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Heroes
Using Literature to Teach Children About Real Life Heroes Everyone needs inspiration. Teaching children about positive roles models helps them to understand the attributes of successful people....
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Reading Logs
As the first weeks of school are under way, I find many teachers are talking about reading logs for students. A reading log can help students to keep track of what they read and other useful...
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Monitor, Pause, Clarify
Over the last week, my students have been practicing the comprehension strategy Monitor and Clarify while reading a variety of texts in groups, individually and online. I have found this strategy to...
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Reading Lingo
Getting students to understand not just a reading strategy, but the terminology for each strategy seems to be one of the keys for me. If I just keep using the words monitor and clarify, visualize, and...
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Theme Versus Subject in Fiction
A common misconception – and sometimes even a challenge even for seasoned readers – is differentiating between a written work’s theme and subject. In order to help students understand a literary work’s...
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Inferring with Norman Rockwell – Finding the Clues
One of my favorite ways to teach inferencing skills to students is to use Norman Rockwell. He captures the hearts of so many of us: young and old. He has a realistic sense of humor, a poignant grasp...
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Book Review: Picturing Shakespeare (and Other Hard Books)
source: MorgueFile.com I had always loved to read, but it wasn’t until seventh grade English class that Miss Sauder opened the door to my future. Thanks to her passion for all things “Language Arts,” I...
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iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, iCanRead
Growing up, I couldn’t understand why my parents couldn’t figure out how to use the VHS or record a message on an answering machine. I always thought of myself as being tech savvy,…until I had...
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Close Reading
What Is Close Reading? Close reading is synonymous with it’s name. It is closely reading. In more specific detail, it is teaching students to read a text and to analyze the text. Close reading...
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Examining Close Reading Close reading helps students to find and cite evidence from the text. Students can answer text-dependent questions using close reading. Close reading helps students to...
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