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If you are an upper elementary teacher, chances are that you have a wide range of ability levels within your 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade classroom. Sometimes it can feel overwhelming to meet each child's needs and help him/her grow as a reader. If you want to create a plan to ensure that your small group lessons are easy to plan, easy to teach, and are easy to extend, this blog post and video is for you! Click the link above to find out how to make small groups work well and run smoothly. Elementary Lesson Plans, Elementary Teacher, Upper Elementary, Small Group Reading, Reading Groups, Reading Lessons, Reading Strategies, Teaching Plan, Teaching Ideas
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If you are an upper elementary teacher, chances are that you have a wide range of ability levels within your 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade classroom. Sometimes it can feel overwhelming to meet each child's needs and help him/her grow as a reader. If you want to create a plan to ensure that your small group lessons are easy to plan, easy to teach, and are easy to extend, this blog post and video is for you! Click the link above to find out how to make small groups work well and run smoothly.
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Adding accountability to Reading Workshop can be challenging! It's tricky to encourage a love of reading while still finding ways to assess upper elementary students. Spending too much time on writing assignments can also take away time from reading! This post is filled with 10 ways you can add different types of accountability using the Reading Workshop model to make sure your students are engaged in real reading experiences and mastering grade level standards. Click the link to find out more! Teaching Upper Elementary, Elementary Grades, Reading Resources, Reading Activities, Reading Comprehension, Reading Stations
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Adding accountability to Reading Workshop can be challenging! It's tricky to encourage a love of reading while still finding ways to assess upper elementary students. Spending too much time on writing assignments can also take away time from reading! This post is filled with 10 ways you can add different types of accountability using the Reading Workshop model to make sure your students are engaged in real reading experiences and mastering grade level standards. Click the link to find out more!
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If you've ever used the Reading Workshop model, you might know that it can be difficult to teach mini-lessons in a limited amount of time! This post has lots of practical, helpful tips from a seasoned teacher to help you teach effective mini-lessons that fit the 10 - 15 minute time frame. From ideas of what to do to prepare mini-lessons to strategies to use during the mini-lesson, you'll find out ways to make your mini-lessons short and sweet but super successful! Click the link to read more! Micro Teaching Ideas, Teaching Lessons, Teaching Reading, Teaching Third Grade
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If you've ever used the Reading Workshop model, you might know that it can be difficult to teach mini-lessons in a limited amount of time! This post has lots of practical, helpful tips from a seasoned teacher to help you teach effective mini-lessons that fit the 10 - 15 minute time frame. From ideas of what to do to prepare mini-lessons to strategies to use during the mini-lesson, you'll find out ways to make your mini-lessons short and sweet but super successful! Click the link to read more!
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Do lesson plans for reading seem to take forever? Want an easier way to plan your reading block? This post has a step-by-step, no fail method for planning out a year's worth of reading lesson plans. It includes a FREE Pacing Guide for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades in color, BW, for Common Core, and editable versions so you can customize it! Click the link to find out a way to reduce the time and stress involved by creating lesson plans that work for you! Reading Lesson Plans, Teacher Lesson Plans, Primary Resources, Classroom Resources, Reading Unit
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Do lesson plans for reading seem to take forever? Want an easier way to plan your reading block? This post has a step-by-step, no fail method for planning out a year's worth of reading lesson plans. It includes a FREE Pacing Guide for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades in color, BW, for Common Core, and editable versions so you can customize it! Click the link to find out a way to reduce the time and stress involved by creating lesson plans that work for you!
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Want to learn more about creating an effective Share Time using the Reading Workshop model? This post will guide you through each aspect of Share Time with lots of ideas for upper elementary activities. Whether you're just starting to learn about Reading Workshop or are looking to improve your reading instruction, you'll love the practical tips and strategies to make your Share Time more successful! Click to find out more. 5th Grade Reading, Reading Tips, Reading Workshop
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Want to learn more about creating an effective Share Time using the Reading Workshop model? This post will guide you through each aspect of Share Time with lots of ideas for upper elementary activities. Whether you're just starting to learn about Reading Workshop or are looking to improve your reading instruction, you'll love the practical tips and strategies to make your Share Time more successful! Click to find out more.
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Want to learn more about how to run effective reading conferences using Reading Workshop? This post will guide you through each aspect of conferring with readers during independent reading time. It includes a step-by-step guide to lead you through each step of the process. Whether you're just starting to learn about Reading Workshop or want to improve your reading instruction, you'll love the practical tips and strategies to make your reading conferences successful! Click to find out more.
