I love a good reading challenge in the classroom! Reading challenges are a way to get kids working on multiple skills, reading a ton, and learning a lot. But they are doing all of this while having SO MUCH FUN and not really even knowing that they are reading. A win-win, right?! How does a reading challenge work? A reading challenge is simple! You have a task that you want the children to complete, but in order to do so they have to read several passages and answer many text dependent ... Read More about St. Patricks’ Day Reading Challenge
Spring Reading Centers
When you begin spring in the classroom, students tend to get a little bit bored and want to switch it up a little bit. In order to keep them engaged in the things that you do every day you want to find some engaging content. Today, I am going to share with you a few ideas to switch it up this spring with your reading centers! Spring Slide Decks Slide decks are the most popular reading center in my classroom. Each slide deck gives the students 7 slides to go through on a given topic. In ... Read More about Spring Reading Centers
Book Club Books for 3rd Grade
I LOVE book clubs in my third grade classroom. I love watching kiddos all read the same book together and discuss what they are reading. It is one of my favorite parts of reading instruction in third grade! Whenever I share about book clubs many teachers ask me what books would be best for their kiddos. I am going to share a list of 20 books at different ranges and levels. I typically am not leveling books for my kids, but during book clubs I try to group similarly levels kids and give ... Read More about Book Club Books for 3rd Grade
How to Teach Opinion Writing using Multiple Sources
Oh opinion writing. When kids are younger opinion writing is SO MUCH FUN because they just write to talk about what they like, but as they get older it gets a little more difficult. They are reading content and having to base their opinion off of content that they read. It is challenging for their little minds. Start Simple When I start teaching opinion writing using content from other sources I start super simple. I have the kiddos read a simple news article and then write if they agree or ... Read More about How to Teach Opinion Writing using Multiple Sources
March Madness in the Classroom
March Madness in the Classroom One of the best ways to engage your learners is my finding a topic that is interesting to them or happening in real time and bringing it into your classroom. March Madness is a perfect example of this! The kids love sports and basketball, but you can also do March Madness activities right around the time that their parents are at home talking about March Madness, hello engagement! Tournament of Books One of the most popular ways to celebrate March Madness ... Read More about March Madness in the Classroom
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