We recently purchased ANOTHER dinosaur book. This one is written by National Geographic and I have to admit that I am totally smitten with National Geographic Products. It is a great book. One of … [Read more...]
Making connections to your children’s favorite books
My bigger little guy LOVES the MagicTreehouse books. Unfortunately, we have read almost all of them. He isn’t ready to leave the story behind. Since I am waiting for some more to show … [Read more...]
Phonics Tic-Tac-Toe
Phonics and the iPad or iPhone. To be honest I have been pretty disappointed in all of the apps I have seen. They just haven’t been what I have really been looking for until I found this … [Read more...]
Nonfiction Reading Strategies: Strategy 3 – Analyzing Text Structure
Students, for the most part, have no idea about text organization. One of the biggest complaints, I hear from older students, is some version of their inability to read informational … [Read more...]
Pumpkin Word Sort
Last week we were working on spelling long a. I was inspired by this pumpkin math activity that was shared on Math Monday. I made two pumpkins and cut them into a puzzle. One had short a words and … [Read more...]
Nonfiction Reading Strategies: Questions
Last week I discussed activating background knowledge. This week we are moving on to the next strategy in nonfiction reading. The next strategy is questioning. This is not a strategy that is … [Read more...]