Teaching Tipster: Teaching Questioning to Improve Comprehension
After working with my students with this reciprocal teaching framework for the past month, I realized that they need a lot more expli...
5 Finger Retell (summarizing strategy)
Many kids have a hard time retelling/summarizing a passage or story. This simple hand trick helps them tell only the most important parts of the story. One teacher I know keeps these …
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Amy Lemons provides teaching tips and resources for teachers of elementary school students with access to a free resource library.
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Recount Writing
Free recount writing posters and resources for classrooms, teachers and parents.
Back Into It
Most teacher sin my state of Australia go back into the classroom tomorrow after a 2 week Autumn break - we call our breaks from school 'holidays'. I have made this proforma for planning a 'holiday recount'. Students can plan their ideas on it before they write. I have provided a nice worksheet for writing the good copy! \ You can grab both for FREE HERE - from google drive! I plan writing lines, so that students write in the solid lines and use the dotted lines for top/tail guides. I have…
Year 1 Recount Writing Mini Unit: 10 Writing Lesson Plans - Australian Curriculum Lessons
Summary: This two week unit of work with lesson plans for a year one classroom and is focused on the text form of recount, with these lessons illustrating to students how to construct a recount. My first two lessons have the essence of a retell text type. Students are not retelling the story, I am […]
5 finger retell. Could draw round hand and then have this in on the table when writing instructions or a recount
Recount writing anchor charts in first grade (orange-when, blue-who, pink-what, green-where, yellow-why, red-feelings sentence). Co-created with students.
The 5 Ws and How. Students used color coded post its to place on the sign when reading different stories.
Questioning Posters *FREEBIE*
A pack of questioning posters to help your kiddos remember which question words to use and when! I have included a poster for: *who *what *where *when *why *how Hang these in your room and the kids can refer to them like anchor charts when using questioning words/phrases. Please let me know how m...
Recount Writing Assessment
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Recount writing about swimming lessons....plus art to match
The "Kindergarten" Writing Process
I am very excited to be a guest blogger here on Kindergarten Lifestyle. I love Jeannie's blog and I think the concept of guest blogging is fantastic, as it gives bloggers an opportunity to share their ideas and activities with a bigger audience. I enjoy talking, whether it is face-to-face or through blogging, and I love knowing that people are interested in what I have to say. I hope that you enjoy my post today. I will be sharing photos of my writing classroom and I will include…