Choice Lit Topic: Teaching Reading
Our contributors lead reading workshops in classrooms with creative flair. Over the past 12 years, we’ve filled our site with loads of suggestions, tools, and tips for using engaging books throughout the curriculum to hook kids on reading. Here is where you will find many stories of successful and not-so-successful workshop days, and what we learned from them. We bring these stories to life through hundreds of video examples.
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Teaching Rereading During Class Read Alouds
I teach my 4th graders the power of rereading using the mentor text Goblins in the Castle by Bruce Coville. In this video, you can see we use rereading as...
Revising Titles Minilesson
In this minilesson from Franki Sibberson's grades 3 and 4 classroom, Franki takes students through the process of selecting and revising titles. She uses the poem "Confessions of a Reader"...
Integrating Vocabulary and Retelling Strategies into Read-Aloud
Stella Villalba scaffolds the language development of her first- and second-grade English language learners during read-aloud by highlighting vocabulary and providing a tool to assist with a partner retelling activity....
Quick Take: Special Library Shelves
Christy Rush-Levine shares a few special shelves in her classroom library.
Author Studies for Primary Students
It is toward the end of the school year in kindergarten, and we are in the middle of one of my favorite units, an author study with Grace Lin. We...
Field Experience: Kindergarten Writers
Spend time with the youngest writers and you will be mesmerized by their writing processes. This field experience focuses on kindergarten writers. Topic: Writing Instruction Grade Level: Elementary Shared Writing...
Teaching Punctuation Through Shared Reading in Kindergarten
The first purpose of shared reading is to provide children with an enjoyable reading experience, to introduce them to a variety of authors and illustrators and the ways these communicators...
Prompting and Support: Understanding the Language of the Common Core in Kindergarten
Gradually releasing responsibility to children as they gain expertise, teaching a few strategies of great consequence in-depth over time, and giving children the gifts of time, choice, response, community, and...
First Day of School Read-Alouds with Global and Multicultural Perspectives
Grades K-3 Ada, Alma Flor. 1993. My Name is María Isabel. Illustrated by K. Dyble Thompson. New York: Aladdin. María Isabel is the new girl in school and instead of being called...
