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This is where the students read a specific book aloud to me and answer various questions to demonstrate comprehension skills. The read aloud measures their fluency (speed and ease of reading) and...
View ArticleStrategies for teaching reading fluency - by Frances Stanford - Helium
Being able to read fluently means that children can read sentences smoothly.See it on Scoop.it, via What Do Good Readers Do?
View ArticleMake Reading Count: Effective Strategies for Teaching Comprehension Webcast...
Offers effective teaching strategies, activities, lessons, lesson plans, worksheets, exercises, skills, tests, assessments for reading comprehension, language arts, literacy, fluency, phonics and...
View ArticleMrs. Coutts' Grade One/Two Class » Blog Archive » Curriculum ...
The focus of instruction in literacy is Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanding Vocabulary. Our students are learning strategies to check for understanding. Guided reading instruction models...
View ArticleIn My Classroom: The Forest and the Trees: Troubleshooting Theme
Use lower level texts for teaching theme: This year, I had wonderful success with Mole and the Baby Bird. Now, this is a ...See it on Scoop.it, via What Do Good Readers Do?
View ArticleMaking Inferences to Read Between the Lines « LessonCast
Teaching students to Make Inferences: Read Between the Lines (2-min video) http://t.co/OJpvb0JL @Lessoncast...See it on Scoop.it, via What Do Good Readers Do?
View ArticleWards Way of Teaching: Text Connections
Text Connections. I have noticed a major trend while teaching from the new Houghton Mifflin curriculum. Every single lesson relates back to making connections. Text.Self.World. So I thought it would...
View ArticleHopping into First Grade: Text-to-Text Connections
At any rate, I have been working on text-to-text connections with my students. I have realized that I need to work on different types of t->t connections. First, there is the typical fiction to...
View ArticleFor the Love of Teaching: Metacognitive Strategies for Reading ...
While some students may eventually learn some of these strategies on their own, they can be taught quite effectively in the early elementary grades. ... Use schema.See it on Scoop.it, via What Do Good...
View Article#READING GAMES FOR KIDS: Balanced Literacy
Balanced literacy is a theory based on the idea that there are many different learning styles for children who are learning to read. There are many different teaching methods that are effective ways...
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Research on peer-assisted learning strategies: The promise and limitations of peer mediated instruction. Reading & Writing Quarterly, 22(1), 5–25. Murawski, W. (2010). Collaborative teaching in...
View ArticleOverview of Balanced Literacy - MyLearningSpringboard.com
Balanced Literacy includes both reading and writing instruction, each in a variety of settings, within the elementary classroom.See it on Scoop.it, via What Do Good Readers Do?
View ArticleStudent Interactives - ReadWriteThink
Engage your students in online literacy learning with these interactive tools that help them accomplish a variety of goals—from organizing their thoughts to learning about language—all while having...
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View ArticleChoral Reading | Classroom Strategies | Reading Rockets
Choral reading is reading aloud in unison with a whole class or group of students. Choral reading helps build students' fluency, self-confidence, and motivation. Because students are reading aloud...
View ArticleComprehension Strategies - Making connections, questioning, inferring,...
from Strategies That Work, Mosaic of Thought, and Reading with Meaning, this page gives you information on the six comprehension strategies known as making connections, questioning, visualizing,...
View ArticleMotivation | Reading Topics A-Z | Reading Rockets
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