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Strategies and resources for determining the main idea and supporting details

Main Idea Strategies & Activities

Determining the main idea is an important reading comprehension strategy. Read on to see how anchor charts, mentor texts, and graphic organizers can help.

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Improving reading fluency with nonfiction texts

Reading Fluency with Nonfiction Texts

When you think about fluency in reading, do you think dialogue, mood, and characters’ feelings?  I certainly do, but what about when students are reading

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Free Verse Poetry Examples and Strategies for kids

Free Verse Poetry Teaching Resources

I love teaching poetry!  It is one of my favorite units for seeing student creativity.  When students work on a structured poem like Haiku or

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Five Great Ways to Improve Parent Teacher Communication

Parent Teacher Communication Ideas

Building positive relationships with parents is extremely helpful to make your school year run smoothly.  There are times when a phone call is the best

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Anchor charts and mentor texts for composing strong narrative leads

Personal Narratives with Strong Leads

“Hook your Readers!” This is what we tell our student in order to help them understand the importance of a strong lead when composing personal

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Teaching Students How to Read with Voice

One of the reasons I love teaching second grade is because I get to see huge growth in my young readers.  Although we definitely continue

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Finding a Small Moment for Personal Narratives

Personal narratives are one of my favorite writing projects because they allow me to learn great things about my students.  I enjoy hearing about those

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Fun & Free Morning Meeting Ideas

I have grown to love the rituals our class has developed for our morning meetings.  During distance learning and hybrid, they have looked different, but

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Three Ways to Foster Effective Peer Feedback

Feedback is important to help our young learners continue to grow.  This includes feedback from teachers as well as feedback from peers.  Today, I am

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Any time you can make a connection to ice cream, t Any time you can make a connection to ice cream, the strategy becomes more engaging!  The students and I worked together to discuss main idea and write supporting details (“cool facts”) in our own words. 

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We are reviewing even and odd numbers. Looking at We are reviewing even and odd numbers. Looking at them as partners and teams helped make the concept more concrete. 

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Aahhhhh! My Keurig stopped working this morning. Aahhhhh!  My Keurig stopped working this morning.  It’s a good thing I had Target gift cards saved so I could immediately handle this emergency!

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Post-it Notes are great for jotting about reading Post-it Notes are great for jotting about reading because they allow students to mark the place in the book with evidence to justify their thinking. 

They are also great for activities like jotting 3-5 important words from the text and placing them in order of importance.

So, what’s the problem?  Post-it’s often end up on the floor, fall out of books, and may get used for other purposes that are not “teacher-approved”. 

I’ve definitely used my reading notebooks more this year, but I’m not ready to say goodbye to Post-it Notes. Sometimes, they’re definitely the best option.  What are your thoughts?

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Here’s a quote that I refer to quite often, just Here’s a quote that I refer to quite often, just in case you ever need to hear it. Of course, just about everything Maya Angelou says is genius. 

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Today I realized we are down to 21 days of school. Today I realized we are down to 21 days of school. I am definitely having some mixed feelings now. I am looking forward to getting more quality time with my family and friends. I’m feeling anxious about “getting it all done”. I’m realizing that my time with this group is limited. After the past two years, I realized how much I love teaching in the classroom. I’m going to miss this group for sure!

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