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Story Sequencing:

Arrange a series of picture cards into the logical order to create the story from beginning to end. This gives the children the chance to demonstrate and reinforce their recollection of the story.

Sentence sequencing is an activity/game that allows children to practice combining nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc to make a sentence.
Generic Cards Fry Frequency Word List Flashcards
Themes:
Bible Story Sentence Sequencing Cards Fourth of July Graduation
Grouchy Ladybug (Eric Carle)
Memorial Day Valentine's Day

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Arrange a series of picture cards into the logical order to create the story from beginning to end. This gives the children the chance to demonstrate and reinforce their recollection of the story. Sentence sequencing is an activity/game that allows children to practice combining nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc to make a sentence.

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.1
Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

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English Language Arts Standards " Reading: Literature " Grade 3 " 1

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Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

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FREE - Bloom's Question Cards - Bloom's Taxonomy by Traci Clausen (teacherspayteachers.com)

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Exit Slips | Classroom Strategy | Reading Rockets

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Exit slips are written student responses to questions teachers pose at the end of a class or lesson. These quick, informal assessments enable teachers to quickly assess students’ understanding of the material.

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Jill's Special Hike - There are many creatures that live in the forest. Birds, bears, foxes, coyotes, squirrels, rabbits and sometimes even bigger animals like moose. But you don't often see these animals together.

Being a second or third grade student, we have a number of books having illustrations and pictures to explain the text properly. These illustrations may seem like regular pictures at first, however, they contain much depth and meaning to extract from. A student can understand the entire story by just seeing the illustrations. How? Let's find out.

Illustrations:

Illustrations are the pictures or graphics that attractively portray the actions or characters of the story. These pictures gradually help in developing the story and indicating the plot for the readers to understand it properly and with convenience.

Tips To Explain a Story From Illustrations:

See the Pictures to Understand First

See the illustrations first and see how they appear. Illustrations and pictures tell you a scenario or story beautifully and in an attractive manner. However, a room is left for the reader to raise queries and understand what the illustration is trying to portray. Look at the illustrations and develop questions like what I should look or find with this picture. What does it state and indicate.

Interpret what the pictures say and what needs to be found?

Now after seeing the picture first, start working in your mind the possible scenarios. Explain the question and start looking for the answers about what the characters in the illustrations represent and show. After seeing the obvious thing, move forward towards the technicalities.

Explain the illustrations contribution to the story

As said earlier, illustrations explain the story extensively. The characters in the illustrations show the actions that need to be examined and analyzed. Try finding out about the setting of the story and contribution of the characters to it. This section also explains the characters' actions that contribute towards developing the story.

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Explaining A Story From Illustrations Worksheets

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Jill's Special Hike - There are many creatures that live in the forest. Birds, bears, foxes, coyotes, squirrels, rabbits and sometimes even bigger animals like moose. But you don't often see these animals together. Being a second or third grade student, we have a number of books having illustrations and pictures to explain the text properly.

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ELL Guided Reading: Part 1 Before Reading

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ELL Guided Reading: Part 1 Before Reading

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ELL Guided Reading: Part 2 During Reading

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ELL Guided Reading: Part 2 During Reading

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ELL Guided Reading: Part 3 After Reading

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ELL Guided Reading: Part 3 After Reading

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Free for educators! Give students unlimited in-class access to the best books & videos on Epic

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Special Education Strategy - Using Questions to Aid in Reading Comprehension

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The National Center for Learning Disabilities presents examples of accommodations that allow students with learning disabilities to show what they know without giving them an unfair advantage. Accommodations are divided into the following categories: how information is presented to the student, how…

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This link provided shows how and why these are good ways to reteach students activities. The videos provided below shows examples on how to use the teaching strategies.

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Are you struggling with what to do while reteaching a concept to your students? Try these six strategies to beef up your reteach, and make your students feel like rockstars!

Build Schema

Sometimes our students have a difficult time understanding a concept because they have no prior knowledge of it. Providing real world examples that they can connect to will increase engagement and allow their brains to build a framework for understanding.

One of my favorite ways to build schema is through YouTube videos related to the topic. Our students are deeply interested in video, and if you are able to find a current video that accurately explains a topic they get really into it. From there I encourage students to ask questions to build into our reteach.

Peer Coach

Sometimes students have already heard it from teachers several times and they aren't making the necessary connections to the content. When this happens, give peer coaching a try.

In order for peer coaching to be successful it is important to carefully think through who you have in the role of coach. It is tempting to select a student who has shown complete mastery of the content, but the more powerful choice is a student who is right on the cusp of mastery without having achieved it yet. This makes the coaching process powerful for both the coach and the students being coached.

I introduce the coach as the "content expert" to the group and give them the floor. In addition I love to record the way the coach introduces and teaches the concept to the group to refer back to. By having a peer coach, students are able to hear the content in a different way, from a different person who they trust.

These Big Ten Math Stations are a perfect took to use along with peer coaching. Each unit offers ten different stations built around the same standard to allow students ample practice towards mastery. They are available for second, third, fourth, and fifth grade in bundles or separately.

