Want a quick, free, no-prep Character Development lesson to do with your kiddos? I have something simple that can be used with any grade level and any book! Character Development During my 5th Grade Reading Small Group we are reading Where the Wild Things Are. We started the week off by reading the book and brainstorming character traits to describe Max. We used index cards to collect all of the character traits that we came up with (I'll talk about text evidence in a bit). Once we had all of our character traits, I passed out the cards to the students. They had to work as a group to create an order for the … [Read more...]
Editing and Revising Sentences: Fishing for Punctuation
Have you ever heard about the Revising and Editing Strategies called ARMS and CUPS? The 4th grade department at my school uses this strategy during their Writer's Workshop. I decided to create anchor charts for my small group area so that we can refer to it throughout our lessons. Of course, I just had to share with you! Please Note: This is not my original strategy! I am just sharing how I use it in the classroom. Editing with Cups First, here is a little look at the editing chart. Students use the CUPS strategy to edit their papers for capitalization, usage, punctuation, and spelling. Revising with … [Read more...]
Fiona’s Luck: A St. Patrick’s Day Read Aloud
Have you ever read Fiona's Luck by Teresa Bateman? It is a wonderful read aloud to share with your students any time of year but especially around St. Patrick's Day. Fiona's Luck is a folktale set in Ireland. The land was rich and plentiful thanks to the luck of the leprechauns. But when the "big folk" arrived, the Leprechaun King decides they need to take all of the luck away. That causes the land to be barren, the crops to not grow, and the cows to stop producing milk. It isn't long before a girl named Fiona comes up with a clever way to restore a little luck to the land. The Book One of the reasons … [Read more...]
Reading Folktales in the Classroom
Fractured Fairy Tales and Folktales are some of my FAVORITE books to read in the classroom. There is just so much you can with fairy tales. When I taught 1st grade {many moons ago} we would spend a whole month on fairy tales. It was always just the best time in first grade! When we started creating Rooted in Reading for 1st Grade, we just knew that we had to incorporate several folktales. We dedicated the month of March to everything FAIRY/FOLK TALES! I wanted to share about Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion {and I have a FREEBIE for you!} The Read-Aloud and Questions There are so many things I enjoy about … [Read more...]
Telling Time
Do you pull small groups during your math block? Sometimes finding activities to do at your back table can get tricky. You've already prepped everything for your lesson, activities, and independent work... how will you ever have time to get things ready for small groups?! I love what Kori from True Tales of a Teacher does. She saves Math PowerPoints and uploads the slides onto one of her favorite apps... Nearpod! This allows students to draw directly onto the PowerPoint so that they can solve the problems without just having to guess. You can see that students are working on different problems. They use their … [Read more...]
Superhero Reading Activities
This past year at Get Your Teach On, I had so much fun presenting a reading workshop called "Unmasking the Super Readers in Your Classroom." I am retiring the session, so I wanted to do a blog post explaining all.the.things. We start with a superhero story that I wrote called "The Missing Capes." All of the activities included can be done with the story so that you don't have to purchase another book at all. One of the reading comprehension focuses is writing a summary. Students learn the Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then summarizing strategy and display their summaries on the superhero capes. Another skill is … [Read more...]
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