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5 Reasons to Use Nearpod in the Classroom

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5 Reasons to Use Nearpod in the Classroom - Nearpod is a free tool that you can use to create enriched multimedia presentations. Great guest blog post by Jen Kimbrell of Tech with Jen

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This document contains 6 different printables that can be used to help develop and build vocabulary for any subject. Instruction can easily be differentiated with use of these printables - there is something here for everyone!

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Roll and Read Sight Word Phrases!  TONS of fun and hands-on resources for 2nd Grade!

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Apple Tree World Family Literacy Game ~ Learn Play Imagine

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Word family apple trees - a literacy game for fall

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A list of great nonfiction books for kids, and a giveaway for a National Geographic Kids magazine subscription. #giveaway

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Hickety Pickety Bumblebee.  Can you say the letter with me? Now shout it! Whisper it! Clap it! Stomp it! Write it! Cheer it!  Getting kids excited about learning new letters!  Introducing new letters to your preschool class...fun!

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Anchor Chart for Reading Response Letters.

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Buggy for Second Grade: Valentine Gift and a Helper!

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Many cute ideas.  This is an anchor chart for Writing workshop using Lucy Calkins' ideas.

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Can be stories, poems, magazines enjoyed by children.

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Word processor: Computers have not made the process of writing or the generations of ideas any easier.  What it has done is allow authors to:

- Revise easily

-Edit instantaneously

- Move text quickly from one place to another

-Access online resources and databases

-Have text spell-checked and grammar-proofed

-Access a built-in thesaurus that generates synonyms

-Produce professional-looking documents that are ready for publishing.

Skill-Based Software Programs: usually focus on a few skills and provide a simple "skill-and-drill" format.  This can be beneficial for students who need to reinforce specific skills in a motivating way.

Creative Expressive Software Programs: These often include page-layout templates that provide an easy way for children to write and illustrate their work.

Multimedia Programs: Children get a chance to express themselves through visual and textual means as they incorporate many of the multimedia features into their composition.  These programs are highly motivating and allows teachers to provide instruction that is suited for many different learning styles.

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Padleting Together » Third Graders, Dreaming Big

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Using Padlet in the classroom with a PDF download of ideas... #edchat #ettipad

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Writing as a Process and Writing Workshop

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Writing as a Process and Writing Workshop

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Writing as a process involves many stages, each of which is as valuable as the next, each focusing on the overall design and purpose of the final product.  The stages to this strategy are not linear and hierarchical, but rather circle back and overlap with each other.

Writing Workshop: a workshop type of environment is created where children have the opportunity to engage in enjoyable writing and reading activities.  The writing workshop is student-centered in the sense that each student's development and expression of an idea is the primary goal of this phase of literacy.

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My January Top Ten List: Writing Lessons and Resources

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Readers Workshop is a strategy that Nancie Atwell introduced as an alternative to the traditional skills-based reading lesson and has been adapted as part of a balanced approach to literacy.  Its main focus is to foster a love of reading within students by having them read books that they choose themselves, and then respond to books through writing in their journals, conferences with teachers, and sharing thoughts and ideas within small groups.

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Prediction: Prediction encourages readers to speculate about the text based on the collection and analysis of "clues" from the book: illustrations, titles or subtitles, key words from the text, character names or descriptions, or short excerpts from the text.

Monitoring Comprehension: Self-monitoring is a strategy that readers that lets them know whether they are reading correctly and provides them with strategies if they do not comprehend what they have read.

Using Graphic and Semantic Organizers: Graphic organizers are visual diagrams that portray the relations among concepts and help readers organize, classify, and structure information from a text, whether it be stories or content-based materials.

Generating Student Questions: By asking many different types of questions, a student will learn how to monitor his or her own reading and comprehend the text through a deeper, more thoughtful approach. This can be done in a pair-share, where after reading a passage, two students pair up and write down different types of questions to ask eachother.

Recognizing Story Structure: By identifying the elements of a story structure, children improve their comprehension of narrative text and become familiar with the structure of narrative prose.

Summarizing: When the reader is asked to restate what the author has said in a concise format.

Sequencing of Events: Sequencing is a basic strategy that allows the reader to order the events of the text in a logical order, usually chronologically.

Identifying the Idea: Teaching children how to identify the main idea of a text is difficult; however, unless the reader can distinguish between essential and nonessential information in contrast with knowing what the central idea of a selection is, he or she cannot become a successful reader.

Using Context Cues:  Inferring the meaning of a word using the context of the sentence is an essential strategy that readers use constantly as they process print.  When a reader comes across a word that he or she may not know, the reader must identify clues in the sentence that will unlock the meaning of that word.

Comparing and Contrasting: Showing how things are alike and how things are different is one of the most important ways to help students develop their understanding of comparing and contrasting.

Drawing Conclusions: Drawing conclusions is a strategy that is based on the effective use of other strategies previously described.  For a reader to effectively draw conclusions, he or she first needs to be able to predict, sequence the material, and summarize.

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Reading is Thinking comprehension strategy - great post and you can download this image too!

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is a process by which people acquire words. Babbling shifts towards meaningful speech as infants grow and produce their first words around the age of one year.

Sight Vocabulary Words: are those words that a reader can recognize automatically and instantaneously during the process of reading.

Reading Vocabulary Words: The student may not be able to automatically recognize the word in print, but does know the referent meaning behind the word.

Instructional Strategies: Semantic Mapping, categorizing words, relating new words to familiar words or concepts, and brainstorming, mapping, and prereading activities.

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great blog for upper elementary, an abundance of fresh ideas for vocabulary development

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Read Alouds: The teacher reads aloud to the whole group.  In the primary grades, this usually takes place on a rug or in a comfortable group area.  Quality children's literature is used representing many different genres.

Shared Reading: The class engages in reading a book together, usually an enlarged big book for the primary grades.

Guided Reading: The teacher works with a small group of students who are on approximately the same level of reading and have similar needs.  The group works with books that have been selected by the teacher to match the group's reading level.  The group reads the book out loud and the teacher works with each member to support basic reading strategies.  Specific skills and strategies are taught in a supportive session.

Independent Reading: Children read books independently that have been chosen by the teacher, or that they have chosen from a range of material on their own level. The teacher carefully selects range of books that the students can read based on current reading level.

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Everything you need to make GUIDED READING interesting and engaging!

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Third Grade. Reading Comprehension Strategies.

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The ability to read text quickly, accurately, and with proper expression.

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Spin and read a Fry Phrase!  Such a FUN way to practice fluency!  Reading becomes a game!

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The understanding that phonemes (sounds) in spoken language are related to graphemes (letters) in written language

that can be used to sound out words for reading and writing.

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FREE Phonics worksheets on short vowels | cvc worksheets short a, short e, short i, short o, short u....trace the word, fill in the vowel, see it spell it, build a word....

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The ability to hear, to identify, and to manipulate sounds in spoken language.

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How do you teach phoneme segmentation?  4 activities for teaching this skill and a video on how to introduce and use each one.