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READING ACTIVITIES
Top 10 Tips for Building Fluent Readers. Teaching Point of View. Fiction Comprehension. Activities for Teaching Informational Text Structures. Teaching Cause & Effect in Upper Elementary. Analyzing Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts. Amazon Listing Novel Project. Teaching Children to Compare and Contrast. Advanced Reading Comprehension Intervention. DIGITAL MATH PROJECTS Project-Based Learning in Google Classroom The following Math Projects include a digital component to make your 1:1 instruction more accessible! Place Value Detectives Long Division Math Project Drone Deliveries, Coordinate and Mapping Math Project Resort Report – A multi-digit multiplication project Addition and Subtraction Project for Upper Elementary Breaking Up the Bakery Fractions TEACHING VOLUME WITH HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES Teaching volume is one of my absolute favorite math units, and I can’t believe I have never written about it before! When I taught 5th grade math, volume always came later in the year when fatigue was starting to set in, so the more hands-on, inquiry-based volumeactivities I
PERIMETER AND AREA
The book is all about how a family has a big spaghetti dinner and has to figure out how to seat all of the people invited with only 2 chairs. They try several different arrangements in the hilarious story, and all along the way, we chart the seating arrangements and compare the area and perimeter. The kids all have 8 tiles (the amountof tables
END OF THE YEAR ACTIVITIES FOR UPPER ELEMENTARY Writing Activities. Memory Boo k Task Cards. I made these end of the year task cards years ago to use as our morning work during the last two weeks of school. Each day, students picked a new task card to use to create a memory project for the school year. Some cards took kids just one day to complete whereas others spent a good chunk of time ontheir task.
ICE BREAKERS FOR SOCIAL DISTANCING AND VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS Ice Breakers for Social Distancing or the Virtual Classroom. 1. Hello, My Name Is . . . This is a fun game to play with your students in order to help them learn the names and some fun facts about their classmates. The idea is to use this game every day THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO TEACHING PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES The Complete Guide to Teaching Prefixes and Suffixes. Once students reach upper elementary, they have a lot of decoding strategies in their reading toolbox. At this point, many students have mastered decoding and have many tools in their decoding toolbox. As texts become more complex, introducing new vocabulary skills is crucial totheir success.
TITANIC LESSONS, EXPERIMENTS, ACTIVITIES, AND MORE After all, it's the part they know the most about and are most interested in. This watertight bulkhead Titanic experiment is hands-down my favorite experiment. You will need lots and lots of 2 liter bottles (3 per group) and large tupperwares, sinks, or fish ERROR ANALYSIS FOR ENRICHMENT AND CRITICAL THINKING This year, working with a wide variety of students, many needing either extra help or extra enrichment and extensions, I have been doing a lot of reading about all different levels of need. HOMEPAGE - TEACHING WITH A MOUNTAIN VIEWBLOGCONTACTFREEBIE LIBRARYMATH PROJECTSPEEK OF THE WEEKDISCLOSURES & PRIVACY POLICY My goal through Teaching With a Mountain View is to share ideas that enrich your content, engage your learners, and inspire your teaching. I hold an English and Elementary Education degree as well as a graduate degree in Curriculum and Instruction with an endorsement in Gifted and Talented Education. I have taught 3-5th grades, been anREADING ACTIVITIES
Top 10 Tips for Building Fluent Readers. Teaching Point of View. Fiction Comprehension. Activities for Teaching Informational Text Structures. Teaching Cause & Effect in Upper Elementary. Analyzing Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts. Amazon Listing Novel Project. Teaching Children to Compare and Contrast. Advanced Reading Comprehension Intervention. DIGITAL MATH PROJECTS Project-Based Learning in Google Classroom The following Math Projects include a digital component to make your 1:1 instruction more accessible! Place Value Detectives Long Division Math Project Drone Deliveries, Coordinate and Mapping Math Project Resort Report – A multi-digit multiplication project Addition and Subtraction Project for Upper Elementary Breaking Up the Bakery Fractions TEACHING VOLUME WITH HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES Teaching volume is one of my absolute favorite math units, and I can’t believe I have never written about it before! When I taught 5th grade math, volume always came later in the year when fatigue was starting to set in, so the more hands-on, inquiry-based volumeactivities I
PERIMETER AND AREA
The book is all about how a family has a big spaghetti dinner and has to figure out how to seat all of the people invited with only 2 chairs. They try several different arrangements in the hilarious story, and all along the way, we chart the seating arrangements and compare the area and perimeter. The kids all have 8 tiles (the amountof tables
END OF THE YEAR ACTIVITIES FOR UPPER ELEMENTARY Writing Activities. Memory Boo k Task Cards. I made these end of the year task cards years ago to use as our morning work during the last two weeks of school. Each day, students picked a new task card to use to create a memory project for the school year. Some cards took kids just one day to complete whereas others spent a good chunk of time ontheir task.
ICE BREAKERS FOR SOCIAL DISTANCING AND VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS Ice Breakers for Social Distancing or the Virtual Classroom. 1. Hello, My Name Is . . . This is a fun game to play with your students in order to help them learn the names and some fun facts about their classmates. The idea is to use this game every day THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO TEACHING PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES The Complete Guide to Teaching Prefixes and Suffixes. Once students reach upper elementary, they have a lot of decoding strategies in their reading toolbox. At this point, many students have mastered decoding and have many tools in their decoding toolbox. As texts become more complex, introducing new vocabulary skills is crucial totheir success.
TITANIC LESSONS, EXPERIMENTS, ACTIVITIES, AND MORE After all, it's the part they know the most about and are most interested in. This watertight bulkhead Titanic experiment is hands-down my favorite experiment. You will need lots and lots of 2 liter bottles (3 per group) and large tupperwares, sinks, or fish ERROR ANALYSIS FOR ENRICHMENT AND CRITICAL THINKING This year, working with a wide variety of students, many needing either extra help or extra enrichment and extensions, I have been doing a lot of reading about all different levels of need. BLOG - TEACHING WITH A MOUNTAIN VIEW Last Day of Teacher Appreciation Week Giveaways! I hope you have been feeling alllllll the love this week, teacher friends! For our last day of teacher appreciation week, I'm DIGITAL MATH PROJECTS Project-Based Learning in Google Classroom The following Math Projects include a digital component to make your 1:1 instruction more accessible! Place Value Detectives Long Division Math Project Drone Deliveries, Coordinate and Mapping Math Project Resort Report – A multi-digit multiplication project Addition and Subtraction Project for Upper Elementary Breaking Up the Bakery Fractions FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL LESSON PLANS Enter your email address to gain access to my FULL First Week of School Lesson Plans, Free Task Cards, and Minute To Win it Game! VISUALIZING & A FREEBIE Visualizing is one of those reading strategies/skills that isn't ever specifically mentioned in the Common Core Standards, but it is a critical reading comprehension strategy for kids in K-5. I browsed Pinterest for some Visualizing anchor charts and decided I didn't need to recreate my own when there were so many great ones out there (andlet
TIPS FOR TEACHING MULTIPLICATION FACTS General Tips for Multiplication Fact Memorization. Remember that memorizing the facts in number order (1,2,3s, etc.) isn't necessarily the easiest or best way. Have students memorize the easiest facts and the facts that they can build upon first. There are several sequences out there, but I typically teach multiplication facts and strategiesin
TEACHING PRECISE MATH VOCABULARY A few years ago, I was heavily pregnant, and my students were scheduled to go on a field trip three hours away from the school. Since I was so close to my due date (and we all know how school buses are), we decided it would be best if the interventionist and I swappedduties for the day.
