A few of my groups have been learning about informational text and the features they might find in these books. Some were having a bit of difficulty learning and remembering the differences between informational text and literature until we color coded our charts. Click here to read about that. We first learned about the text features authors use to help… View Post
Details after 1st Reading vs. after Rereading I am sure you have heard of having students reread stories. There are many reasons why. Building fluency is one. I use rereading a lot during RtI to increase my students’ fluency. I have for many years had students reread their books. I have them read their book on day one for a… View Post
We started out our school year reading literature stories. My students learned that when they read those types of books they should be able to identify certain elements like characters, setting, problem, and solution. Once we learned this, we moved on to informational text. Problem was when we began to mix books, it became surprisingly hard for some of my… View Post
I have a student in the third tier of RtI. She struggles with fluency, but has been working oh so hard to improve! I found a way that I thought would help her. If you have been following my Wednesday posts for the past couple of weeks, you know that I had the pleasure of listening to Georgia Heard… View Post
By now you must think that I am the queen of binders!! Binders keep me organized and save me tons of time, especially for RtI. Hope you are sticking with me on these RtI postings and that you are finding them helpful in your school’s journey to get your RtI up and running. Click here to read the other RtI… View Post
I know we all love a great sale! Did you go Black Friday shopping? I went for a while Friday morning, but not super early like in years past. And I must say going at 8 am was a lot easier than getting up at 4 am to stand in line in the cold!! If you are a Teachers… View Post
Last week I wrote about attending the Marre Reading Conference and getting to hear Georgia Heard speak about using poetry in the classroom. You can get to last week’s post by clicking here. This week I want to discuss her ideas about posting poetry in the school to create interest in poems, expose students to a variety of poetry and… View Post