Want to learn more about how to run effective reading conferences using Reading Workshop? This post will guide you through each aspect of conferring with readers during independent reading time. It includes a step-by-step guide to lead you through each step of the process. Whether you're just starting to learn about Reading Workshop or want to improve your reading instruction, you'll love the practical tips and strategies to make your reading conferences successful! Click to find out more.
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Want to learn more about creating an effective independent reading time using the Reading Workshop model? This post will guide you through each aspect of independent reading time, from creating a meeting area to teaching rules and expectations for this important time. Whether you're just starting to learn about Reading Workshop or are looking to improve your reading instruction, you'll love the practical tips and strategies to make your indepedent reading time successful! Click to find out more.
Want to learn more about creating an effective independent reading time using the Reading Workshop model? This post will guide you through each aspect of independent reading time, from creating a meeting area to teaching rules and expectations for this important time. Whether you're just starting to learn about Reading Workshop or are looking to improve your reading instruction, you'll love the practical tips and strategies to make your indepedent reading time successful! Click to find out more.
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Want to learn more about how to plan and teach mini-lessons using a Reading Workshop model? This post will guide you through the mini-lesson process with a step-by-step dive into each of its components. You'll find helpful sentence starters for each part of the mini-lesson too. Whether you are just starting to learn about Reading Workshop or are looking to improve your reading instruction, you'll love the practical tips and strategies to make your mini-lessons successful! Click to find out more. Primary Teachers
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Want to learn more about how to plan and teach mini-lessons using a Reading Workshop model? This post will guide you through the mini-lesson process with a step-by-step dive into each of its components. You'll find helpful sentence starters for each part of the mini-lesson too. Whether you are just starting to learn about Reading Workshop or are looking to improve your reading instruction, you'll love the practical tips and strategies to make your mini-lessons successful! Click to find out more.
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Looking for a way to maximize reading time to allow you to target standards more easily and efficiently? When I started using question stems, it changed the way I was able to precisely target reading skills and strategies. It helped by providing a variety of focused and higher-level thinking questions that could be used for reading conferences. literacy centers, reading response activities, and exit tickets. Click the link to find out more! Middle School Reading, Reading Centers, Reading Time, Literacy Centers, Reading Response Questions
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Looking for a way to maximize reading time to allow you to target standards more easily and efficiently? When I started using question stems, it changed the way I was able to precisely target reading skills and strategies. It helped by providing a variety of focused and higher-level thinking questions that could be used for reading conferences. literacy centers, reading response activities, and exit tickets. Click the link to find out more!
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Why would you want your students to fall in love with poetry? Besides the fact that poetry appears often on standardized testing, poetry is great for fluency practice, a perfect size for reluctant readers, and can be so much fun! In this post you'll find some of my favorite and oh-so-easy ways to promote a love of poetry in your upper elementary classroom. Find practical ideas you can use tomorrow by clicking on the link to hop over! Poetry Reading, Poetry Unit, Poetry Books, Number Poems, Types Of Poems
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Why would you want your students to fall in love with poetry? Besides the fact that poetry appears often on standardized testing, poetry is great for fluency practice, a perfect size for reluctant readers, and can be so much fun! In this post you'll find some of my favorite and oh-so-easy ways to promote a love of poetry in your upper elementary classroom. Find practical ideas you can use tomorrow by clicking on the link to hop over!
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If you'd like to use a Reading Workshop model in your upper elementary classroom but aren't sure where to start, this post will help you launch Reading Workshop in an effective way! It includes specific routines and expectations as well as key reading comprehension strategies to teach during the first four weeks. Click the link to read more. Reading Comprehension Strategies
Reading Comprehension Strategies
If you'd like to use a Reading Workshop model in your upper elementary classroom but aren't sure where to start, this post will help you launch Reading Workshop in an effective way! It includes specific routines and expectations as well as key reading comprehension strategies to teach during the first four weeks. Click the link to read more.
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Teaching upper elementary students to determine importance as they read can be challenging but is one of the key reading comprehension strategies. This post has lots of quality picture books you can use for mini-lessons in reading workshop or guided reading to help your students practice determining importance. Mastering this reading concept can help boost reading comprehension! Click on the link to find out more! Guided Reading, The Teacher Next Door, Patricia Polacco, Gym Classes, New Classroom
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Teaching upper elementary students to determine importance as they read can be challenging but is one of the key reading comprehension strategies. This post has lots of quality picture books you can use for mini-lessons in reading workshop or guided reading to help your students practice determining importance. Mastering this reading concept can help boost reading comprehension! Click on the link to find out more!
