Wordless Wednesday: January 28th – Code It!


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We have been making inferences for the past couple of weeks in my classroom. This is a tough skill for my second grade sweeties. Today, we…
Every day, I’m thrilled to receive your positive and kind feedback on my Sight Word Fluency Passages for Reading Intervention pack. It’s an awesome feeling to…
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Like many of you, I use a behavior clip chart in my classroom. My students start on green each morning and can move up or down…
My favorite reading strategy to use with my older students is predict/prove it. This is a terrific go-to, low to no prep strategy that works best for fictional material. Based on what a student knows and the material previewed or all ready read, he/she makes a prediction of what is yet to come. Then he/she reads and either proves or disproves the prediction with textual evidence… simple and VERY effective.
LOVE this linky!
Angela
Cause and effect can be a tough one! Thanks for this idea. 🙂 My favorite is probably using illustrations to learn more about the text.
One Lucky Teacher
I love to teach fluency with songs and silly voices. 🙂
Deb
Not very fancy
I love to teach inferencing. There are so many engaging activities to use. I keep adding to my bag of tricks each year. Oh, my daughter LOVED that Tiger and Lily book last year! She read it to me repeatedly and probably still has it stashed somewhere in her room. We've moved on now to Mr. Putter and Tabby and Breyer Stablemates books.
Jan
Laughter and Consistency
I'm agreeing with JanCT – I do love teaching inferencing! I try to use the word, infer, as much as possible so the kids can learn it.
I love to teach compare and contrast! There's so many different activities the kids can be involved into really understand the concept and different things you can expose them to. Like comparing/contrasting two objects, two animals, two stories, or two characters. I love hearing them use the words in other areas also like math!
Jayme
Teach Talk Inspire
Great idea! I love teaching rhyming and word patterns using poetry and songs. It is one of the favorite times of our day for the kiddos. I have 99% ESL students and this has been a fantastic strategy to help them with language skills in general.
~Laura
Luv My Kinders