Use these FREE highlighter labels to help students keep organized and engaged while close reading! Also terrific for test prep for older grades. Each label has an I CAN statement to keep your good readers focused on the task at hand.
A guide of where your child should be in lettered reading programs. They always show this to you in conferences and then I can never remember the levels. fountas and pinnell
This is a handy chart to easily convert DRA, Guided Reading & AR Levels with Grade Level Equivalencies as well as reading development stages. ***the color coding is a system I used to label my books in first grade and found it especially handy when I was a reading specialist. I teach my student...
Free Reading Comprehension and Reading Fluency Trials For Teachers, Parents & Tutors
Kids engage with text on a whole new level as they read along with rock, jazz, blues and hip hop musicians to boost fluency. Each fluency video is followed by four levels of interactive questioning. Fun and effective reading centers or while group lessons created by a teacher to inspire a love for reading in his classroom! Free trials available on the link.
Leveled Text Bookmark Chart, good idea to have this for uncategorized books. ...... Follow for free 'too-neat-not-to-keep' teaching tools & other fun stuff :)
A LOOK AT LEXILES and Text Complexity While delivering PD yesterday, a teacher asked me, "What's a Lexile?" I wanted to say, "where have you been?" But the reality is--I commend her for not being afraid to ask what we think is such a basic question. We forget that some people have been so busy working in the trenches that they haven't been able to keep up. (They've been too busy administering tests, Student Learning Objective assessments, state exams and more.) So, listed below are the…
Teaching Students to Space Between Words - Make Take & Teach
One of the great benefits of my job is that I have the privilege of working with many skilled professionals from various disciplines. We have a dynamite staff of Occupational Therapists who are never short of ideas and suggestions. I recently had a discussion with one of our OTs, Lyzz, regarding letter reversals and handwriting […]
The term 'progress monitoring' has been floating around now more than even since the introduction of Response to Intervention (RTI). I attended a Title One Summer Institute three years ago (by @Beth Ware) who distinguished the difference between Progress Monitoring {big P, big M} and monitoring progress. Although the two may seem synonymous, Progress Monitoring is the formal intervention/documentation piece of the larger RTI puzzle where we assess students using CBM's (Curriculum Based…
6/20/2014 It's summer time! Time for teachers to kick back and relax by the pool, right? Haha! Well, hopefully you get some time to relax in the sun but we all know teachers never really take a break from school! We are always thinking ahead to next year and doing lots of planning and preparing. I have teamed up with several other teacher-authors to bring you this summer stock up linky where you can learn about some pretty cool products and grab tons of free teaching resources along the way…
6/20/2014 It's summer time! Time for teachers to kick back and relax by the pool, right? Haha! Well, hopefully you get some time to relax in the sun but we all know teachers never really take a break from school! We are always thinking ahead to next year and doing lots of planning and preparing. I have teamed up with several other teacher-authors to bring you this summer stock up linky where you can learn about some pretty cool products and grab tons of free teaching resources along the way…