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Teaching upper elementary students to determine importance as they read can be challenging but is one of the key reading comprehension strategies. This post has lots of quality picture books you can use for mini-lessons in reading workshop or guided reading to help your students practice determining importance. Mastering this reading concept can help boost reading comprehension! Click on the link to find out more! Mentor Texts, Mini Lessons, 5th Grades
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Teaching upper elementary students to determine importance as they read can be challenging but is one of the key reading comprehension strategies. This post has lots of quality picture books you can use for mini-lessons in reading workshop or guided reading to help your students practice determining importance. Mastering this reading concept can help boost reading comprehension! Click on the link to find out more!
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Looking for a way to reinforce synthesizing as a reading comprehension strategy during Reading Workshop or Guided Reading? These mentor texts are a great way to give your upper elementary students practice synthesizing using literature. The picture books selected have text and illustrations that provide plenty of synthesizing skill-building opportunities with literature your students will enjoy. Click to hop over and find mentor text ideas for reading instruction time. Reading Graphic Organizers, Levels Of Understanding, Context Clues, Reading Instruction
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Looking for a way to reinforce synthesizing as a reading comprehension strategy during Reading Workshop or Guided Reading? These mentor texts are a great way to give your upper elementary students practice synthesizing using literature. The picture books selected have text and illustrations that provide plenty of synthesizing skill-building opportunities with literature your students will enjoy. Click to hop over and find mentor text ideas for reading instruction time.
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Looking for a way to reinforce visualizing as a reading comprehension strategy during Reading Workshop or Guided Reading? These mentor texts are a great way to give your upper elementary students practice creating mental images when using literature. The picture books selected have text and illustrations that provide plenty of visualizing opportunities with stories your students will enjoy. Click to hop over and find mentor text ideas for reading instruction time. Struggling Readers
Struggling Readers
Looking for a way to reinforce visualizing as a reading comprehension strategy during Reading Workshop or Guided Reading? These mentor texts are a great way to give your upper elementary students practice creating mental images when using literature. The picture books selected have text and illustrations that provide plenty of visualizing opportunities with stories your students will enjoy. Click to hop over and find mentor text ideas for reading instruction time.
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Looking for a way to reinforce asking and answering questions as a reading strategy during Reading Workshop or Guided Reading? These mentor texts are a great way to give your upper elementary students practice questioning strategies using literature. The picture books selected have text and illustrations that provide plenty of questioning skill-building opportunities in a format your students will enjoy. Click to hop over and find mentor text ideas for reading instruction time. Questioning Strategies, Reading Is Thinking
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Looking for a way to reinforce asking and answering questions as a reading strategy during Reading Workshop or Guided Reading? These mentor texts are a great way to give your upper elementary students practice questioning strategies using literature. The picture books selected have text and illustrations that provide plenty of questioning skill-building opportunities in a format your students will enjoy. Click to hop over and find mentor text ideas for reading instruction time.
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Looking for a way to reinforce inference making as a reading strategy during Reading Workshop or Guided Reading? These mentor texts are full of inferences and are a great way to give your upper elementary students practice making inferences using literature. The picture books selected have text and illustrations that provide plenty of inference skill-building opportunities in a format your students will enjoy. Click to hop over and find mentor text ideas for reading instruction time. 4th Grade Reading, Reading Skills, Inference Pictures, Inference Activities
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Looking for a way to reinforce inference making as a reading strategy during Reading Workshop or Guided Reading? These mentor texts are full of inferences and are a great way to give your upper elementary students practice making inferences using literature. The picture books selected have text and illustrations that provide plenty of inference skill-building opportunities in a format your students will enjoy. Click to hop over and find mentor text ideas for reading instruction time.
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Teaching upper elementary students to monitor comprehension as they read to check for understanding is one of the key reading comprehension strategies. This post has lots of quality picture books you can use for mini-lessons in reading workshop or guided reading to help your students practice monitoring comprehension. and how to use fix-up strategies when comprehension breaks down. Click on the link to find out more! Monitor Comprehension, Literacy Books, Literacy Skills, Teaching Tools
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Teaching upper elementary students to monitor comprehension as they read to check for understanding is one of the key reading comprehension strategies. This post has lots of quality picture books you can use for mini-lessons in reading workshop or guided reading to help your students practice monitoring comprehension. and how to use fix-up strategies when comprehension breaks down. Click on the link to find out more!
