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Vacation journal for when those students leave you for a week.

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Guided reading "cheat sheet"

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Guided Reading Guide Level Instructional Focus Texts A Concepts of print Oral Language Patterned Text 1 to 1 correspondence Check the pictures High frequency words Support predictions Main idea (usually does not know high frequency words out of context at Level A) Letter books Repetitive pattern...

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Comprehension strategies bookmark

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Bookmarks with reading strategies.

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Different ideas to practice word wall words.

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A personal word wall created in Google Drive. Students can add their own words in this personal word wall.

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Mrs. Bronson’s Word wall   A B C D E F Aardvark Baboon cat dog egg frog  G H I J K L goat hippo Iguana jaguar kitten Lion   M N O P Q R monkey narwhale octopus puppy quail rabbit  S T U V W X seal turtle unicorn vulture whale oX...

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Blank making words document.

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Fun compound word activity

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#Freebie ~ Cupcake Compound Words Match-Up Activity | WefollowPics

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How to writing prompts

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making words activities with bananagrams

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Word Work free download Word Work Making Words FREE download. This word work freebie is all about Bananagrams! If you don't have Bananagrams that's okay, you can use letter tiles, or Scrabblle tiles. You could even use stamps. Laminate or just print off the word work pages.

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writing sentences

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Crafting Sentences is a lesson plan I used in my first grade class to help my students write a complete sentence.  The file includes the lesson pla...

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Fun ways to get kids practicing words.

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Whether you’re in need of ready to go literacy centers, word work stations, fun spelling practice or homeschool activities, this pack has you covered. These 28 

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Jan Richardson Sight Word Check List and Resources

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This is a FREE resource, to help you track and communicate a student's sight word progress. This packet is designed for those who use Jan Richardson. Hope you enjoy! If you like this FREEBIE, please follow my store for other freebies to come! Thank you!

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Development of early writing continuum

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Similiar Development Of Emergent Writing Stages Keywords

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I provide recommendations and help you discover new similar Development Of Emergent Writing Stages keywords. I'm a bit of an egghead and created this special algorithm to help you find new Development Of Emergent Writing Stages releated keywords to use in your projects and keyword campaigns.

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Making connections

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Student response sheet to illustrate and write about reading ...

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Comprehension questions

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Strategies for Teaching Listening Comprehension

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We cannot overlook the importance of teaching listening comprehension strategies to our students. These strategies are easy to implement into any classroom.

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Visualization activity

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Teaching Children to Visualize to Build Comprehension

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Fluency trees

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Sentence Trees – Perfect for Beginner Fluency Practice

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Sentence Trees are a great way to build confidence in beginning readers. there are four sets of Sentence Trees available.

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Easy phonics skills based readers

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Phonics readers, word family readers, blends reading comprehension readers for the whole year. Read through word families all the way through diphthongs.

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emergent writing paper

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Writing Prompt for Emergent Writers Illustrated word bank  Differentiated options included $ Free sample on blog post

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Fun writing practice

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50 Playful Sight Words Activity Ideas for Beginning Readers

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50 playful activity ideas for engaging beginning readers with high frequency sight word learning.

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Identifying rhymes

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Fun word family activity

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Activity for 4 to 6 year olds. Do your kids have a serious case of spring fever too? This word family garden is a great way to focus all of that warm weather da

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Word wall, spelling or high frequency word activities

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Spelling Word Roll - Word Work / Word Study Center

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Spelling Word Roll - Word Work / Word Study Center - Fundations Activity - Word Practice - Reading Rotation Center - Independent Spelling Practice using Dice - Spelling Fun - 3 Types of sentences - Language Arts

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Working with word activities. Changing letters to make new words.

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FREE!! Make this a choice on my "I'm Done! Now What?" board. Activity, "Word Stairs"

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High frequency word activities.

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Journeys First Grade Print and Go High Frequency Word (Sight Word) Word Searches

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JOURNEYS FIRST GRADE PRINT AND GO HIGH FREQUENCY WORD (SIGHT WORD) WORD SEARCHES - TeachersPayTeachers.com

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Create your own running record

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Use this blank running record to assess individual students' reading skills and progress. Use with the lesson plan on . This printable is customizable. Tailor the PDF to your teaching needs by typing in the highlighted fields before printing.