COMPARING TEXTS: MOVING BEYOND THE BASICS Comparing Texts: Moving Beyond the Basics. It’s true. Comparing texts can be tedious, especially when you are teaching students in grades 3-5 how to thoughtfully compare and contrast multiple texts! Of course, it’s a must-teach skill because comparing texts helps increase understanding for students, increases critical thinkingskills, and
ELAPSED TIME AMAZING RACE Creating the game. One of my main goals as we were working on this game, which came at the very end of our elapsed time unit, was to help them become more comfortable with multi-step elapsed time problems. Every single continent had a multi-step USING PICTURES TO TEACH READING AND WRITING SKILLS For years, I have witnessed, over and over again, the value of using pictures to teach reading skills in my classroom. I always use them to introduce reading skills like inference, story elements, cause and effect, compare and contrast, etc. END OF THE YEAR 3 WORDS ACTIVITY End of the Year 3 Words Activity. I wanted to share a little activity our school does at the end of each year– as a class, we all watch one of Good Morning America's 3 Words Videos (I always screen them and make sure I find an appropriate one for the kids to watch). Here is a funny one that always makes the kids smile (and it's funny HOMEPAGE - TEACHING WITH A MOUNTAIN VIEWBLOGCONTACTFREEBIE LIBRARYMATH PROJECTSDISCLOSURES & PRIVACY POLICY I'm Mary, and I'm so glad you are here. I am passionate about collaborating with educators around the globe, and Teaching with a Mountain View allows me to do just that! BLOG - TEACHING WITH A MOUNTAIN VIEW When I’m looking for rigorous practice that’s so fun the students almost forget they’re learning, I turn to math projects! These projects hold so much learning power with their real-world TEACHING VOLUME WITH HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES Teaching volume is one of my absolute favorite math units, and I can’t believe I have never written about it before! When I taught 5th grade math, volume always came later in the year when fatigue was starting to set in, so the more hands-on, inquiry-based volumeactivities I
DIGITAL MATH PROJECTS Project-Based Learning in Google Classroom The following Math Projects include a digital component to make your 1:1 instruction more accessible! Place Value Detectives Long Division Math Project Drone Deliveries, Coordinate and Mapping Math Project Resort Report – A multi-digit multiplication project Addition and Subtraction Project for Upper Elementary Breaking Up the Bakery FractionsREADING ACTIVITIES
Reading Activities. Here you will find all of my posts about reading in one place! From reading anchor charts, activities, task cards, to novel projects, you can reference my reading blog posts in one easyplace!
END OF THE YEAR ACTIVITIES FOR UPPER ELEMENTARY Writing Activities. Memory Boo k Task Cards. I made these end of the year task cards years ago to use as our morning work during the last two weeks of school. Each day, students picked a new task card to use to create a memory project for the school year. Some cards took kids just one day to complete whereas others spent a good chunk of time ontheir task.
HOMEPAGE - TEACHING WITH A MOUNTAIN VIEWBLOGCONTACTFREEBIE LIBRARYMATH PROJECTSDISCLOSURES & PRIVACY POLICY I'm Mary, and I'm so glad you are here. I am passionate about collaborating with educators around the globe, and Teaching with a Mountain View allows me to do just that! BLOG - TEACHING WITH A MOUNTAIN VIEW When I’m looking for rigorous practice that’s so fun the students almost forget they’re learning, I turn to math projects! These projects hold so much learning power with their real-world TEACHING VOLUME WITH HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES Teaching volume is one of my absolute favorite math units, and I can’t believe I have never written about it before! When I taught 5th grade math, volume always came later in the year when fatigue was starting to set in, so the more hands-on, inquiry-based volumeactivities I
DIGITAL MATH PROJECTS Project-Based Learning in Google Classroom The following Math Projects include a digital component to make your 1:1 instruction more accessible! Place Value Detectives Long Division Math Project Drone Deliveries, Coordinate and Mapping Math Project Resort Report – A multi-digit multiplication project Addition and Subtraction Project for Upper Elementary Breaking Up the Bakery FractionsREADING ACTIVITIES
Reading Activities. Here you will find all of my posts about reading in one place! From reading anchor charts, activities, task cards, to novel projects, you can reference my reading blog posts in one easyplace!
END OF THE YEAR ACTIVITIES FOR UPPER ELEMENTARY Writing Activities. Memory Boo k Task Cards. I made these end of the year task cards years ago to use as our morning work during the last two weeks of school. Each day, students picked a new task card to use to create a memory project for the school year. Some cards took kids just one day to complete whereas others spent a good chunk of time ontheir task.
BLOG - TEACHING WITH A MOUNTAIN VIEW When I’m looking for rigorous practice that’s so fun the students almost forget they’re learning, I turn to math projects! These projects hold so much learning power with their real-world DIGITAL MATH PROJECTS Project-Based Learning in Google Classroom The following Math Projects include a digital component to make your 1:1 instruction more accessible! Place Value Detectives Long Division Math Project Drone Deliveries, Coordinate and Mapping Math Project Resort Report – A multi-digit multiplication project Addition and Subtraction Project for Upper Elementary Breaking Up the Bakery Fractions VISUALIZING & A FREEBIE In one of my intervention groups, we are working on the skill of visualizing as a reading strategy. These are 3rd and 4th graders that I'm working with, so at this point, they are reading more advanced text and focusing so much on the reading that they are putting less effort into comprehension. TEACHING ORAL READING FLUENCY One of the top questions I get is always about how I run my math and reading rotations. As I prepare to share those formats with you, I'llbe sharing some
LINE PLOT ACTIVITIES AND RESOURCES Line Plots. When I even think of the words, I shudder. It's one of the trickiest concepts for students. What do those Xs mean? The numbers onthe bottom?
TIPS FOR TEACHING MULTIPLICATION FACTS Multiplication Facts. They are the backbone of so many skills beyond third grade, and yet, students continue to struggle with them well into 4th and 5th grade. ELAPSED TIME AMAZING RACE Can you tell we have been hard at work mastering our elapsed time skills? Having kids play a version of Amazing Race, is a great option. TEACHING PRECISE MATH VOCABULARY A few years ago, I was heavily pregnant, and my students were scheduled to go on a field trip three hours away from the school. Since I was so close to my due date (and we all know how school buses are), we decided it would be best if the interventionist and I swappedduties for the day.
SKITTLES MATH!
Over the years, I have found dozens of ways to use Skittles to reinforce math concepts. Here are some fun skittles math activities. TEACHING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LITERAL AND INFERENTIAL Teaching students the difference between literal and inferential thinking is one of my must-do lessons at the beginning of every singleschool year.
HOMEPAGE - TEACHING WITH A MOUNTAIN VIEWBLOGCONTACTFREEBIE LIBRARYMATH PROJECTSDISCLOSURES & PRIVACY POLICY My goal through Teaching With a Mountain View is to share ideas that enrich your content, engage your learners, and inspire your teaching. I hold an English and Elementary Education degree as well as a graduate degree in Curriculum and Instruction with an endorsement in Gifted and Talented Education. I have taught 3-5th grades, been anREADING ACTIVITIES
Top 10 Tips for Building Fluent Readers. Teaching Point of View. Fiction Comprehension. Activities for Teaching Informational Text Structures. Teaching Cause & Effect in Upper Elementary. Analyzing Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts. Amazon Listing Novel Project. Teaching Children to Compare and Contrast. Advanced Reading Comprehension Intervention.PERIMETER AND AREA
The book is all about how a family has a big spaghetti dinner and has to figure out how to seat all of the people invited with only 2 chairs. They try several different arrangements in the hilarious story, and all along the way, we chart the seating arrangements and compare the area and perimeter. The kids all have 8 tiles (the amountof tables
TEACHING VOLUME WITH HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES Teaching volume is one of my absolute favorite math units, and I can’t believe I have never written about it before! When I taught 5th grade math, volume always came later in the year when fatigue was starting to set in, so the more hands-on, inquiry-based volumeactivities I
VISUALIZING & A FREEBIE Visualizing is one of those reading strategies/skills that isn't ever specifically mentioned in the Common Core Standards, but it is a critical reading comprehension strategy for kids in K-5. I browsed Pinterest for some Visualizing anchor charts and decided I didn't need to recreate my own when there were so many great ones out there (andlet
FRACTIONS AND DECIMALS PROJECT Differentiating the Fractions and Decimals Project. The questions and data are different for all of the sections. Therefore, I was able to differentiate a bit. My group that needed the most challenge got the FOOD section. The group that would need the most support worked through the NATIONALITIES section. The other two sections aresomewhere in
END OF THE YEAR ACTIVITIES FOR UPPER ELEMENTARY Writing Activities. Memory Boo k Task Cards. I made these end of the year task cards years ago to use as our morning work during the last two weeks of school. Each day, students picked a new task card to use to create a memory project for the school year. Some cards took kids just one day to complete whereas others spent a good chunk of time ontheir task.
