I absolutely love read alouds and try to use them as often as I can in the classroom. If you’re anything like me, the end of winter and arrival of spring is something to celebrate. I’m sure your students feel the same way too. Here are ten of my favorite picture books for spring to …
Tag: Reading Comprehension
Asking and Answering Questions
Asking and Answering Questions At the start of each school year, I love to cover the “Ask and Answer Questions Standard” (CCSSR.L.2.1). This standard works perfectly for the beginning of the school year, because it’s relatively easy for students to get the hang of and essential when understanding the texts throughout the rest of the …
Graphic organizers for Reading Comprehension
Using Graphic Organizers For Reading Comprehension Are you using graphic organizers in your classroom? Let me tell you, they can be a game changer for directing students thinking and helping them comprehend what they’ve read. In this post I’ll share how using graphic organizers for reading comprehension can truly benefit your reading instruction. What Are …
Use Task Cards to Increase Reading Comprehension
HOW to Use Task Cards to Increase Reading Comprehension Do you use task cards during your reading instruction? From my very first weeks as an elementary school teacher, I could tell how beneficial task cards were to my reading instruction. Task cards are loaded with benefits, but possibly my favorite is the fact that …
How to Teach Students to Make Inferences
HOw to teach students to make inferences Are you wondering how to teach students to make inferences? Teaching students how to make inferences about the text they read can be TOUGH! This is because inferencing is not as direct as looking back into the text for answers. In order for students to infer they have …
How to Teach Main Idea and Supporting Details
How to Teach Main Idea and Supporting Details Teaching students how to identify the main idea and details of a text can be tricky. We can give our students passages to read and then ask, “Okay, now what was it all about?” This skill can seem overwhelming for students to master and us to teach. …
Tips to Teach Context Clues
One way to instill confidence in your students’ reading abilities is to help them master context clues! Using context clues to understand a new word’s meaning is something our students will continue to use far beyond their time in our classrooms. Today I want to share with you a few tips to teach context clues …
5 Ways to Help Your Students Master Summarizing
Teaching students to summarize seems like it should be fairly easy. There are no comprehension questions, no digging deeper into the text and no activating prior knowledge. After all everything they need is right there in front of them. In this blogpost I’ll share 5 ways to help your students master summarizing. But easy is …