Q3 Week 2

Welcome to WEEK 3!  This week for our instructional highlight, I wanted to share this blogpost I found earlier this week.  It is all about teaching spelling!  Check it out below on the TPT Blog:

Are you teaching spelling the right way?  

By The Classroom Key

I love how the post is broken up into components such as visual, sound, meaning, & historical. Each component is filled with an explanation & visuals. The information provided will defiantly help you with DIFFERENTIATION.  

Here are over 300 ways to practice spelling on Pinterest! 

Check out this post on how differentiate our spelling lists from PeppyZestTeacher!

 Looking for some Spelling FUN?
 Check out 50 different activities to support spelling and word work in your classroom. 

Here are some FREE spelling sheets that will work with any list.  

You can even practice spelling on the smartboard!

I also love this iPhone Spelling Text and Spell from Tracy Clausen!

I hope you find something fun in this blogpost to help support spelling your classroom!

Happy Planning!

3Q Week 1 Instructional Strategies

Welcome to week 1 of 3rd quarter!  I wanted to share a SMORE that I put together for our monthly BTNT meeting.  We had a really good discussion about the book, Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites.  20 Instructional Strategies that Engage the Brain
Written by Marcia Tate.  

You can watch a video from Marcia below.  

You will also find many links in the SMORE that will help you engage the brain during instruction.  


Be sure to check out this Spotlight on Strategy link from Discovery ED.  This strategy helps students learn to summarize information and analyze it at a deeper level.  Click the image to download. 

I also made a Google Slide for you to use with your students.  It even has a video to go along with how to use it in class.  Click the image to make a copy of the file.  

I love the ideas in this blog post from The Thinker Builder.  It is filled with ideas to easily differentiate your large group.   

Check out this 5E Model of Instruction!

From Teach Like This

How many Es do meet in your lessons?

You can read more about the 5Es by clicking the image below.  

Kindergarten:

    

RI.K.9 With prompting and support, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures)

  

K.OA.3 Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4

+ 1)

First Grade:

  

RL.1.2. Retell familiar stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

 

NBT.6 Subtract multiples of 10 in the range 10-90 from multiples of 10 in the range 10-90 (positive or zero differences), using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used

Second Grade:

  

RI 2.5 Glossary/ Index/ Table of Contents

Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.

  

2.G.1 Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces.1 Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.

Third Grade:

  

RL.3.3 Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.

 

3.MD.8 Solve real world and mathematical problems involving perimeters of polygons, including finding the perimeter given the side lengths, finding an unknown side length, and exhibiting rectangles with the same perimeter and different area or with the same area and different perimeters.

PE Connection:

Building a Snowman PE Game

Art Connection:

Mitten Art

Music Connection:

Snowball Scoop Game

Happy Planning!

Week 9 Instructional Strategies & Ideas

Welcome Back to Week 9's instructional strategies & ideas. As you prepare for our end of quarter assessments, I thought I would put together some reading intervention strategies that may help support our students.

Below you will find lots of tips and blogposts to help you support your students with reading instruction.

I LOVE this...

Minds EYE Reading Strategy

From Cult of Pedagogy

Fluency Ideas:

       

  

Vocabulary Ideas:

 

 

Comprehension Ideas:

    

  

I hope you find these sites useful!
Have a great weekend!