ICE BREAKERS FOR SOCIAL DISTANCING AND VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS Ice Breakers for Social Distancing or the Virtual Classroom. 1. Hello, My Name Is . . . This is a fun game to play with your students in order to help them learn the names and some fun facts about their classmates. The idea is to use this game every day THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO TEACHING PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES The Complete Guide to Teaching Prefixes and Suffixes. Once students reach upper elementary, they have a lot of decoding strategies in their reading toolbox. At this point, many students have mastered decoding and have many tools in their decoding toolbox. As texts become more complex, introducing new vocabulary skills is crucial totheir success.
TEACHING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LITERAL AND INFERENTIAL Teaching students the difference between literal and inferential thinking is one of my must-do lessons at the beginning of every single school year. No matter which elementary grade I'm teaching. I have talked about this so many times. So, I wanted to put all of these inference anchor charts in ONE PLACE for easy access! HOMEPAGE - TEACHING WITH A MOUNTAIN VIEWBLOGCONTACTFREEBIE LIBRARYMATH PROJECTSDISCLOSURES & PRIVACY POLICY My goal through Teaching With a Mountain View is to share ideas that enrich your content, engage your learners, and inspire your teaching. I hold an English and Elementary Education degree as well as a graduate degree in Curriculum and Instruction with an endorsement in Gifted and Talented Education. I have taught 3-5th grades, been anREADING ACTIVITIES
Top 10 Tips for Building Fluent Readers. Teaching Point of View. Fiction Comprehension. Activities for Teaching Informational Text Structures. Teaching Cause & Effect in Upper Elementary. Analyzing Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts. Amazon Listing Novel Project. Teaching Children to Compare and Contrast. Advanced Reading Comprehension Intervention.PERIMETER AND AREA
The book is all about how a family has a big spaghetti dinner and has to figure out how to seat all of the people invited with only 2 chairs. They try several different arrangements in the hilarious story, and all along the way, we chart the seating arrangements and compare the area and perimeter. The kids all have 8 tiles (the amountof tables
TEACHING VOLUME WITH HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES Teaching volume is one of my absolute favorite math units, and I can’t believe I have never written about it before! When I taught 5th grade math, volume always came later in the year when fatigue was starting to set in, so the more hands-on, inquiry-based volumeactivities I
VISUALIZING & A FREEBIE Visualizing is one of those reading strategies/skills that isn't ever specifically mentioned in the Common Core Standards, but it is a critical reading comprehension strategy for kids in K-5. I browsed Pinterest for some Visualizing anchor charts and decided I didn't need to recreate my own when there were so many great ones out there (andlet
FRACTIONS AND DECIMALS PROJECT Differentiating the Fractions and Decimals Project. The questions and data are different for all of the sections. Therefore, I was able to differentiate a bit. My group that needed the most challenge got the FOOD section. The group that would need the most support worked through the NATIONALITIES section. The other two sections aresomewhere in
END OF THE YEAR ACTIVITIES FOR UPPER ELEMENTARY Writing Activities. Memory Boo k Task Cards. I made these end of the year task cards years ago to use as our morning work during the last two weeks of school. Each day, students picked a new task card to use to create a memory project for the school year. Some cards took kids just one day to complete whereas others spent a good chunk of time ontheir task.
ICE BREAKERS FOR SOCIAL DISTANCING AND VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS Ice Breakers for Social Distancing or the Virtual Classroom. 1. Hello, My Name Is . . . This is a fun game to play with your students in order to help them learn the names and some fun facts about their classmates. The idea is to use this game every day THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO TEACHING PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES The Complete Guide to Teaching Prefixes and Suffixes. Once students reach upper elementary, they have a lot of decoding strategies in their reading toolbox. At this point, many students have mastered decoding and have many tools in their decoding toolbox. As texts become more complex, introducing new vocabulary skills is crucial totheir success.
TEACHING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LITERAL AND INFERENTIAL Teaching students the difference between literal and inferential thinking is one of my must-do lessons at the beginning of every single school year. No matter which elementary grade I'm teaching. I have talked about this so many times. So, I wanted to put all of these inference anchor charts in ONE PLACE for easy access!READING ACTIVITIES
Top 10 Tips for Building Fluent Readers. Teaching Point of View. Fiction Comprehension. Activities for Teaching Informational Text Structures. Teaching Cause & Effect in Upper Elementary. Analyzing Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts. Amazon Listing Novel Project. Teaching Children to Compare and Contrast. Advanced Reading Comprehension Intervention. BLOG - TEACHING WITH A MOUNTAIN VIEW Last Day of Teacher Appreciation Week Giveaways! I hope you have been feeling alllllll the love this week, teacher friends! For our last day of teacher appreciation week, I'm TEACHING POINT OF VIEW It follows four different individuals during their day at the park. There is the grouchy lady, the shy and lonely young boy, the happy girl, and the sad man. They each share their perspective of their time at the park– all of which, of course, are very different. It is a quick read, but so rich in detail. TIPS FOR TEACHING MULTIPLICATION FACTS General Tips for Multiplication Fact Memorization. Remember that memorizing the facts in number order (1,2,3s, etc.) isn't necessarily the easiest or best way. Have students memorize the easiest facts and the facts that they can build upon first. There are several sequences out there, but I typically teach multiplication facts and strategiesin
LINE PLOT ACTIVITIES AND RESOURCES Using Money. Money can be applied to so many things. I created this little lemonade stand activity for students to begin working with line plots. They each get a bag of coins (if you want to use whole numbers, you could throw some dollar bills in, too) and sort them out. They create a “line plot” using the money, then transfer it into a FRACTIONS IN THE REAL WORLD FREEBIE Get your Fractions In The Real World project NOW! Enter your email address below, and I'll send the Fractions In The Real World task cards straight to your inbox. When you enter your email address, you will begin to receive periodic emails from me. No spam. EVER. We highly recommend using a personal email address as some district emailfilters
INFORMATIONAL TEXT STRUCTURES We discussed the etymology of the word “Structure” and that helped the students understand that Informational Text Structure is the way in which an author builds a paragraph or article of information. I created an anchor chart while they made their foldable. ADDED: Here is a picture of how our foldable ended up looking for the 2015-2016 COMPARING TEXTS: MOVING BEYOND THE BASICS Comparing Texts: Moving Beyond the Basics. It’s true. Comparing texts can be tedious, especially when you are teaching students in grades 3-5 how to thoughtfully compare and contrast multiple texts! Of course, it’s a must-teach skill because comparing texts helps increase understanding for students, increases critical thinkingskills, and
ELAPSED TIME AMAZING RACE Creating the game. One of my main goals as we were working on this game, which came at the very end of our elapsed time unit, was to help them become more comfortable with multi-step elapsed time problems. Every single continent had a multi-step END OF THE YEAR 3 WORDS ACTIVITY End of the Year 3 Words Activity. I wanted to share a little activity our school does at the end of each year– as a class, we all watch one of Good Morning America's 3 Words Videos (I always screen them and make sure I find an appropriate one for the kids to watch). Here is a funny one that always makes the kids smile (and it's funny HOMEPAGE - TEACHING WITH A MOUNTAIN VIEWBLOGCONTACTFREEBIE LIBRARYMATH PROJECTSDISCLOSURES & PRIVACY POLICY My goal through Teaching With a Mountain View is to share ideas that enrich your content, engage your learners, and inspire your teaching. I hold an English and Elementary Education degree as well as a graduate degree in Curriculum and Instruction with an endorsement in Gifted and Talented Education. I have taught 3-5th grades, been an BLOG - TEACHING WITH A MOUNTAIN VIEW Last Day of Teacher Appreciation Week Giveaways! I hope you have been feeling alllllll the love this week, teacher friends! For our last day of teacher appreciation week, I'mREADING ACTIVITIES
Top 10 Tips for Building Fluent Readers. Teaching Point of View. Fiction Comprehension. Activities for Teaching Informational Text Structures. Teaching Cause & Effect in Upper Elementary. Analyzing Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts. Amazon Listing Novel Project. Teaching Children to Compare and Contrast. Advanced Reading Comprehension Intervention. TEACHING VOLUME WITH HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES Teaching volume is one of my absolute favorite math units, and I can’t believe I have never written about it before! When I taught 5th grade math, volume always came later in the year when fatigue was starting to set in, so the more hands-on, inquiry-based volumeactivities I
VISUALIZING & A FREEBIE Visualizing is one of those reading strategies/skills that isn't ever specifically mentioned in the Common Core Standards, but it is a critical reading comprehension strategy for kids in K-5. I browsed Pinterest for some Visualizing anchor charts and decided I didn't need to recreate my own when there were so many great ones out there (andlet
ICE BREAKERS FOR SOCIAL DISTANCING AND VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS Ice Breakers for Social Distancing or the Virtual Classroom. 1. Hello, My Name Is . . . This is a fun game to play with your students in order to help them learn the names and some fun facts about their classmates. The idea is to use this game every day END OF THE YEAR ACTIVITIES FOR UPPER ELEMENTARY Writing Activities. Memory Boo k Task Cards. I made these end of the year task cards years ago to use as our morning work during the last two weeks of school. Each day, students picked a new task card to use to create a memory project for the school year. Some cards took kids just one day to complete whereas others spent a good chunk of time ontheir task.