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Literacy Checklist

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EMERGING LITERACY Behaviours Checklist Oct 10

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Emerging Literacy Behaviours Checklist   Check the box for the statement that best describes the student’s current behaviours related to literacy. This checklist can be used several times throughout the year to monitor progress, inform instruction and document growth. Use the Observation Notes se...

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Literacy center ideas

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I've been getting tons of questions about literacy centers lately, so I thought it would be a good idea to share with you all what we do!

First of all, our students are half day, so we only get to teach them for about 3 hours a day! Fitting it all in is tough, but we sure do get a lot done! We do literacy centers for the first 30 minutes of the day. This is when I pull my intervention group and the rest of the class chooses what they want to do. Two students go to the listening center each morning, and two get to paint at the art center. The rest of the students choose what they want to do.

Here's a look at some of our literacy centers:

Each week we focus on a letter so I just change the alphabet practice page inside the write & wipe pocket. I found these in the Target dollar spot a few summers ago, but they also sell them at Lakeshore. My students love the novelty of practicing their letters and then erasing them. They will do it over and over and over again ;)

We are starting to use our high-frequency words to build sentences. I introduced this center as a whole group first so that everyone understood what to do.

Then they completed the recording pages independently.

We have a seasonal books on tape for our students to listen to. They love this center! {even if they have no idea what the word "rewind" means LOL}

Our reading groups run 3 days a week for an hour and our students rotate through three groups. One group always works with the teacher, one works with our assistant and one group is independent or works with a parent if we are lucky enough to have a volunteer! I put a center at the rotation with our aide and parent volunteer/independent table for the kids to work on when they finish their "must do". It is definitely busy, but it works for us!

I always pull a small group with me and we work on reading sight words, decoding, fluency and accuracy. This is where we also work on Elkonin, word chains and guided writing.

My class love, love, loves the play-doh center. It may or may not have to do with the fact that I had the play-doh out taunting them before I let them use it ;) They use the play-doh to form our letters and then practice writing them with the dry-erase marker. Soon we will practice spelling CVC words and our sight words with play-doh!

Along with my general centers, I have a ton of seasonal centers that I love to use in my classroom! The kids are just so much more engaged when you change it up a little! It is a lot of work to prep everything monthly, but it's TOTALLY worth it!

I have centers up in my shop for every month! You can find all of them in a money saving bundle {here}!

I hope this was helpful and gave you some ideas!

Have more questions? Leave a comment below and I will do my best to answer them!

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I've been getting tons of questions about literacy centers lately, so I thought it would be a good idea to share with you all what we do! First of all, our students are half day, so we only get to teach them for about 3 hours a day!

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Literacy checklist

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All Children Can Read- Literacy Skills.pdf

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Blank running record recording form for any book.

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Phonological awareness, phonemics and phonics video. Explains the differences between these.

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Phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, and phonics

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A-Z listening to and recording running records.

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Video to help teach running records and analyzing miscues.

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Analyzing Miscues: Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment

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Nicole DeLaney: January 2013 What is Miscue Analysis? Why do we Analyze Miscues? Procedures for Analyzing Miscues Visual Miscues- V Syntax Based Miscues- S Miscue Analysis is a tool for looking closely at the types of reading strategies a reader uses.

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How to do a running record.

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Free running record calculator online.

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Calculating Running Records

Primary school teachers and other educators can use this free tool to calculate students running records. Scoring includes Error Ratio, Accuracy percentage, and Self-correction Ratio. If you find this tool useful, please bookmark it for later use, and recommend it to your friends and teaching colleagues.

How to best use Running Records?

For a great concise guide on everything you need to know about Running Records we recommend picking up Running Records for Classroom Teachers (second edition) on Amazon - it's only a short read, but covers everything you need to be able to confidently use this in your teaching.

Teachers Notepad

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We've made a stack of inspiring picture prompts for you and your class to use. Download all 20 high resolution PDFs in one pack right now - only shared with our TeachersNotepad community!

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Primary school teachers and other educators can use this free tool to calculate students running records. Scoring includes Error Ratio, Accuracy percentage, and Self-correction Ratio. If you find this tool useful, please bookmark it for later use, and recommend it to your friends and teaching colleagues.

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Great word choice activities.  Put these words to rest with alternatives to use.

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You know you're a teacher when you get your best teaching ideas from the most random places.

