Reading Activities

  • Visualizing Tubes: A Free Activity for Introducing Visualization

    This year, I’ve been working to integrate multiple subjects into our daily activities.  Today, I want to quickly share a fun activity that is perfect for both reading and writing.  Our reading strategy this week is visualization, and we began writing personal narratives last week.  I wanted an activity that would introduce visualization, yet give […]

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  • If the Shoe Fits…{An Inference Activity FREEBIE}

    Making inferences is such a challenge for some of my students.  Better yet, many students can make an inference, but they struggle to support their inference with details, facts, or background knowledge.  Today, we did a fun activity to begin making inferences and supporting them with evidence. While my students were at special, I hid […]

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  • Plot Activity: FREE Vocabulary Cards for Graphic Organizer

    My students and I have been reading the book Ungifted over the last several weeks.  It is an absolutely PERFECT read aloud for fifth-grade students.  It has allowed me to teach so many reading skills in one text, plus my kids fell in love with the main character.  Now that we are finished, I wanted […]

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  • 3-2-1 Chart: A Free Nonfiction Reading Center

    3-2-1 Chart: A Free Nonfiction Reading Center This year, my teaching partner and I are really switching up our reading block.  We’re working on our own, made up version of the Daily Five.  So far, we are in LOVE! In the Daily Five, students would typically read with someone as part of their daily routine. […]

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  • Picture of the Day! #classroomstaple

    Each morning, I begin my day with Hello Literacy’s Picture of the Day.  It is seriously #classroomstaple.  It is a necessity for any classroom and kids of all ages can benefit from its daily use. Each morning, I display an image on my Promethean Board for my students to discuss.  At the beginning of the […]

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