USING PICTURES TO TEACH READING AND WRITING SKILLS This new Using Pictures to Teach Parts of Speech set includes a review of nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, and prepositions. It is one of my favorite creations to date and can span the entire year! You can purchase this resource HERE. Post Views: 1,090. TITANIC LESSONS, EXPERIMENTS, ACTIVITIES, AND MORE After all, it's the part they know the most about and are most interested in. This watertight bulkhead Titanic experiment is hands-down my favorite experiment. You will need lots and lots of 2 liter bottles (3 per group) and large tupperwares, sinks, or fish AN AMAZON LISTING CUMULATIVE NOVEL PROJECT! So, the Amazon.com Listing Cumulative Novel Project was born! Before I introduced the project to the students, I pulled up an Amazon listing page for a book we had previously read. We talked about all the elements that it included and what stuck out to us. Then, we read a few of the reviews that people had written, as well as the formal HOMEPAGE - TEACHING WITH A MOUNTAIN VIEWBLOGCONTACTFREEBIE LIBRARYMATH PROJECTSDISCLOSURES & PRIVACY POLICY My goal through Teaching With a Mountain View is to share ideas that enrich your content, engage your learners, and inspire your teaching. I hold an English and Elementary Education degree as well as a graduate degree in Curriculum and Instruction with an endorsement in Gifted and Talented Education. I have taught 3-5th grades, been an BLOG - TEACHING WITH A MOUNTAIN VIEW Last Day of Teacher Appreciation Week Giveaways! I hope you have been feeling alllllll the love this week, teacher friends! For our last day of teacher appreciation week, I'mREADING ACTIVITIES
Top 10 Tips for Building Fluent Readers. Teaching Point of View. Fiction Comprehension. Activities for Teaching Informational Text Structures. Teaching Cause & Effect in Upper Elementary. Analyzing Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts. Amazon Listing Novel Project. Teaching Children to Compare and Contrast. Advanced Reading Comprehension Intervention. TEACHING VOLUME WITH HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES Teaching volume is one of my absolute favorite math units, and I can’t believe I have never written about it before! When I taught 5th grade math, volume always came later in the year when fatigue was starting to set in, so the more hands-on, inquiry-based volumeactivities I
VISUALIZING & A FREEBIE Visualizing is one of those reading strategies/skills that isn't ever specifically mentioned in the Common Core Standards, but it is a critical reading comprehension strategy for kids in K-5. I browsed Pinterest for some Visualizing anchor charts and decided I didn't need to recreate my own when there were so many great ones out there (andlet
ICE BREAKERS FOR SOCIAL DISTANCING AND VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS Ice Breakers for Social Distancing or the Virtual Classroom. 1. Hello, My Name Is . . . This is a fun game to play with your students in order to help them learn the names and some fun facts about their classmates. The idea is to use this game every day END OF THE YEAR ACTIVITIES FOR UPPER ELEMENTARY Writing Activities. Memory Boo k Task Cards. I made these end of the year task cards years ago to use as our morning work during the last two weeks of school. Each day, students picked a new task card to use to create a memory project for the school year. Some cards took kids just one day to complete whereas others spent a good chunk of time ontheir task.
USING PICTURES TO TEACH READING AND WRITING SKILLS This new Using Pictures to Teach Parts of Speech set includes a review of nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, and prepositions. It is one of my favorite creations to date and can span the entire year! You can purchase this resource HERE. Post Views: 1,090. TITANIC LESSONS, EXPERIMENTS, ACTIVITIES, AND MORE After all, it's the part they know the most about and are most interested in. This watertight bulkhead Titanic experiment is hands-down my favorite experiment. You will need lots and lots of 2 liter bottles (3 per group) and large tupperwares, sinks, or fish AN AMAZON LISTING CUMULATIVE NOVEL PROJECT! So, the Amazon.com Listing Cumulative Novel Project was born! Before I introduced the project to the students, I pulled up an Amazon listing page for a book we had previously read. We talked about all the elements that it included and what stuck out to us. Then, we read a few of the reviews that people had written, as well as the formal DIGITAL MATH PROJECTS Project-Based Learning in Google Classroom The following Math Projects include a digital component to make your 1:1 instruction more accessible! Place Value Detectives Long Division Math Project Drone Deliveries, Coordinate and Mapping Math Project Resort Report – A multi-digit multiplication project Addition and Subtraction Project for Upper Elementary Breaking Up the Bakery FractionsPERIMETER AND AREA
The book is all about how a family has a big spaghetti dinner and has to figure out how to seat all of the people invited with only 2 chairs. They try several different arrangements in the hilarious story, and all along the way, we chart the seating arrangements and compare the area and perimeter. The kids all have 8 tiles (the amountof tables
TIPS FOR TEACHING MULTIPLICATION FACTS General Tips for Multiplication Fact Memorization. Remember that memorizing the facts in number order (1,2,3s, etc.) isn't necessarily the easiest or best way. Have students memorize the easiest facts and the facts that they can build upon first. There are several sequences out there, but I typically teach multiplication facts and strategiesin
FRACTIONS AND DECIMALS PROJECT Differentiating the Fractions and Decimals Project. The questions and data are different for all of the sections. Therefore, I was able to differentiate a bit. My group that needed the most challenge got the FOOD section. The group that would need the most support worked through the NATIONALITIES section. The other two sections aresomewhere in
TEACHING ORAL READING FLUENCY Day 1: Accuracy. On this day, we focus on reading accurately as a component of fluency. I define that for them as: If I'm reading accurately, I don't eliminate words, word endings, or word beginnings. I don't add words that don't belong. In other words, fluent readers don't make very many mistakes when they are reading. LINE PLOT ACTIVITIES AND RESOURCES Using Money. Money can be applied to so many things. I created this little lemonade stand activity for students to begin working with line plots. They each get a bag of coins (if you want to use whole numbers, you could throw some dollar bills in, too) and sort them out. They create a “line plot” using the money, then transfer it into aSKITTLES MATH!
