For Teachers Who Use Reading Street

        
Retelling An Egg is An Egg

 

Retelling

I’ve been thinking of fun and innovative ways to get my students involved in retelling(My school system uses Reading Street).

This year my own personal action research involves Comprehension Strategies, and retelling is very important  in comprehending text. So I’m thinking about creating a retelling station with activities students can use during Reading Workshop. This is going to be one of my “Have To” weekly assignments all students would have to complete. The first couple of times I’ll work with my students when they come for small group reading instruction on this task. Then I will release responsibility to them.

Directions for Teachers: Laminate the TV mat and the retelling pictures. Cut out the retelling pictures. Make copies of the retelling sheet. I plan to place the activity in a basket labeled “Weekly “Have To” Comprehension Assignment”.

For teachers who use Reading Street I hope you find these useful. I’ve completed all stories for Unit 3  and will work fast to complete the rest of the units(If you would find this type of activity useful). Please let me know your thoughts, would this activity work in your classroom?

 

     

          
Retelling Ruby in Her Own Time

 

 

        
Retelling Jan's New Home

 

 

        
Retelling Frog and Toad

 

            
Retelling I'm a Caterpillar

 

         
Retelling Where Are My Animal Friends

 

Merry Christmas

Ms. Arnold

Three Little Pigs Literature Study Pt.2

This past week we finished up our literature study of Three Three Little Pigs. On Monday the weekly graph was “Which Three Little Pig Story Was Your Favorite Last Week?” Below is a picture of our graph results.

 

Here is our finished story element chart on some of the books we read during our study.

 

How to Trick a Wolf

As a writing/art activity we completed a Cut and Create pig and the students wrote about how they would trick the wolf in the story.

 

          

          

 

Vegetable Soup

During math time the students played Three Little Pigs Vegetable Soup”. They rolled two dice together, added the numbers then collected the ingredient to go into their soup. The winner is the first person to collect all their ingredients. I’ve seen this idea on many blogs and created one to accompany our lit study. I forgot to take pictures of the kids playing it.

           

 

Click here for a copy of Vegetable Soup

 

We had a great time with this study. It really helped the students comprehension. I think I’ll incorporate more literature studies in the coming year, along with the non-fiction units of study I have planned.

Have a great week!

Thanksgiving Fun

This week was hectic. It was American Education Week and there were lots of activities going on. But we did manage to get quite a bit done.
Towards the beginning of the week we worked on Thanksgiving stories. I found the stickers at my trusty Hobby Lobby location. The students did a great job on these.

Do You Like Turkey

This week we also did another round of graphs. Our question was “Do You Like Turkey?” We completed three graphs and the students completed a graph sheet to go along with our big class graphs.



It’s hard to see the picture below. But the sheet is a compilation of all the graphs we completed this week.

Turkey Addition

During math time we created and completed these addition turkeys. The students enjoyed creating their own addition sentences, cutting and creating these wonderful turkeys.



These are turkey addition and subtraction problems. Students completed the story frames, created both an addition and subtraction sentence and illustrated for both.

Thanksgiving With Our Families

During Writing workshop I took small groups of students and we completed this story frame about spending Thanksgiving with our families. I believe reading and writing are so closely connected. The more a student writes the better reader they will become and vice versa. I think they did a fantastic job.

Life in the Forest

Whew! Well I guess we did get a lot done this week. Our story this week was Life in the Forest. As a writing extension about the story the students wrote what they learned about animals that live in the forest.

We even completed Circle Maps about forest animals.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Halloween Writing

Halloween House

A few weeks ago I found Halloween and Fall Sticker sets at Hobby Lobby. My students love writing with stickers. During writing workshop I took a group of students each day and we completed a writing frame about a black cat and a Halloween House. I think they came out really good.




Here are the Fall Sticker stories. I pulled a few students each day for a guided writing activity. Below the Fall stories are our Cut and Create Acorns.