I jumped headfirst into using interactive notebooks this year, and I am loving it! My class is doing a great job of using their notes, keeping them neat and organized, and taking pride in them. I teach in a school with no textbooks so our interactive notebooks are becoming our textbooks. But, I did run into one snag using interactive notebooks. I had NOTHING to hang … [Read more...] about Interactive Hall Displays
Archives for September 2013
Give Them Choice with Reading Choice Boards
Happy Weekend! Tomorrow my sweet Brody turns 10. Yikes! He is getting so old! I wanted to pop in real fast to share some new resources that I created over the summer for reading and math. I don't know about your kids, but my kids LOVE choice! Even if it is all still the same kind of work and still the same skill, just something about being able to choose is so awesome to … [Read more...] about Give Them Choice with Reading Choice Boards
Teaching Main Idea of Nonfiction Text
By far, one of the hardest skills to teach is determining the main idea of a nonfiction text. Not only is determining main idea pretty difficult for some (or most depending on your class that year) students, it is also so critical for understanding nonfiction text. To make matters more complicated, so many other nonfiction skills are also dependent on understanding the … [Read more...] about Teaching Main Idea of Nonfiction Text
How to Embed Close Reading in a Reading Lesson
I am taking a small break from my family on this holiday weekend to write a quick blog post about how I used close reading this past week in my CCSS aligned reading mini lessons. This post contains an Amazon affiliate link if you decide you want to purchase the book mentioned in this post. I was teaching the standard RL.5.3: which involves comparing and contrasting … [Read more...] about How to Embed Close Reading in a Reading Lesson