Blending Segmenting Onset to the Rime

Word Family -at
http://irkey.glogster.com/Word-Family-AT/

Writing Videos

Here are some videos and teaching ideas about writing.
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3749217

Beyond Retelling: I wrote this book!

 
http://www.allynbaconmerrill.com/authors/bio.aspx?a=9ff52629-7f85-44b5-b756-cb9f8d1939c8

Making Words by Patricia Cunningham

    http://thedolphinlady.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/making-words/
Read Write Think “Making Words” lesson http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=150 
Making Words http://www.k111.k12.il.us/lafayette/FourBlocks/making_words.htm 
Printable Making Words Cards:  http://www.alltogetherwecan.com/2008/03/31/printable-making-words-cards/

Summer Reading Matters

Summer Reading Matters
Summer reading matters because reading scores decrease when children don’t read.  Students need to experience ‘high success reading’, visit places with books, and have a ‘bring along a book’ plan.
Reading scores do not fall when children really read a lot of easy selections.  While my daughter was searching for the perfect book at [...]

Sunday, February 22 Comprehension Strategy: Thinking Theme

See you there!  International Reading Association in Phoenix.  Pat Cunningham and I will talk about how to do the Thinking Theme Strategy.  We have movie footage of students.  It is awesome!

Books to teach Courage

                                 
The teacher and students read lots of books about a theme.  The students are studying a character trait or theme.  The students easily identify the theme in a book. 
Which characters in _____ (name of the book) do you think show courage, and how do they show [...]

Thinking Aloud during Writing

Essential Question: How can I use “Think Aloud” to help me write my story?

Teacher reads the book,  How I Spent My Summer Vacation  written by: Marc Teague. Teacher uses the “Think Aloud” ideas from Writing Mini Lessons for Second Grade (pages 12-13) written by: Dorothy Hall, Patricia Cunningham, Debra Renner Smith.    Sometimes revisiting a selection [...]

Predictable Chart Day 5 Humpty Dumpty

When students enter, the predictable chart pages are ready to go. Their pages are at their seats.
At the beginning on the year, the students have a matching sentence printed on the paper, but this sentence is gone by October for most students. (This sentence is not the Humpty Dumpty sentence by the way.)

Teacher models [...]

Predictable Chart Day 4 Humpty Dumpty

Cut Up Sentences – Whole Group and Small Group

1. Write 2-4 sentences from the chart on sentence strips.
2. Show one sentence strip to the students.
3. Have the child who said the sentence come to the front of the room and read his/her sentence to the class. The child points to the words as (s)he reads [...]