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Teaching upper elementary students to make predictions as they read and then to confirm those predictions or to alter them is one of the key reading comprehension strategies. This post has lots of quality picture books you can use for mini-lessons in reading workshop or guided reading to help your students practice making predictions. Mastering this reading concept can help boost reading comprehension! Click on the link to find out more! Learning Resources, Making Predictions, Homeschool Projects
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Teaching upper elementary students to make predictions as they read and then to confirm those predictions or to alter them is one of the key reading comprehension strategies. This post has lots of quality picture books you can use for mini-lessons in reading workshop or guided reading to help your students practice making predictions. Mastering this reading concept can help boost reading comprehension! Click on the link to find out more!
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Looking for mentor texts to help your upper elementary students make meaningful Text to Self Connections? This post has lots of quality picture books you can use for mini-lessons in reading workshop or guided reading! Using books to model this reading strategy helps your students identify ways their experiences help them connect to book themes and increases their reading comprehension. Click on the link to find out more! Student Teaching, Teaching Resources, Text To Self Connection, Text To Text Connections
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Looking for mentor texts to help your upper elementary students make meaningful Text to Self Connections? This post has lots of quality picture books you can use for mini-lessons in reading workshop or guided reading! Using books to model this reading strategy helps your students identify ways their experiences help them connect to book themes and increases their reading comprehension. Click on the link to find out more!
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Looking for similar mentor texts to help your upper elementary students make meaningful Text to Text Connections? This post has lots of quality picture book pairs you can use for mini-lessons in reading workshop or guided reading! Using books to model this reading strategy helps your students compare and contrast texts and increases their reading comprehension. Text to Text Connections are also great for class discussions! Click on the link to find out more! Reading Literature
Reading Literature
Looking for similar mentor texts to help your upper elementary students make meaningful Text to Text Connections? This post has lots of quality picture book pairs you can use for mini-lessons in reading workshop or guided reading! Using books to model this reading strategy helps your students compare and contrast texts and increases their reading comprehension. Text to Text Connections are also great for class discussions! Click on the link to find out more!
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Want to teach your upper elementary students to make meaningful Text to World Connections? This post has lots of mentor texts you can use for mini-lessons in reading workshop or guided reading! Using quality picture books allows you to model this reading strategy effectively to help your students engage with the text and increase their reading comprehension. Text to World Connections are also great for class discussions! To find out more, click on the link to hop over and take a look! Text To World
Text To World
Want to teach your upper elementary students to make meaningful Text to World Connections? This post has lots of mentor texts you can use for mini-lessons in reading workshop or guided reading! Using quality picture books allows you to model this reading strategy effectively to help your students engage with the text and increase their reading comprehension. Text to World Connections are also great for class discussions! To find out more, click on the link to hop over and take a look!
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Did you know that graphic organizers can be an amazing learning tool? In fact, using graphic organizers for reading or for any subject, really, can improve student learning! In this post, you'll find five simple tips to help you get the most out of graphic organizers in your upper elementary classroom! Find out practical ways to use them to target both fiction and nonfiction reading skills to help your students grow! Click the link to read more! Fourth Grade, Learning Tools
Fourth Grade
Learning Tools
Did you know that graphic organizers can be an amazing learning tool? In fact, using graphic organizers for reading or for any subject, really, can improve student learning! In this post, you'll find five simple tips to help you get the most out of graphic organizers in your upper elementary classroom! Find out practical ways to use them to target both fiction and nonfiction reading skills to help your students grow! Click the link to read more!
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Want to find out how you can use anchor charts for reading more effectively? This post is full of questions to consider, practical tips, and resources to describe how anchor charts can help reinforce fiction and nonfiction reading skills in upper elementary. Find out how to use them for whole class lessons, minilessons in reading workshop or guided reading, for strategy groups, partner work, and one to one intervention. Click to read more!
Want to find out how you can use anchor charts for reading more effectively? This post is full of questions to consider, practical tips, and resources to describe how anchor charts can help reinforce fiction and nonfiction reading skills in upper elementary. Find out how to use them for whole class lessons, minilessons in reading workshop or guided reading, for strategy groups, partner work, and one to one intervention. Click to read more!
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