These 5 student engagement strategies will give you engaged learners during reading centers while also providing students with your expectations! As we know, keeping engaged learners during guided reading centers while you are teaching small group lessons is by far one of the biggest challenges in the primary classroom. But it doesn’t need to be…
Buddy reading (or Partner reading) is an important Must-Do in our opinion. But just like any literacy activity, buddy reading needs to be managed well or it may not go quite as planned. So here are my 5 simple tips to managing buddy reading in your classroom: (Don’t miss the FREE editable reading anchor chart…
So you have your brand new HMH into Reading Curriculum for kindergarten, 1st grade, or 2nd grade and it’s time to plan your HMH into Reading lesson plans…yay! It’s perfect, except…there is NEVER enough! Every 1st grade teacher knows we need LOTS and LOTS of engaging centers and guided reading activities to supplement our HMH…
By this time in 1st grade, we want our students to be reading independently with fluency and comprehension. They should be able to select a book at their level and read it…REALLY reading! And the thing is, our students want to read more! Many of us stop our students’ excitement of reading independently by requiring too…
There are only a few weeks left in the school year to prepare our 1st graders for the rigors of 2nd grade. One thing we can focus on is helping struggling students improve their reading fluency skills! How can we best spend those precious weeks? First and Foremost, improve reading fluency by targeting your instruction…
What is Whisper Reading? Whisper reading is a whole group and/or guided reading strategy where students are quietly reading text without disturbing neighbors. The teacher goes around and listens to each reader briefly, giving feedback, then moving on to the next. I have found whisper reading to be a highly effective strategy for getting all…
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