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Reading Worksheets for Upper Elementary

February 28, 2021 by Ashleigh | Leave a Comment

Reading worksheets have gotten a bad rap, and that doesn't have to been the case. My favorite way to teach reading is through authentic and high-quality children's literature. Students participate in read alouds, book clubs, novel studies, literature circles, guided reading

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Visualizing When Reading

June 10, 2020 by Ashleigh | 8 Comments

Visualizing when reading is not something that comes naturally to all students. In many situations, visualizing has to be explicitly taught, even though it's often not included in state standards. Whenever the new year begins, I'm always anxious to jump right into my

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Reading Log Alternatives

June 7, 2020 by Ashleigh | 4 Comments

Does this sound familiar to you? You sit at your small group reading table during independent reading and scan your classroom. You see one student sitting quietly staring at their book. You notice that they're not tracking anything. It's almost like they're sleep reading. You see

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Combining Information From Multiple Texts

Combining Information From Multiple Texts

March 1, 2020 by Ashleigh | Leave a Comment

Combining information from multiple texts is not a skill that can be quickly taught. There is definitely a lot involved! Students must first be able to read and comprehend an individual informative text before they can apply those skills to combine information. Then integrating

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Explaining Events

December 22, 2019 by Ashleigh | Leave a Comment

One of the more challenging reading standards is explaining events in informational text. "Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text." This can be

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Teaching Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts

Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts

November 10, 2019 by Ashleigh | 1 Comment

When I moved back to teaching fourth grade and read the standard "Compare and contrast a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic; describe the differences in focus and the information provided" I was more than a little confused. Once I I spent time unpacking

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Teaching Greek Mythology through reading instruction

Teaching Greek Mythology

October 20, 2019 by Ashleigh | 3 Comments

I used to feel like the standard that required students to reference characters in mythology was a bit random. I struggled with how to tie this in to my reading instruction. But, when looking at the standards in totality, you can see how this builds upon previously taught

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Teaching Theme Lessons

September 29, 2019 by Ashleigh | 6 Comments

Teaching theme has to be one of my favorite topics in reading. It's probably become of the amazing collection of mentor texts that can be used for teaching theme, as well as how these lessons require students to dig a little deeper. This post shares some of my favorite mentor

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Point of View Worksheets

September 22, 2019 by Ashleigh | 8 Comments

These point of view worksheets, lessons, and activities are a great way to introduce point of view. Even though they're not exactly the same thing, I also introduce perspective during these lessons. I typically spend about a week teaching point of view and then circle around back

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Tips for Teaching Main Idea

Main Idea Worksheets & Ideas

August 18, 2019 by Ashleigh | 5 Comments

Main idea worksheets and activities don't have to be boring and full or rote learning. This challenging concept is often difficult for students to understand, so they need meaningful lessons. Over the years, I've learned that my main idea worksheets and activities need to be

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