I couldn’t wait to share with you our 1st Grade Summer Review Workbook! While we continue to learn and grow at the end of the year, we fear the dreaded summer slide for our students. And the summer slide is very real, but preventable if we provide our students with the right tools for the summer months….
May is the month when we make a mad rush to help those students who still need to improve their reading fluency before the end of the year. We read, reread, do repeated timings, work on word attack, improve our expression, partner read, and so much more. But the best and easiest strategy I have…
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…
Back to school is made easier when we have everything in place, including lesson plans, materials, our behavior management plan in place, and so on. It also makes the rest of the year go more smoothly when we are better prepared from the start. The concept of being prepared isn’t a new one. We all…
Using these vocabulary notebook templates to practice recording vocabulary words every day has been a staple in my first grader’s daily routines! As most of us can agree, daily vocabulary instruction is vital to developing reading comprehension and important for overall academic success. Vocabulary should be: I created a Vocabulary Notebook template that does all of…
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