Skittles Circle Graphs. Circle graphs can be SO hard to create and understand, but when you add in Skittles, kids just really seem to get it! The lesson shown above is actually related to multiple intelligences. The kids have to do a multiple intelligences quiz to find out their strengths. They earn points for each of the differentstrengths
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GROUPS Acronym. The first year I began teaching, one of my teammates shared with me this fantastic acronym for GROUPS. I thought I would post it and share it with you all. I have always had it hanging in my room, and have created small versions to hand out to students before they begin group work. Some kiddos even get to have one taped onto PERCENTS, DECIMALS, FRACTIONS AND A FREEBIE! Percents, Decimals, Fractions and a Freebie! Before we left for wonderful winter break (and, oh, how wonderful it was), we spent a week focusing on percentages along with converting decimals, fractions, and percents. Percents seems to be one of those things that students have long heard of and had interest in, but never really beentaught.
ELAPSED TIME AMAZING RACE Creating the game. One of my main goals as we were working on this game, which came at the very end of our elapsed time unit, was to help them become more comfortable with multi-step elapsed time problems. Every single continent had a multi-stepWEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2019 TEACHING STUDENTS TO USE OBSERVATIONS TO INFER If you've ever tried to teach students the concept of making inferences, you know this is never a simple task! That's why I have always taught my students how to tell the difference between literal and inferential questions and observations. I've written extensively about this in the past, but I have a new inference anchor chart and free lesson for you if you are just getting started, or if your students need more practice with this! Inference Anchor Chart You may remember THIS
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about how I teach my students the difference between literal and inferential observations or THIS post that dives into using pictures to teach. This is not a one and done skill! I find a way to reinforce inference ALL YEAR LONG. This lesson and anchor chart are similar concepts to those I've shared before, but it scaffolds it even more for students who need more explicit instruction. It's also a great way to introduce those two lessons because it even more explicitly teaches inference thanthose do!
The inference anchor chart above really speaks for itself. I start by explaining to my students that our literal observations (what's right there) help us make inferences. Then, we use the green sticky notes to brainstorm as many literal observations as we can about the picture. After that, we discuss as a group some inferences we can make based on those literal observations. Soon, students realize that they are actually inferring ALL the time! It's a great lightbulb moment. It's also great for them to see that you can infer multiple conclusions from the same observation (and that not all inferences are right all the time). I also made a free inference printable for you to use with your students to reinforce this skill. You can download it (which also includes the picture I used in our anchor chart) for free HERE.
Inference Activity
Then, we use one of my LITERAL AND INFERENTIAL TEXT TASK CARDSas
a whole group to apply this skill to text. We color code our answers again so that they can see how we must use our observations in order to make an inference. I hope that gives you one more idea about how you can use pictures to teach inference, especially to students who don't understand the concept the first time around. Be sure to reference those two posts I mentioned above so that you know where to go AFTER this!Please Follow Me!
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2019 MAIN IDEA VS. THEME WITH SONG LYRICS Hands down, one of my most popular posts is teaching about Main Ideavs. Theme
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Ever since I started teaching the concepts together (in the upper grades), it has completely changed how my students think about and generate their main idea and theme statements. Now, I have one more FREE theme and main idea activity to add to your repertoire that is a perfect whole group or small group addition to my main idea vs. themetask cards
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I have posted before about how I adore using song lyrics to teach specific reading skills. Cause and Effect is definitely one of my favorites to teach with song lyrics, because who can resist that song!? However, there are so many songs that lend themselves so, so well to teaching main idea and theme. If you aren't teaching both at the same time, you can absolutely still use the songs and the ideas here. Just leave out the other skill! I also wanted to create something that would take things a step further than just simply identifying the main idea and theme of a song or story. As I was thinking of the perfect songs to use for this, I decided to make it a sort of "Paired Passages" activity by comparing the themes and main ideas in two songs. Instead of just identifying the theme and main idea, they are actively drawing comparisons and contrasting the main idea and themes as well. This is a very easy prep activity. You can get the FREE printables below, so all you need to do is print them out and find the accompanying videos on YouTube. All of the songs I have chosen are from significant moments from popular children's films, so they are all readily accessible and appropriate to watch. Many kids will have seen or at least know the premise of the movies, which is also helpful in doing some more inferring of the themes and main ideas! I have included multiple activities here and multiple opportunities for students to compare the main idea and theme of different songs that go well together. Choose which you'd set of paired passages you'd like to start with. I like using "Something There" and "I See the Light" to start because the themes are quite evident and the parallels are easy to find. Using "Baby Mine" and "Out There" is a great nextstep.
I start out by showing the videos for the two songs. I make sure they have a copy of the lyrics in front of them to take any notes (such as speaker/character changes) as they watch. Then we walk through the lyrics step by step, almost like we are completing a close read. This is a bit different, though, because we are really taking note of character actions and how all of the lines fit together to form the main idea and/or theme. Remember that all of these notes are always taken as discussions occur with students, so some may be written in shorthand. It's so interesting to see the lightbulb moments students have when they are analyzing song lyrics. So often they listen to this music and even memorize the words without realizing what a beautifully woven story the lyrics are telling! After we have thoroughly analyzed the songs themselves (be sure to incorporate any other reading skills you have already reviewed!) we move into the task of analyzing the main idea and theme. Here's an example of one completed page. Be sure to reference the notes you took as you did a close read... often your students will have already determined the main idea and theme throughout their notes. That's it! The whole lesson takes around 30 minutes, and it's so meaningful for students. I often have students bring in their own songs to analyze, too! If you'd like to do this lesson with your students, you can sign up for the free download below. Remember to use a personal email address, as some school addresses can block the email. Teach Main Idea and Theme with Song Lyrics! Send me the printables Using a personal email address will help ensure that you will immediately receive your free download. You'll be joining tens of thousands of teachers receiving tips, freebies, and ideas from me. You can unsubscribe at any time.Please Follow Me!
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 2019 TEACHING ORAL READING FLUENCY One of the top questions I get is always about how I run my math and reading rotations. As I prepare to share those formats with you, I'll be sharing some of the components of them individually as well. Today's topic is oral reading fluency, which is one of the very first "reading skills" I teach at the beginning of the year! First, a little bit of background about why I insist on including oral reading fluency instruction in ALL of my elementary classrooms. Oral reading fluency is _always_ one of my reading rotations because I so strongly believe in the importance of building fluent readers who have developed the ability to READ ACCURATELY, at a NATURAL PACE, and with EXCELLENT PROSODY/EXPRESSION. Research shows that reading fluency is a direct indicator of comprehension success. In other words, when students can read fluently, they are significantly more likely to understand what they are reading. Multi-tasking is tough for even the most skilled readers. Building reading fluency and freeing students from the task of decoding allows them to build automaticity. This automaticity (fluency) allows readers to focus on the actual act of reading and enables them to put their energy and focus into understanding and synthesizing the text. WE HAVE TO PLACE A FOCUS ON BUILDING FLUENT READERS IF WE WANT TO BUILD EFFICIENT READERS WHO COMPREHEND WHAT THEYARE READING.
