Teaching plot to students is typically a fun first skill to work on with them! Teaching plot with picture books and short stories help students create mastery of the skill. Engaging them in their learning with interesting topics also helps! In this post, I am going to share my five favorite ways to review and…
Summarizing is one of the first skills that you should teach your readers when the school year begins. Being able to summarize what they read helps them with the ability to check for understanding, support with text evidence, and check if what they are reading is at a level that makes sense to them. Activities…
Third grade reading comprehension is the key component of third grade reading. In this series, we are covering all of the components of third grade reading. In previous posts, we have talked about fluency and teaching a new reading strategy or skill. Today, we are focusing on comprehension and how you help your students become…
In the new series, Components of Third Grade Reading, I am going to be talking about each part of teaching reading in the third (or fourth) grade classroom. One of the main components is third grade reading comprehension. Reading comprehension is an essential part of teaching reading because it is a skill that they need…
My students LOVE to talk about what they read. They LOVE to show their classmates their favorite books. They LOVE projects! Does this sound like your students?! This is why I started using book projects in my classroom. Basically, when my students finish a novel they get to complete a project showing what they read….
We spend so much time talking about reading skills. You hear it all the time… Who are the characters? Make an inference about that page. What is the theme of the story? How does the moral of the story apply to your real life? But do you know how to teach these skills to…
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