once I have looked at a progression of math, I will also look at Language Arts skills that I know we will need to practice in blocks and in between blocks. This is things like phonics, sight words, spelling words, readers and read-alouds. The vocabulary ...
This is a key third grade standard for English Language Arts. In order to support the achievement of these students, teachers need to incorporate interactive read alouds to help students develop the necessary comprehension skills.;Theories support the use of collaboration, scaffolding, and modeling ...
“According to experts who have studied children’s listening skills, it is a reasonable assertion that reading and listening skills begin to converge at about eighth grade. Until then, they usually listen on a higher level than they read on. Therefore, children canhearandunderstandstories that a...
I have written interactive, higher level thinking questions aligned with the common core to go with each chapter of popular classroom read alouds. These tri-folds will help to keep your students engaged as you read to them, and are a great, quick way to encourage important writing skills ...
The author examined the effectiveness of a vocabulary intervention that employed structured, supplemental story read-alouds and related oral-language activities. Within each of 7 Title I schools across 2 sites, 15 third-grade teachers were randomly assigned to either use the intervention (treatment ...
The study used quality children's literature, A Taste of Blackberries and crossing jordan for the read alouds and follow-up book discussions. Third-grade students wrote a pre-and post-discussion essay for the two texts before the read aloud was initiated and at the completion of each book. ...