Teaching Tools
Everybody Read To (ERT)… Prompt Cards
Everybody Read To... Prompt Cards. Print, laminate, and cut apart these cards. I use them as a prompt for giving students a purpose for reading a specific section of a text. These are great during guided reading groups when you want the students to read up to a specific part of the text. Using an ERT card, you can help the students focus their meta-cognition while reading and responding.Teaching Points for Guided Reading Levels
Each guided reading level has specific skills, behaviors, and prompts. Use this reference chart to target reading skills your students need to advance to the next level.My Reading List
Student need to read widely and spend time reading independent level texts. This reading list can be used to keep a running list of texts read independently. Students will record the title and author. When the text is completed, students write the date in the completed column. Students may abandon a text, but if there is a pattern of abandoning texts often, the teacher should conference with the student about how to pick a just-right text.Guided Reading Toolbox Materials
Get ready for guided reading groups! Here are the materials you will need to have on hand for successful group meetings.How to Give a Book Talk
Book talks are quick (1 minute) book reports in which a student does a brief advertisement for a book he/she has read lately. Make your class goal to have a least 2 book talks per day.Word Sort Card: compound words, consonant digraphs and blends, final stable syllables
This set of word cards is appropriate for students who read independently on a third grade level (DRA 28-38). You can use this set to assess your students' decoding knowledge and to assess if the students use knowledge of letter patterns to read unfamiliar words.Semantic Feature Analysis
Semantic Feature Analysis is a vocabulary strategy that is used to help students identify common characteristics of ideas or characters. Students identify key criteria and compare characters, stories, or types of things in science, math, and social studies. This comparison can be used to create a definition for each term or character. A sample of the semantic feature chart with directions to help students classify and compare key vocabulary terms.Vocabulary Games
Vocabulary games that can be used in reading, math, science, math, social studies, art, or music class. The games are on printable index cards so that you can create a toolbox of games to play in your classroom.Math Instruction Kit
A collection of math resources. Includes a sample daily schedule, a set of journaling questions, warm up ideas, and center actives.Homework Tool Kit
A collection of resources for increasing homework achievement. Includes a guide to homework study groups and parents, along with a sample homework contract.Categories
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