Amanda O'Brien

This is an individualized sheet made for students who have trouble staying on task. This is a simple to do list that can be used for any assignment within the classroom or for home.

Teaching Inferences is one of the hardest pieces of reading to teach, especially to struggling readers. This is an organizer and lesson plan that can guide your lesson plans that can be used across any literature. It is also an excellent tool for formative assessment. It breaks inferencing down into parts- Feeling, Explanation of the Feeling, Supporting Text, and Connection. I have used it many times and have seen great success. It can be used whole group, small group, or individually. It

Do you have students that blurt out even with redirection? This chart teaches them to be aware of the strategy they are using to gain attention or speak their mind. You can be rewarded for how many days you are able to stay in the green zone or simply just feel good that you are doing the right thing. This could be used whole group, individually, small group with or without the support of an adult.

This chart can be modified for any behavior- attention, outburts, blurting out, etc... The goal is for students to become aware of their behavior and try to beat their number each day. The first sheet is intended for students to tally their frequency. It could be at first that the teacher has to point out each behavior verbally or visually and then the student writes down the tally. Eventually, it should be the student realizing the behavior and tallying themselves. The second sheet for the

These are easy rules that students can remember when applying to multiple syllable words. There are very few exceptions to these rules as reading becomes more difficult. This sheet will provide them an easy go to guide when trying to read fluently. They can then concentrate on comprehension rather than fluency.

This lesson plan breaks down a two week small group reading block to target the Common Core goal of finding evidence to support main ideas that are inferential or literal. It does a great job of forcing students to monitor their comprehension. I have used it with struggling readers during guided reading.

This is a game format to hit the standard that deals with modeling addition and subtraction problems using base ten blocks. It includes directions for the game, along with problems, and a game mat. It can be done whole class, teams, or groups of three.

Informational text is so overwhelming that students get lost in so many details. This lesson plan and organizer will guide your students through comprehending nonfiction text. It will help them get down to exactly what they need to learn. Close reading involves breaking down the text to the word level. This organizer guides the students through key words to sentences to facts to a summary. It can be used in many different settings, with any nonfiction text, and with any age level. It is a

For students who struggle with number identification and writing, it is important to try to show them in a different format. Sometimes just writing the numbers vertically to show how numbers are a pattern sparks that learning. Attached is the lesson plan along with the number grids to teach the students. All you need is a student willing to learn and some colored pencils.

4 tools to help you take data and teach students how to self-monitor their behaviors while creating awareness and independence. The tools included are work completion, attention, blurting out, and consequences and alternative solutions. It is important to use a gradual release model with these behaviors with modeling, guidance and then independence. These are skills that need time to build. VERY SUCCESSFUL!

Struggling readers need a structure, strategy, or routine to follow every time they read. They have to have a strategy that can generalize to any text. This packet includes a phonics organizer, multiple informational and fictional organizers, and a vocabulary organizer. I use them everyday and it works! It is a word document so you can modify it aas you see fit.

Common Core lesson plan to help guide close reading of nonfiction text. It is a very easy to follow format and can be used for any level or type of nonfiction text. The lesson plans helps you teach how to break down the text, determine importance, and then summarize the information. It is a word format, so modify to work for you. ENJOY!

This is multiple lesson plans with graphic organizers to teach any child to read. It particularly helps give structure for struggling readers. There are multiple inferencing organizers for fiction and nonfiction. There is also phonics and vocabulary support. It is a word document so feel free to modify as you need it. It has helped hundreds of my students. I hope it helps yours!

This lesson plan is a step by step guide to teach students how to sound out words that contain more than one syllable. It is easily adusted to meet the needs of the students. The rules learned can then be generalized into their reading and writing of text. There is an assessment format attached to help test for mastery.

This is a writing activity using the book-Who is Melvin Bubble? The writing activity is to write a paragraph about yourself from Santa's perspective. It is a very engaging activity that shows the correlation between reading and writing.

Struggling readers need a structure, strategy, or routine to follow every time they read. They have to have a strategy that can generalize to any text. This packet includes a phonics organizer, multiple informational and fictional organizers, and a vocabulary organizer. I use them everyday and it works! It is a word document so you can modify it aas you see fit.

This is an easy to use overlook of the important information included in a student's indiviualized programming. This makes it much easier for anyone who comes in contact with the student to know how to best meet the needs rather than flipping through all that paperwork. I kept it in a word format so you can edit it for your own students.

This organizer can be use to comprehend any text. It can be used for just a paragraph, a whole chapter, or even a whole book. Students can even draw the organizer on their own if they do not have it with them in order to guide their comprehension. It has a very simple format for that very reason. It is great for inferencing fiction and nonfiction. ENJOY!

This page is for students after they have made a poor choice. It is intended for them to realize that all actions have consequences and that all behaviors are a choice. It can be done individually, whole group, independently.

This lesson plan and organizer helps you teach how to read nonfiction text. Students tend to just read and not dissect what they are reading. Here you can teach students to look at the author's sentence structure to help determine which sentences match their purpose for reading the text. It is in word format so you can modify it to meet your needs. It promotes comprehension independence for nonfiction text. Great to use for short articles, nonfiction books, websites, blogs, and textbooks.