Fluency, then, simply has to be front and center in our reading instruction. Not just in 2nd grade, not just in 3rd grade, but in 4th and 5th grade, too. The words and complexity of texts they are expected to read fluently in 2nd grade are wildly different than those in 4th and 5th grade. We can't stop practicing! IT'S OUR OBLIGATION TO SOLIDIFY THESE ESSENTIAL READING SKILLS TO SET OUR STUDENTS UP FOR SUCCESS. But before you have students working on developing fluency, they need to know what it is, how they can improve it, and of course, what it sounds like. I truly believe that some direct instruction on reading fluency is key to student growth. Each year, I start out with a few mini lesson on reading fluency. You _could_ do these fluency lessons all in one day, but I find it more effective to really focus on one element of fluency each day for a week and then combine it all. These mini lessons only need to take 10 minutes with five minutes or so of practice. I use my Fluency Task Cards in all of the lessons. Since we use them so frequently in centers, it's a good way to get them started. _AT THE END OF THIS POST, YOU CAN GET A FREE SET OF FLUENCY TASK CARDS SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO USE WITH EACH OF THESE LESSONS. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO IMPLEMENT THESE FIVE DAYS OF FLUENCY LESSONS IS COMPLETELY FREE.__
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Fluency Anchor Chart Here is the anchor chart that we build as we learn about each element of a fluent reader. Remember to create this fluency anchor chart WITH you students. It does little good if you make it and then just hang it up one day. However, if you create it WITH them, they will know exactly what it says and know when to reference it. If you'd like to make your anchor chart look like mine, you can download the printable elements for free HERE,
but again, please make sure you make it an interactive experience with your students... especially the handwritten part! Here is an overview of the lessons I teach each day as I introducereading fluency.
DAY 1: ACCURACY
On this day, we focus on reading accurately as a component of fluency. I define that for them as: IF I'M READING ACCURATELY, * I DON'T ELIMINATE WORDS, WORD ENDINGS, OR WORD BEGINNINGS. * I DON'T ADD WORDS THAT DON'T BELONG In other words, fluent readers don't make very many mistakes when they are reading. I used to add that you shouldn't "guess" at words, but now I am sure to clarify that they shouldn't guess at words without making sure they make sense within the context of thesentence.
ACCURACY ACTIVITY: I put up a short fluency task card on the document camera and then give them each a black and white copy of it and tell them to mark any, but at least ONE, errors that I make while reading. Then, I do a fairly abysmal job of reading it out loud to them. I read it nice and speedily, but I throw in extra words, I add or eliminate some prefixes or suffixes, and sometimes I totally misread a word because I'm going too fast. Then we have a little discussion about all the ways I was not an accurate reader and why, even though I read fast, it isn't going to help me become a better reader with all those mistakes! I like to jot these down in our reading notebooks, too! DAY 2: EXPRESSION/PROSODY On this day, we focus on reading with expression, or having excellent prosody. This is always a favorite day because we get to be a little bit silly! I define that for them as: IF I'M READING WITH APPROPRIATE EXPRESSION, * I DON'T SOUND LIKE A ROBOT * I REIN IN THE DRAMATIC ACTOR LIVING INSIDE OF ME This one is pretty straight forward, but it's something they need tobe reminded of.
EXPRESSION ACTIVITY: I have blogged about this activity before, so you can hop over to THIS blog post about the activity I do to encourage expressive readers. I use the book Good Boy, Fergus for this activity. You can use this one for punctuation as well! Additionally, I pull out the same task card that we used yesterday. This time, I explain that my accuracy is going to be on point, but that I want them to pay careful attention to my expression. I read it robotically and I read it like a stage actor presenting Shakespeare. Then I read it normally. We talk about the differences in my reading and which one makes more sense. I end by giving them each a different fluency task card and having them read it all three ways: like a robot, like an actor, and normally. (This is when you'll use the Expression task card included for free in the set!)DAY 3: PUNCTUATION
Today, we focus on using punctuation to become more fluent readers. This day flows really well after expression day because it reinforces how to use your expression appropriately. If you didn't use Good Boy, Fergus yesterday, you can use it today, and if you DID use it yesterday, I highly encourage you to pull it out again and talk about how the punctuation in the book contributes to your appropriateexpression.
IF I'M PAYING ATTENTION TO PUNCTUATION WHILE I READ, * I LOOK FOR COMMAS, PERIODS, EXCLAMATION MARKS, AND DIALOGUEMARKERS
* I LOOK FOR WORDS IN BOLD OR ITALICS TO BE EMPHASIZED PUNCTUATION ACTIVITY: For our main activity on this day, I make a copy of one of my punctuation-specific fluency task cards and use White Out to eliminate all of the punctuation in it. I have them read it out loud. It's obviously a hot mess, and they know it! Then, I give them a copy WITH punctuation, and we talk about thedifference.
DAY 4: PACE
PACING is what most kids think about when they are talking about fluency. It's the rate or speed at which they are reading. Idefine it as...
IF I'M READING WITH NATURAL PACING, * I'M NOT PRETENDING TO BE IN A SPEED READING COMPETITION. * I READ AS THOUGH I'M HAVING A NATURAL CONVERSATION. PACING ACTIVITY: Yep, you guessed it. We have a speed reading competition. Things get crazy. Nobody can understand a word. Nobody can retell what they just read. Another big old mess of a reading! We also go nice and slow... too slow. On this day, we usually do a choral reading as well. I'll read it with exceptional pacing, then guide them in reading it all together at a nice, naturalpace.
DAY 5: COMPREHENSION Day 5 leads us into our essential reading skills. Since I do this series of fluency lessons at the very beginning of the year, after this week, I dive right in to teaching reading skills. (You can read more about how and when I teach reading skills HERE.)
Therefore, I don't spend a ton of time talking about comprehending other than telling them that it means they understand what they arereading.
IF I'M COMPREHENDING WHAT I'M READING, * I AM ALWAYS CHECKING FOR UNDERSTANDING* I READ TO LEARN
COMPREHENSION ACTIVITY: I use one of my longer fluency task cards (usually from the Back to School set) and combine everything that we have learned over the last four days (accuracy, expression, punctuation, pacing) to read it. I've included one in your free set to use. Then I have them turn their card over and ask a few basic comprehension questions about it (Think: who, what, where, when, whyquestions).
After we have discussed all of these concepts, our anchor chart is done, and I post it up on the board, I also have small versions that they glue into their reading notebooks. This, along with a checklist for fluent reading that mirrors the anchor chart are available forfree HERE
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Fluency Anchor ChartDAY 6 AND BEYOND...
Now that your students know all of the components to fluency, it's time to actively work on improving those fluency skills! I have a set of fluency task cards in my reading rotations nearly every single week. Back in 2012, I was in a reading interventionist role, and the only fluency resources my school used consisted of long passages where students read as much as they could in one minute, then read it again, and again, and again. This wasn't motivating for my students, it required a teacher to be done well, they weren't really reflecting on the progress they were (or weren't) making, and engagement was almost zero. At that time, I was super into using and creating task cards, for their myriad benefits, and I thought, "WHY NOT FOR FLUENCY!?" That's when I created the concept of fluency task cards and posted the first set of Fluency Task Cards ever available on TpT. Here's what I love about using fluency task cards:
* They are short passages specifically designed around criticalfluency concepts.
* They aren't designed to be timed. So instead of worrying about getting further into the passage with each read, students are instead focusing on actively improving all components of their fluency, notjust their speed.
* They are designed to be visually appealing and the content is relevant and interesting so they are engaging to the kids. * Students see immediate growth with research-based repeatedreading.
* Students interact with one another and give each other feedback about ways they can improve. * They are low prep and can be used year after year! Teacher win! Most of the time, I have students read their fluency task cards with partners. I make sure they have the fluency checklist that I linked to above so that they can "rate" themselves at the end. We use a simple rating system of green, yellow, and red, and we talk a lot about what a red reading looks like (several accuracy errors, robotic pace, etc.) and what a green reading looks like (have they followed the checklist as best they can?). We aren't looking for perfection to get a green, but improvement and overall excellent fluency. During one rotation, they read each card at least 3 times, taking turns and discussing their strengths in fluency and areas they can keep working on. They are encouraged to use the language that we have already reviewed and therefore need to refer back to the rubrics and posters often. I try to give them a wide variety of opportunities to work with different partners so that they get new feedback, too. They can usually get through about three cards during a 15 minute rotation. Are you ready to try out even more fluency task cards and put them into your reading rotations? Grab your free cards to complete the introduction lessons below. Then, consider your options! I recommend starting with concept-based fluency task cards focusing on specificfluency skills.