Cooperative Learning Strategies

I am slightly cooperative learning obsessed. I love cooperative learning strategies for all areas of the classroom and academic spectrum, but they are especially great for reteaching.

While there are far too many strategies to name that would be perfect for reteaching, my absolute favorite has to be sage and scribe.

To complete Sage-N-Scribe

1. Partner A has the pencil

2. Partner B thinks out loud while Partner A scribes for them giving them praise or corrections

3. Partner A and Partner B switch rolls and repeat

This strategy is amazing for all students, because voicing their thinking really makes them work on their metacognition and work on academic vocabulary. It also allows me, as the teacher, to hear how my students are doing. The power really is in the conversations.

Focus on Vocabulary

Vocabulary really is everything, it can not be underutilized in the classroom. I am a big advocate for pre-teaching vocabulary, but I also understand that it does not always happen. When students struggle with a concept it is imperative that we take the time to ensure that it is not the vocabulary that is getting in the way.

There are a myriad of ways to focus on vocabulary, the important part is that you do it. When students are comfortable using academic vocabulary in oral and written language they are able to better grasp concepts as a whole.

One of my favorite ways to include vocabulary, and get students writing, is through photo quick writes. I show students a photo as well as give them a word bank of vocabulary terms to use to write everything they know about the concept. Their writing is a great way to flush out what vocabulary they truly know and what needs some more work.

Another easy activity to complete with vocabulary is a word sort where students simply take a deck of vocabulary cards, like these word wall cards, and sort them into words they know and words they need help with.

Use Visuals

Our goal is always to reach learners in as many ways as possible, and one of the easiest ways to reach a new learning style is through visuals.

This might mean creating an anchor chart together, making individual mind maps, illustrating vocabulary words, or sketch notes. The sky is truly the limit, and follow the guidance of your students when it comes to visuals.

Check for Understanding Often

Often it is difficult to apprehend where the break down is when it comes to understanding, so it becomes important to stop and check for understanding as often as humanly possible while reteaching.

Whatever you do, just do it early and often.

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Are you struggling with what to do while reteaching a concept to your students? Try these six strategies to beef up your reteach, and make your students feel like rockstars! Sometimes our students have a difficult time understanding a concept because they have no prior knowledge of it.

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How to Teach Children to Use Their Schema for Reading Comprehension!

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Drawing For Visualization & Reading Comprehension

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Drawing For Visualization & Reading Comprehension

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Drawing For Visualization & Reading Comprehension - Mosswood Connections

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Drawing For Visualization & Reading Comprehension. Visualizing strengthens reading comprehension skills and it's a fun way for kids to show they understand.

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Pre-teaching vocabulary is a strategy in which teachers introduce students to new vocabulary words before reading a text selection that contains the new vocabulary words. According to Literacy in Context, "When teachers pre-teach vocabulary, they introduce unfamiliar terms to students before they begin to read the text, and students have a heightened awareness of the vocabulary that they will encounter while reading." (Miller and Veatch, 2011, p.19) Adolescent Literacy states that "[pre-teaching vocabulary] facilitates the reading of new text by giving students the meanings of the words before they encounter them." (2007, p. 16) This strategy is particularly helpful in situations where students will encounter words that they have no familiarity with and would have trouble deciphering the word meaning from context or word analysis.

Research has shown that this strategy will help students by helping to improve their comprehension of the text they are reading. (Miller and Veatch, 2011, p.19) Pre-teaching vocabulary reduces the number of unfamiliar words the students will encounter in the text and boosts vocabulary acquisition. (Adolescent Literacy, 2007, p. 16)

Some of the benefits of using this strategy include the ability to teach multiple meanings of words and the ability to teach both specific academic words and non-specific-academic words. According to Literacy in Context, "pre-teaching selected vocabulary allows students to see that some words have academic definitions that are different from their everyday meanings." (Miller and Veatch, 2011, p. 19) This text goes on to say that this is especially beneficial for English learners or students who are struggling with academic language. Adolescent Literacy discusses how both specific academic words and non-specific academic words can be taught with this strategy. Some of the non-specific academic words that should be taught are recognize, analyze, result, impact, and relationship. (2007, p. 16) These are words that are not related to a specific content area, but may be seen in a multitude of texts.

The best way to pre-teach vocabulary words is to allow students to have repeated exposures to the new vocab words. This can be done by using any of the following ideas: pronouncing the new word, giving the meaning, discussing the words parts, writing the word on the board, and using the word in a sentence or question. (Adolescent Literacy, 2007, p. 16)

The teacher in this video demonstrates how to use the pre-teaching vocabulary strategy. She first writes the new words on the board. She asks for student volunteers to pronounce the words and give definitions and examples. She then puts the students into groups and gives them a vocabulary word to act out. As students act out their words in groups, the rest of the students try to guess which word is being acted out.

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Pre-teaching vocabulary is a strategy in which teachers introduce students to new vocabulary words before reading a text selection that contains the new vocabulary words. According to Literacy in...