation Cards as an after reading activity. There are red cards for fiction reading and green cards for non fiction reading. These cards help students answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions.

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Description: Students work independently or in partners to create a page that will be put into a class book. The students can draw a picture and/or write a passage that goes along with the theme that the teacher selects.
Advantages
--- Allows students to be creative
--- Can work with many different topics and subject areas
--- Can be easily differentiated for all students
Disadvantages:
--- Can be challenging for students that don't enjoy drawing or writing

Tompkins, Gail E. Literacy in the early grades: a successful start for PreK-4 readers and writers. Boston, Pearson, 2015.

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This is a "class book", also known as a class collaborative book. All you have to do is photocopy the "In The Spring" page and have each student fill out their own page. All the pages are then stapled together to make a class book.

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Description: This game allows students to practice their phonics skills by using addition, subtraction, and substitution to make new words. Students are able to figure out the new word by hearing or reading a clue or definition.
Advantages:
--- Helps students practice spelling and phonics
---Helps to improve students' vocabulary
--- Allows students to have fun while practicing important reading skills
Disadvantages:
--- Can be difficult for students that have trouble with phonics, spelling, and vocabulary

Tompkins, Gail E. Literacy in the early grades: a successful start for PreK-4 readers and writers. Boston, Pearson, 2015.

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My kiddos need some extra help with CVC words so I've created these word ladders to help them out. The students will write the first word and then change either the first, middle or last letter to make the new word.

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Description: This graphic organizer helps students to think about a piece of literature more in depth.  They are able to analyze the character, setting, and theme through the mind of the main character.
Advantages:
--- Can be used with any story
--- Allows students to be creative, but still analyze the text at a deeper level
--- Requires students to go back and reread parts of the text to accurately explain details
--- Allows students to practice writing and spelling skills
Disadvantages:
--- More time can be focused on creating the portrait than thinking about the text

Tompkins, Gail E. Literacy in the early grades: a successful start for PreK-4 readers and writers. Boston, Pearson, 2015.

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Here is a fun activity that you can utilize with the book, Rainbow Fish, by Marcus Pfister. This activity is called an Open-Minded Portrait. On the first page, students draw and create "Rainbow Fish" with art materials. This page is called the "Drawing Page."

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Description: Teachers will have students use this graphic organizer to help them activate prior knowledge about a topic. As they learn about the subject then students can add to their chart in an organized manner.
Advantages:
--- Can be used with any topic
--- Invokes prior knowledge about the subject
--- Helps teacher to quickly see what the students already know about the topic and what misconceptions they may have
--- Helps students to assess themselves to see what they learned
--- Can be easily adapted for different age levels
Disadvantages:
--- This graphic can take several weeks to complete

(See page 12)

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Description: Students will use setting maps to draw their interpretation of the setting of a story.  They should include all of the important details.  This involves the students in the literature and gets them thinking about the details of a story.
Advantages:
--- Gives students the opportunity to be creative and involved in the text at the same time
--- Does not require writing for younger students
--- Requires students to revisit the text
Disadvantages:
--- Leaves room for students to lose focus on the topic easily

(See page 17)

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Description: These graphic organizers are used to show relationships between two objects. It helps students to organize information and see similarities and differences between the concepts.
Advantages:
--- Helps students to organize information
--- Helps students understand the ideas of comparing and contrasting
--- Very versatile and can be used to compare and contrast almost anything
--- Can be beneficial for visual learners
Disadvantages:
--- Requires prior knowledge of both topics being discussed
--- Limits students to a certain amount of space to share their thinking

(See page 24)