Recently, for me, it was the grocery store!

The inspiration: a pack of mini cereal boxes.

The idea: a 3-dimensional "RIP DEAD WORDS" word wall.

Talk about spicing up your word wall... AND students' vocabulary... all at the same time. I never knew it was possible to fall in love with a word wall... but ♥ I'M IN LOVE ♥. SO incredibly in love with how it turned out!!

Here's how to do it:

Cover your board with black cloth or construction paper. I saw some cool material with spider webs on it but I still ended up using black because it just makes the tombstones pop!

You will need 3 sets of Fun Pack Cereal boxes.

Paint the sides and cut off the tabs (you can also just tuck the tabs inside the box, but I like how clean it looks when snipped off). Then, g lue the tombstones onto the painted cereal boxes and VOILA:

Decide on whether you'll put the foldables or cards inside the tombstones.

Attach your boxes onto your bulletin board! Below, I stapled the first two boxes and tried a push pin for the third box - both work fine!

I think the tombstones would also look cool sitting on the ledge of your black board! What do you think?

If you want to create a 3d interactive word wall without boxes, you can also use the tombstones as pockets -just staple around the edges (except the top) and you will still get that 3d look!

Or if 2d is more your game, you can simply staple the tombstones flat and use a push pin to hang the synonym booklets, just under the RIP part. This option allows students to easily see which booklets are in use.

You can manage the 3D interactive tombstones in a similar way by writing a cute message like this:

When a student grabs a booklet from inside the box, they simply flip the tag over to let other students know it's in use. Cute, right?

This gruesome hand not only adds a fun element to the word wall - it also reminds students to reach inside for those descriptive words when they are writing!

You will notice that the tombstones and mini books are based on THE 5 SENSES + EMOTIONS because I find that when students describe the look, smell, taste, sound or feel of an object, it just catapults their writing to a whole new level. Using precise vocabulary to describe emotions helps students add 'voice' to their writing!If you want your students to expand their vocabulary, you can download the complete set .

It includes an interactive notebook; foldable books; both small and large cards; tombstones; and a small & large hand. There are OVER 700 descriptive words in this set!!

You can also try a FREE sample HERE {or click the image below}.

I hope this will help inspire your students to SPICE UP their writing!!! May you never see a DEAD (boring, overused, tired) word in your students' writing EVER again!! Let those dead words rest in peace 😉

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How To Create an Interactive 3D Word Wall

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You know you're a teacher when you get your best teaching ideas from the most random places. Recently, for me, it was the grocery store! The inspiration: a pack of mini cereal boxes. The idea: a 3-dimensional "RIP DEAD WORDS" word wall. Talk about spicing up your word wall...

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Bob book reproducibles and activities for beginning readers. Good sight word activities as well.

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3 Dinosaurs - Early Reading Printables: BOB Books Set 1

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3 Dinosaurs is a web site with free printables, gross motor, trip reviews, and book activities for tots, preschoolers, kindergarten, first grade, second grade & third grade.

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Interactive word wall printables for students to use in the classroom.

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Mr. Giso's Room to Read: A Bunny Blog Hop

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{Free} Word Wall Activities to use during word work.  Activities to help make your word wall interactive.

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Making Your Word Wall More Interactive-Great resource to get students using their word wall. I use this book a lot in my first grade classroom. Reproducibles for students to use.

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Introducing vocabulary to students.

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Love the boa as a border!   Fancy Nancy can be used to go along with a fancy words wall. Students hear and learn new words every day and having a place for them to bring them back to gets them looking for new words that enhance their vocabulary.

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Free printable word wall for students to use at their desk.

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This blank word wall is great for allowing every student in your classroom to have their very own portable word wall. It is 3 pages in length with 9 boxes on each page. There is one box for each letter of the alphabet as well as lines in each box for keeping the words organized!

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MSV cheat sheet

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A Day in Life of Bee MSV description for reading cues

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Free printables for personal word walls

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Math vocabulary for the word wall

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Math Word Walls have been a total game changer in my classroom! Now my students actively use the vocabulary cards on bulletin board to remind them of key concepts. These Math Word Wall Cards are available for Kindergarten, First Grade, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th!

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Personal narrative checklist for students to use.

