Reading Comprehension Worksheets and Printables: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Holida...
abcteach features over 1,000 multi-page reading comprehension activities. These include biographies, history lessons, and introductions to important concepts in social studies, science, holidays, and more. Fictional stories are also available, providing students with fun and imaginative scenarios to explore.
Prompts for Reading Conferences/Groups
Teachers, here is a list of my favorite questions to ask during 1:1 reading conferences! Fiction ~ Generic Prompts What does the title mean?What is happening in the part you are reading now?Tell me about a strategy you used and how it helped you understand what was happening, or how it helped you understand a word.Would you recommend this book?
Literature Circle Models
After experimenting for many years, I discovered an approach that's easy, fun, and effective. I refer to it as Classroom Book Clubs because it's a more relaxed method of doing Literature Circles that doesn't involve roles. You can view a narrated slidecast to this model by scrolling down to the Classroom Book Clubs section. On this page you can also learn about different types of Literature Circles. I've had some success with all the models below, but all models haven't been successful with all groups of students.
Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Reading Comprehension Worksheets Focused Reading Passage Worksheets All the passages are aligned to curriculum standards to make them very easier to use.
Comprehension Strategies - Making connections, questioning, inferring, determining importance, and more
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, inferring, determining importance, and synthesizing.
Make and Play
Make New Animals Switch Zoo Online is the center of the site. You can visit nine different habitats and make new animals in each. While you play, you can read facts about each of the animals in your current combination.
Common Core
Common Core Math Kindergarten Counting & Cardinality Operations & Algebraic Thinking
Independent and Dependent Variables in an Experiment...Say what???
Do you ever teach a lesson, think it went awesomely, and then realize that not a single person in your room understands anything that was coming out of your mouth? Yeah...that is how our first science lesson went this year. Science is one of those subjects that is so very hit or miss with me. Sometimes, I think I do a spectacular job teaching and other times....not so much. The latter was the case with the first experiment we did this year.
