This is a blank guided reading lesson plan that will work with any level, any book. It gives you the "skeleton" of a balanced literacy lesson. Yo... ByStacy Vaske
This is an explicit instruction lesson that I used to teach the Compare and COntrast text structure in texts. The students responded so well to it.... ByStacy Vaske
This is a what I put together to help my students research a career during our Community Unit. They first thought of 3 careers they are interested... ByStacy Vaske
This is a strategy that links a topic or concept with writing. The acronym RAFT: stands for Role, Audience, Format, Topic.
Role--you give them ... ByStacy Vaske
This is a visual representation )graphic organizer) that I created for a guided reading book that showed good description. I also added a "detail" ... ByStacy Vaske