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Four poems from www.gigglepoetry.com are used to ask students to make inferences by adding clues from the text with prior knowledge.

Two poems from www.gigglepoetry.com are used to ask questions about elements of poetry and making inferences.

Make your vocabulary instruction more interesting and engaging with over 20 activities and strategies that encourage students to interact with words. Directions and student record sheets (when applicable) are included for nearly two dozen interactive vocabulary activities.

Help your students master these 26 essential academic vocabulary words. These vocabulary tasks have been designed to help students understand and practice using essential vocabulary that appears routinely on standardized tests. The tasks could be utilized in conjunction with a Word of the Week. Each page highlights a specific vocabulary term and provides a definition, variations of the word, an explanation and/or examples of the word in use, and a selection of short student activities based o

This worksheet includes clues for the four parts of reciprocal teaching (predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing) and space to record student thinking about each part.

Thirty dominoes with pictures depicting different meanings of polysemous words. Students try to connect the dominoes by matching two pictures that represent a single multiple meaning vocabulary word. Perfect for small group instruction, collaborative literacy center or independent practice. Answers provided.

This graphic organizer makes an analogy between writing a paragraph to a burger. The first sheet allows for teacher modeling and/or student practice with adding details (meat, cheese, lettuce) to a topic and conclusion sentence (the bun). The directions explain that just like you cannot build a good sandwich without ingredients to put between the bread, you cannot build a good paragraph without interesting details. Topics for this activity include friendships, computers, and reading. The se

Students will work in groups to chart 10 trials of one person dropping a ruler for another to catch. This performance task provides students with cooperative group experience that includes independent reflection or questioning as follow-up. The task consists of a teacher direction sheet with sample performance criteria or exemplary responses and student activity sheets. When students are engaged in the performance tasks they should follow this basic format: • The teacher introduces the task

The students will work in groups to complete the activity. One student will drop the tennis ball to the floor. The three students who are not dropping the ball will have to watch closely to see how high the ball bounces and record the distance on the chart. This performance task provides students with cooperative group experience that includes independent reflection or questioning as follow-up. The task consists of a teacher direction sheet with sample performance criteria or exemplary respo

When students write a set of directions to inform readers about a process, they often must revise for clarity. This mini-lesson includes an example for teacher modeling and a prompt for guided and/or independent student practice. As a bonus it also includes 3 multiple choice questions and 1 short answer problem for test taking practice or comprehension assessment using the model set of directions.

This is a planning sheet to help teachers consider four essential questions in instructional planning– What do you want students to learn? How will you know they have learned it? What will you do for students that struggle? What will you do for students that demonstrate mastering of the target skills/strategies?

This is a planning sheet to help teachers consider all essential components of a balanced literacy reading/language arts block of instruction. Word knowledge, vocabulary, comprehension and writing are all addressed in this planning sheet.

Students place a sentence strip on their desk as a work map and select a root word transparency card. Children then experiment with the prefix and suffix cards to create expanded words.

Isabel Beck, Margaret McKeown, and Linda Kucan suggest that teachers select 3-4 tier two vocabulary words in read aloud books to discuss with students. In their book, Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction, they suggest that teachers prepare questions to guide the oral discussion of vocabulary to help students build deeper understanding of words. This sheet provides three words and sample questions that could be used with the book, Testing Miss Malarkey by Kevin O'Malley.

Students will work in their groups to find the possible combinations of bicycles and tricycles at the bike rally. This performance task provides students with cooperative group experience that includes independent reflection or questioning as follow-up. The task consists of a teacher direction sheet with sample performance criteria or exemplary responses and student activity sheets. When students are engaged in the performance tasks they should follow this basic format: • The teacher intro