Daily 5 Station Ideas
Each Monday we collaborate with our building's new and Dual Language staff members for a professional development session based on what they highlight as their needs and/or desires for learning! This week we focused on Daily 5 ideas as all of our staff are currently working hard to get their stations and guided reading up and running! The teachers who attending the session came up with a variety of wonderful ideas and activities that could potentially be used throughout the year in these…
What is it? A Guessing Game
Last year I made this guessing game using mini file folders and pictures from magazines. The idea originated at Childcareland. Inside is the picture. A little window is cut on the front so you have a glimpse of the picture. Clues are there for the grown ups to ask the children. Something that I would add, looking at it with fresh eyes, is the answer on the inside so they can see the word.
Daily 5 Math.......Math By Myself
This year's Daily 5 board that includes the math options. One of the storage areas for Daily 5 Math. Build an Equation Number Puzzles Building Tallies Most of the game ideas {if not all of them} came from Renee over at The Reading Corner!!! Doing Daily 5 Math this year has worked wonders for my students' math comprehension. We start our math block {system required 90 uninterrupted minutes, which means they want straight math with no bouncing back & forth between math and RLA} with the Topic…
Daily 5 Rotation Schedule
Use this color-coded schedule to help your five groups navigate through Daily 5 Rotations. The "meet with teacher" time is built in to facilitate guided reading.
Lunch Linky and The Daily Five Update - Tunstall's Teaching Tidbits
I am joining the lunch linky party with Tara! Here’s my lunch box and contents from today Carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers and hummus. Pistachios for my snack later. I forgot to eat my pistachios and when I came into my room after school all I had left were shells all over my desk from my son. […]
A Peek At Our Week: Characterization and Text Structure
Hello, friends! I hope that everyone had a great Monday! Last week was our first full week of the Daily Five and overall it went really we...
Using Board Games to Engage Students with Task Cards!
I'm always trying to think about new ways to use task cards since we use them so often. My students enjoy them, and they will ALWAYS tell m...
Advanced Reading Intervention Plans - Teaching with a Mountain View
Last year, I spent a lot of my time with “advanced” readers. These are readers who can read lickity split and don't need any more instruction on reading fluency. These are the students who so often get left behind because to the “naked eye,” they look perfectly fine academically. They can give you the gist ... Read more
Fluency Task Cards | Distance Learning | Google Classroom
32 Fluency Task Cards with varied sentence types to help your students practice their oral reading fluency! Perfect small group, whole group, or independent center fluency activity.Includes both a PRINTABLE and a DIGITAL versionI created these for my students to practice their fluency of phrases an...
Literature STATIONS- ANY Novel, Drama, Story - Print & Digital Distance Learning
Literature Stations with Task Cards - Motivate your students with STATION work centered on Common Core topics using ANY novel, story, or drama! You get TEN different stations with detailed task cards and inviting student handouts for each. Great for differentiation—you choose the stations that best fit the text and your students’ needs. Grades 6-7-8
Top 10 Tips for Building Fluent Readers - Teaching with a Mountain View
We have all heard about the shift that happens, usually between second and third grade, when students (should) go from learning to read to reading to learn. Unfortunately, for some students, their ability to read to learn is stifled by their inability to read fluently. Even for those kids who can read at an average ... Read more
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The very first time I used task cards in my classroom, I was hooked! I love task cards because these little cards are loaded with a great amount of focused, concentrated practice for my students, and they can be completed in such a variety of ways! My students love them because the task cards are […]
Let's give them something to talk about...
Finally classroom pictures are here for your viewing pleasure! I told you I would be changing the theme of my room to a Rock Star Room! Luckily, Abby at The Inspired Apple had chosen the same theme! So I used her idea for the behavior chart, as well as some of her titles for areas in the room. I also, created an I-Pod similar to hers (mine will be used as a reminder of our morning procedures). I really am happy with the outcome of my room! It is WAY truer to my personality (because I…