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.
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.
Data teams need to record notes, ideas, and the resulting action plan during meetings. Use this chart to guide your reflections on student data and make action plans for using the data to accelerate student achievement.
This set of word cards is appropriate for use with students who read independently above a third grade level (DRA38-60). Students can sort words into groups by spelling rule or similar pattern. Students should be able to provide additional words that would follow the rule or pattern.
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.
A collection of resources for increasing homework achievement. Includes a guide to homework study groups and parents, along with a sample homework contract.
There are 37 common word families. This set contains word families with long vowel and vowel variant families. Print, laminate, and cut out these cards and use with the consonant cards to blend onsets and rimes.
There are 37 common word families. If students can read these word families, they can read more than 500 other words containing these patterns. This set contains the short vowel families. Print, laminate, and cut-out the word family cards. You can use the consonant cards to blend onsets and rimes to form real and nonsense words.