* The Original Fluency Task Cards * Prefix and Suffix Fluency Task Cards * Dialogue Fluency Task Cards * Punctuation and Expression Fluency Task Cards * Nonfiction Fluency Task Cards * Types of Sentences Fluency Task Cards After your students have worked through those (or at the same time), you can start incorporating seasonal fluency task cardsas well!
TEACH YOUR FIRST FIVE FLUENCY LESSONS! Send me the task cards You will immediately receive your free download when you submit. You'll be joining tens of thousands of teachers receiving tips, freebies, and ideas from me. You can unsubscribe at any time. I do mix in other fluency activities into my rotations, so they are only doing the fluency task cards about three days a week, but I have seen major growth in my students since I implemented them. Here'show I use them:
I also have a huge blog post about ways you can increase fluency, and it features ten different ways you can practice it in the classroom (primarily during centers rotations). Be sure to stop by that post to get even more ideas, too! There are some tried and true gemsthere, too!
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2019 USING PICTURES TO TEACH READING SKILLS PART 2 Using Pictures to Teach Reading Skills isn't a new idea over at Teaching With a Mountain View, but it sure has evolved over the years! Before you read this post, I highly recommend reading my original post about using pictures to teach reading skills. You canfind that post HERE
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If you want to dig really deep into the archives, I have posts as far back as 2012 that introduce the idea of using Pictures to Teach literal vs. inferential ideas and more! This post is a follow-up to those posts with a few updates and additions. This all started many years ago when I taught third grade. My students had a huge difference in ability levels. Some were fluently reading but not comprehending at all. Some weren't fluently reading. Some were still learning basic phonics and phonemic awareness skills. Others were fluent as could be and understood every word they read. It truly ran the gamut. Because of that, I knew I needed a way to make reading skills accessible and engaging to all of my students, no matter what level. During my first year teaching, my husband was out hiking with a buddy and his other friend snapped a picture of the two of them debating which way to go. One was holding a map, the other a GPS, and they both looked LOST. I took one look at that picture and said, "I need that! I'm bringing it to school to show my kids tomorrow." I printed it out, and the next day, we created this anchor chart: This inference anchor chart originally appeared on my blog HERE.
I introduced it by saying, "What can you tell me based on this picture?" The answers started very simply but quickly evolved. This is how that first conversation went... Student: "Oh! He is wearing a red hat!"Me: Yes... Go on...
Student: "Yeah! The other guy is holding a map."Me: ....
Student: "THEY MUST BE LOST."Me: BOOM! Yes!
Student: "OH! And since they're both wearing hats, it must be coldoutside..."
And on and on and on, I heard my students using their literal observations to bust out some solid inferences. It was one of those teaching moments that you never want to end because you can literally _see_ the lightbulbs going off one by one. Ding. Ding. Ding. After that lesson, I made INFERENCE TASK CARDS that used pictures, then moved on to text. They quickly became a student favorite in my literacy centers. When I say they became a favorite, I mean they became a favorite of every single student. The ones who could read, the ones who couldn't, and those in between. From that point forward, I incorporated pictures wherever I could. I pulled this picture from my honeymoon ATV trip when we were learning about figurative language, and boy did they come up with some creativesentences about it!
This figurative language anchor chart originally appeared on my blogHERE
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As the years went on, I continued to find different ways to incorporate pictures into my reading instruction. My students would cheer when they saw a blank piece of chart paper with nothing but a picture in the middle of it. "Oh, what are we going to do with THAT picture!?" they'd eagerly ask. When I was moved to teaching fourth grade, I wanted a way to take what we were doing as a whole class and move it into my small groups and literacy rotations. I also wanted to make the transition from pictures to text more seamless, and that's when I started creating USING PICTURES TO TEACH PRINTABLE RESOURCES.
As my teaching continued to evolve, I moved toward reviewing multiple reading skills with one picture. The beauty of this technique is that they are making inferences for every single task we complete, but reviewing other key reading skills at the same time. My students loved these just as much! They took a little bit more time to complete since we were reviewing multiple skills, but that made it perfect to work through over the course of a few days. Sometimes, I would put one of these in a reading center and have each group complete one section and then discuss it as a whole class whenwe were done.
Every time I post one of the anchor charts like the one above, I get questions about where I find my pictures, how I come up with which skills to work on, etc. That's why I created a new set of open-ended Using Pictures to Teach Printables that look just like the anchor chart above. They are ready to go! You can project them and complete them whole class, you can assign the digital version in Google Classroom, you can print them and have students complete them individually or with each other. The options are endless, but there are ten and they are all ready-to-use! Learn more about this resource HERE!
I am not exaggerating when I say that using pictures to teach reading skills is one of the best things I have implemented in my classroom. It not only changed the way I teach, but it changed the way my students thought about life, reading, and reading skills. I'd love to see your anchor charts that you create with your students! Don't forget to tag me in them @teachingwithamountainviewon Instagram.
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MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 2019 WEEKLY LETTER WRITING TO BUILD COMMUNITY Years ago, I shared this idea as a free resourceon
TpT, but I've never gotten around to explaining my weekly letter writing procedures over here on my blog! It's definitely time. When I was student teaching, I had truly _THE BEST_ cooperating teacher I could have asked for. She was a phenomenal teacher (she's now a principal), a master at building community in her classroom, and one of the kindest people I've ever met. I got so many wonderful ideas from her that year, and many of those ideas have become teaching traditions that still live on my classroom. One of my favorite activities that I have implemented because of her is Weekly Letter Writing. The premise is simple: I write a letter to my students every week, and they write back. It's the only homework I give (click here to read more about my homework policy),
but it's also one of the most important things I do in my classroom to build community. I've implemented this every year I've been in the classroom, and many of my colleagues have started doing it, too. WHY WRITE LETTERS EACH WEEK? _First_ and foremost, the purpose behind writing letters is to build relationships and connect with my students. Every single week, I get to read a personalized note from my students, and they get to read one from me. I get to know them better, and they get to know me better,too.
_Second_, it's an amazing way to have students practicing writing skills in a super fun and interesting way. I have watched kids blossom from two sentence letters at the beginning of the year to full-page letters by the end of the year. While they may not always be SUPER excited about the prospect of this (or any homework) at the beginning of the year, they always grow to love it. _Third_, it's an important opportunity to allow students to reflect on what is going on in our world and in our classroom. Since I write the letters each week (more about that below), I'm able to incorporate current events in the world as well as address certain things going onin our classroom.
WHAT DO I WRITE LETTERS ABOUT? So many different things! I start every letter with one or two sentences about something fun going on in my life (I usually write them on Sunday evenings or Monday morning, so I do a quick recap of my weekend.) Then I decide on my "topic" for the week. When I worked in an International Baccalaureate (IB) School, I would focus on one IB attitude each week or on our central idea. If you're working on a certain social studies topic, incorporate that into your letter. If you're reading a book, think about how they can reflect on that book in their letter. Consider local, national, or worldwide events and discuss them. Look at seasonal topics. The possibilities for what to write about are truly endless. I usually model a response to my prompt within the letter I write. If I'm asking them to think about empathy, I'll write about a time I showed empathy (or didn't show empathy...). I always include a prompt in my letter (and bold it so that it's clear what they need to write back about) that they should respond to, but students often add more details and tidbits about their lives. I HAVE TO WRITE TO THEM EVERY WEEK? DOESN'T THAT TAKE A LOT OF WORK? First, the letters are pretty short. If I'm writing a new one, it usually only takes about 10 to 15 minutes to draft. Second, I save my letters and do use similar prompts year after year. One grade level team I worked with that decided to implement this grade-wide came up with "templates" that we all used every year (based on our current topics) and then we just added in our own little notes, current events, etc. each week. This made sending them home every week a BREEZE! DO I GRADE AND RESPOND TO EVERY LETTER? Grade? No. Respond? Briefly. I am not exaggerating when I say this is the one piece of work that I look forward to reading more than any other. Kids tend to really get into this-- typing them out, adding borders, clip art, folding them into fun shapes, putting them into envelopes. They take great pride in their letters, so I really enjoy reading them. I choose maybe one a month to use the rubric (included in the free resource below) on, but I don't necessarily count it as a grade since it's homework, and I don't know what level of help they received onit.
