Reading strategies

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This free close reading anchor chart is so helpful! Print it in color or black and white.

Guided reading questions for character, plot, making connections and reading strategies.

As I mentioned in my previous post , I’m trying to incorporate more nonfiction into my reading instruction because of the new C...

Reading strategies useful in every content area include Questioning the text, Visualization, and using Context Clues to infer meaning.

This post will walk you through each step for teaching a guided reading lesson. Also, find a guided reading freebie at the end. From reading strategies to word work activities, learn best practices for teaching children how to read. #guidedreading #literacy #readinggroups #kindergarten #firstgrade #learningtoread

Want to help your upper elementary students increase their reading comprehension? This post describes six key reading comprehension strategies to help you plan effective lessons focused on core reading skills. Fix-up strategies are also included to help students with comprehension difficulties. #3rdgradereadingcomprehension #4thgradereadingcomprehension #5thgradereadingcomprehension #upperelementaryreadingcomprehensionstrategies #upperelementaryreading

Colors and Kindergarten: Reading Skills This is a visual for how students work their way up the Reading Ladder. Kindergarten is working within the levels 1 and 2 throughout the year. When working with your child, please focus on these skills so that they have a solid reading foundation. Success is earned and needs to be worked for.

Visualizing the text is such an important reading strategy used for building your students’ reading comprehension. This reading teacher's blog post shares teaching tips, strategies, activities, and resources for teaching visualizing in your classroom (reading crafts, posters and graphic organizers). Helpful for second grade, third grade, fourth grade, and fifth grade teachers.

The best way for disfluent readers to become fluent is by reading! These students need to focus on ACCURATE text reading, use decodable text, repeated readings, systemic daily practice of reading words accurately, modeling of fluent reading and encouraging students to read like they are talking. Students need LOTS of opportunities to read text (at their level) using choral, cloze, echo and partner reading. These are great fluency strategies are for interventions. #fluency #fluencystrategies

For the past few months, I’ve been working with our third grade team on implementing one of the curriculum modules produced by Expeditionary Learning. By the way, if you’re looking for high quality, common core aligned curriculum for grades 3-8, these modules are awesome! We just finished up The Power of Reading and had a […]

Teaching #reading Comprehension Strategies: Asking Questions QAR Strategy - Raise the Bar Reading

Retelling stories is a skill that not all children possess naturally. Some like to retell every single detail, while others leave out important information to the story. That’s why using a retelling chart or organizer is helpful. When it was time for my Kindergartner and 1st grader to work on retelling this school year, I ... Read More about What’s the SCOOP? Retelling Chart

Borrow from the best! These teachers have created amazingly effective anchor charts for reading comprehension skills. You're going to love them all!

Woo-hoo! Are y'all enjoying summer vacation as much as I am??? Don't get me wrong, I love school, my students, and teaching but boy was I ready for a break. I haven't been up to much lately but I sure have been lovin' on my sweet, sweet boys and enjoying some extra time with the hubs. Oh yeah, and I attended a workshop on Common Core for English Language Arts. A bit overwhelmed but I'm sure I'll get it all sorted out soon. Anyways, since reading has been on the brain for my last two days, I…

Reading Comprehension Strategies Crafts: Hands on Activities for Teaching Reading Strategies - Raise the Bar Reading