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FREE Idea Chart, Graphic Organizers & Writing Stationary

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FREE personal narrative ideas chart, writing checklist, graphic organizer & differentiated primary lined stationary for beginner writers

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Writing paper with rubrics embedded on the paper. Great so that students can see what they are being graded on while they are writing

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Time Saving Writing Templates with Embedded Rubrics!

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Hello! I'm dropping by to share something I started doing that is saving me tons of time, not to mention paper! I have been teaching for nine years, and somethi

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Editing checklist for students to look at when they are writing.

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This is part of the free editing set from First Grade Wow. For kindergarten, I use it to show what they can do (smiley face in the check box) and what their newest personal challenge is (I highlight the check box). They keep it in their writing folders. It helps differentiate learning and gives each student focus. There are many other useful pages in the packet, too. All free!

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Information to help analyze running records with MSV

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Analyzing errors and self-corrections in running records can give you SO much information. This information can help you to determine what your students are using to decode words and what they need to work on.

Take a running record of a student reading a passage or short text aloud. Be sure to record what their errors are above the word they read incorrectly or self-corrected. Need running records? Check out the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project for some FREE ones! You can also do a running record of any book a child is reading.

Let's take a look at an example:

Take a look at each error and self-correction individually to determine whether or not the student was using meaning, structure, or visual information while reading. Notice if students are over-relying on one type. Ask: "What
Analyzing Errors:
Ask: "What type of information did the child use when they made this mistake?"

Analyzing Self-Corrections:
additional information did the child use to correct the error?"

M - Meaning: Does this error make sense?

This student read screamed for cried, and self-corrected after reading burn for bury. Errors using meaning show that students are comprehending what is happening in the text or by using the pictures. It is evident that this student was using meaning after self-correcting the word bury in a sentence. This student understood that the word didn't make sense in the context of the sentence. I would work with this learner on using visual information (paying close attention to the letters/word parts in the words) along with meaning.

S - Syntax/Structure: Does this error sound right?

This student read it for that, to for for, and my for her. These errors are acceptable in the English language and fit the structure of the text, without changing the meaning. I can hypothesize that this student was using syntax/structure when reading.

V - Visual: Does this error look right?

This student read glazed for gazed and Gliman for Gilman. Glazed does not make sense in the context of the story, nor does it fit the structure of the sentence. Gliman is a little different because it is a name. This student's error doesn't change the meaning or structure of the sentence. Because the beginning and ending sounds in the words were read correctly, these errors do show that the student is attending to visual information. I would also note that the student needs to work on reading through the entire word by recognizing known word parts to help them decode.

The goal of MSV = Self-Correction
We want students to be able to monitor and self-correct on their own. Avoid immediately pointing out errors to students. If they do not self correct, guide them to reread the entire sentence instead (helpful prompts below). We should give students strategic actions to use with any book, rather than just guiding them through the book you're reading.
Prompts to guide students:

"Run your finder under the word and read all the way through it."

"What strategy could you try here? (chunking, covering up part of the word, familiar word parts, etc.)"

"Try that again and keep the story in your head."

"If that didn't make sense, remember it's your job to check it again."

"What are you thinking about?"

MSV has ALWAYS confused me. Every single time I analyzed a running record I had to Google what it meant. For some reason I couldn't keep that information in my brain. So I made a cheat sheet (lifesaver). If you want this cheat sheet for yourself, you can download it for FREE from my TPT store!

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Analyzing Running Records - MSV Made Easy with a Freebie!

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Analyzing errors and self-corrections in running records can give you SO much information. This information can help you to determine what your students are using to decode words and what they need to work on. Take a running record of a student reading a passage or short text aloud.

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Listen to reading response activities with qr codes for students to scan.

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Alphabet check list -upper and lower case checklist for the beginning of the year letter/sound recognition

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MSV explained and a cheat sheet for teachers to have handy while evaluating students records.

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Free MSV Cheat Sheet: Analyzing Running Records

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This freebie is a cheat sheet to help teachers analyze student errors on running records. Determine if students are using meaning, syntax, or visual cues while

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Hindi ELL tool

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Considerations When Working with Students and Families Who Are Learning EnglishEmergent Literacy Birth-Grade 3   English and Hindi    Linguistic Systems Similarities between  English and Hindi DIfferences between  English and Hindi Resources Writing Systems   Written left to right writ...

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Spanish ELL tool