I write short responses to letters. Sometimes it's as simple as responding with a "WOW!!" in the margins where they've written something interesting, or a quick "Me too!" comment. Sometimes, I write one or two sentences back (on the letter they wrote me). My kids are always eager to read my responses when they get them back thefollowing week.
HOW DO I GET STARTED? I usually start this during the very first week of school. Some years, I have introduced it on the first day of school. It depends what grade level you teach and how much pre-teaching of letter format you're going to have to do. But you definitely want to start this assoon as possible.
I have created a letter writing starter kit so that you can easily get going with letters in your classroom! It includes an information sheet for students, letter topic ideas and examples, and a short rubric for grading them, if you so choose. You can download the starter kit for free by clicking the image below. _Years ago, I wrote about this idea as a guest blogger on Laura Candler's blog. Clear HEREto read the
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SUNDAY, JULY 28, 2019 BEST BACK TO SCHOOL PICTURE BOOKS I absolutely love sharing great book recommendations over on mythe First for
amazing book recommendations, I've amassed quite a collection of first month of school read aloud books that upper elementary students love. These back to school books have a ton of different themes, from friendship and kindness to developing a growth mindset to accepting others and inclusion. Kids are never, ever too old to appreciate a good picture book, and amongst all of my other first week of school plans,
I always find time to incorporate picture books that are full of meaning, theme, and heart. Here is my collection of first day, week, or month of school read aloud books for bigger kids. You can click the image of any of these back to school books to be taken to an affiliate link to purchase the book, or even better, add it to your wishlist and share it with your principal or parents! Have fun choosing which ones you are going to incorporate! You can't go wrongwith any of these.
...and if you still need more amazing back to school, here are a fewmore that I love!
What if Everybody Did that? Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun Iggy Peck, Architect The Bear and the FernThe Dot
How I spent my Summer VacationThe Juice Box Bully
The Jelly Donut Difference Chocolate Milk, Por Favor I'd love to hear your favorite back to school books! Please share them with me in the comments, and happy reading! Are you looking for more first week of school or back to school lesson plans? Hop on over here to read more!Please Follow Me!
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SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2019 MY FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL PLANS Have you already started planning for the first week of school? I've always spent hours upon hours upon hours perfecting my first week plans. Then I usually get about half of what I planned done, which usually makes the second week a breeze! Those first few days offer such a crucial time for building community among classmates, relationships with individual students, and setting the groundwork for classroom management and your routines. I have several posts about the beginning of the year, but never before have I provided my complete plans for that important first week. Now, here they are! Before you take a look at my plan, it's important to understand my thinking about the first week of school... I know my planning philosophy differs from some of the more popular philosophies and advice given in certain books, and I'm okay with that. I tried taking that advice for a few years, and the first few days felt slow, my students weren't engaged or excited about what was happening, and I never really felt like it was setting groundwork for the rest of the year. Instead of baby steps, we dive right in to our normal schedule. As I plan for the first few days, I keep our schedule almost exactly as it will stand for the rest of the school year. That means we have morning work, morning meeting, reading, math, writing, and science or social studies. I infuse discussions about expectations as we move throughout the first week, we reflect on what is going well and what we need to improve upon, and we start to learn specific routines to be successful for the rest of the year. While we do this, though, children are engaged in exciting and academically challenging tasks. We are getting to know each other well, as humans and as learners. My goal is that my kids leave school excited and are eager to come back the next day and the next day. Every single thing I do during this week is to prepare my class for the upcoming academic year. They learn the procedures that we need to have in place to accomplish all of those rigorous academics that will be facing them. This set-up has always worked quite well for me, and I end the first week with solid relationships with most of my students. Our classroom has a foundation of trust and expectations for the year to come. They know what to expect from me, from our schedule, and from many of our daily routines. Do we have moments where we have to stop, take a breath, and reflect on a little chaos? Absolutely! But we learn from those moments, and we understand whythey don't work.
You don't need to squint to read these plans! I have them compiled in a big document, complete with explanations of all the activities. A few notes as you begin looking through all of these plans... * PLAN BIG! If you get through all of these plans in the first week, YOU ARE MY HERO! I have this set up as what would happen in an ideal world, but KEEP IN MIND THAT THERE IS A LOT OF FRONT LOADING EXPECTATIONS THAT MUST GO INTO THIS PLAN BEFORE IT CAN ALL BE IMPLEMENTED. You can't expect your students to know how to function in centers, in morning meeting, etc. so anticipate needing to take time to set up expectations as you move through the plans. I briefly touch on expectations and procedures in the plans, but you will need to fill in a lot of blanks that fit the needs of _your classroom_. * YOU DO YOU. I mean it. Please don't take these plans and implement them 100% into your classroom. You have amazing ideas that will bring your own personal touch into your first week of school. Some of these activities won't resonate with you, or they won't help set up your classroom routines. For example, I use Topple Blocks and Task Cards during the first week of school because we use those a lot in my classroom. If you don't use that type of resource, replace my plans with resources you DO use. * EXPECTATIONS ARE KEY. I kind of sound like a broken record here, but please make sure that as you implement these activities, you are focusing more on setting up expectations than on the activity itself. I simply can't stress this enough. What you do during this week (and the following weeks) will set a precedent for the rest ofthe year.
* IF YOU DON'T DO WORKSHOPS/CENTERS/ROTATIONS... First, I'd implore you to do a bit of research into this style of teaching and see if you can perhaps implement it at least one or two days a week. It is so beneficial. BUT, if you are not accustomed to running workshops or you don't anticipate running a workshop model for the rest of the year, adapt these plans to work for your schedule and routines. You don't need to spend time setting up a workshop model if you aren't going to use it later on. Instead, just pick and choose some of the ideas to implement whole class. * WHERE'S THE TECH? We use a lot of technology in my classroom, but slow and steady wins the race on this one. I don't introduce iPads or laptops during the first week for a few reasons. To begin, it never fails: The first time using iPads or laptops always results in a little bit of anxiety for some kids (okay, and teachers) because it's just never a seamless process. Second, I want us working face to face and building relationships without the distraction of technology. * ON DIFFERENTIATION: This is the one week of the year that I don't do a ton of differentiation. I want this week to be accessible and exciting for all of my students, so I choose activities that most students can participate in and feel successful. _That being said, with some adaptations, these plans would work best for grades 3-6._ * WHAT YOU NEED: I have done my best to make a list of exactly what you need to have prepped for each day. Some of the resources include products in my store or others' stores, or may include an Amazon Affiliate link to books or supplies. Most links are clickable to make it easy for you to find what you need! * STILL NOT ENOUGH? If you find that you still need to supplement some more ideas, check out this huge post about First Week of School Activities for Big Kids!
* WHAT'S NEXT? After the first week is over, we really dive into our normal routines and academics. This is when I begin my formal math and literacy mini-lessons, start our typical workshop/center routines, and get my curriculum rolling. * EXPECTATIONS! Really, though. The number one thing you should be focusing on during this week (aside from building stellar foundational relationships with your kids) is expectations. My favorite saying is the 3As. Again and again and again until we get itright.
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