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David Goes to School with SELF TO TEXT CONNECTIONS

Back to School! David Goes to School unit is a great way to Establish or revisit your classroom rules. Have fun in the beginning of the school year doing a self to text connection of David Goes to school by David Shannon and create a behavior anchor chart for the classroom at the same time! Students will have the opportunity to make self to text connections of the book David goes to school so they can really internalize appropriate behavior in class.

 

 

 

 

Pete the Cat and his Four Groovy Buttons. Close reading is a careful and methodical rereading that requires critical thinking about the text. Students must focus on what the author is saying and what his or her purpose is. Students need to pay attention to what the words and the structure of the text are telling us. Within a close read, there must be text dependent questions that require students to go back into the text and search for the answers. These questions should promote students to think about the text and the authors purpose.

Close reading requires students to actually think and understand what they are reading! Pre-school, kindergarten and beginning of the year 1st grade students may not have the necessary foundational skills to tackle a close read. This does not mean they can not be exposed to how to conduct a close read! The sooner we expose students to certain common core terminology and practices, the better.

Teach the alphabet letter sounds through a super hero theme! All the letters have a super power that is related to the sound they make. Each letter is strategically illustrated modeling an action when making its' sound! It is so helpful for those visual and kinesthetic learners! You will be amazed at how fast your kiddos will learn the letter sounds!

This Guided Reading program with book included can be used with students that are learning pre-literacy skills. It includes fully guided reading scripted lessons that provide students with plenty of letter sound correspondence, sight word recognition, blending, and segmenting activities. It also includes a guided reading book that fits the foundational skills being covered so students have the opportunity to practice the skills they are learning. In addition, this guided reading packet includes a reading strategies mat to help students tackle that first read!
This packet is also perfect for Response to Intervention!

Word Family ig, The Big Gig!

This is one of 5 very comprehensive onset and rime (word families) guided reading packets. You will find a tremendous amount of activities that cover reading foundational skills and reading comprehension. Students will have plenty of opportunities to blend and segment onsets with the rime “ig”. A guided reading book filled with “ig” words is included so students can put into practice the skills they’ve been working on. These books are carefully planned so that skills are introduced in a purposeful sequential manner. You will find 5 lessons based on the book. These lessons are strategically created so that the teacher states clearly what is being taught, models the skill and gives plenty of opportunities to practice that skill. All of the lessons come with worksheets and materials needed to execute the lesson.
Having these books along with the activities is not enough. You must teach students strategies or cuing systems that will help them tackle that first read! I came up with a super hero theme since I teach the letter sounds using that theme. I call using these strategies being a “super reader”. Included is a reading strategy mat that students can refer to as they tackle that first read!
The word family series consists of 5 books. Each book focuses on one rime or word family at a time. All 5 books are cleverly written with words that contain the same rime.

Guided Reading Book 4 Jen the Hen

This packet is one of 5 very comprehensive RTI short vowel guided reading packets. You will find a tremendous amount of activities that cover reading foundational skills and reading comprehension. Students will have plenty of opportunities to blend and segment CVC words with short e vowel. A guided reading book filled with short e CVC words is included so students can put into practice the skills they’ve been working on. These books are carefully planned so that skills are introduced in a purposeful sequential manner. You will find 5 lessons based on the book. These lessons are strategically created so that the teacher states clearly what is being taught, models the skill and gives plenty of opportunities to practice that skill. All of the lessons come with worksheets and materials needed to execute the lesson.
Having these books along with the activities is not enough. You must teach students strategies or cuing systems that will help them tackle that first read! I came up with a super hero theme since I teach the letter sounds using that theme. I call using these strategies being a “super reader”. Included is a reading strategy mat that students can refer to as they tackle that first read!
The short vowel series consists of 5 books. Each book focuses on one vowel at a time. All 5 books are cleverly written with cvc words that contain the same vowel.