Let's Talk Shop and Freebies

 Everyone has their own style of managing Reading Workshop. I'm linking up with Ideas By Jivey to share Reading Workshop ideas. I use Reading Workshop as an extension of my core reading instruction. I reinforce the skill taught during core instruction through guided reading. Along with the skill , I concentrate on applying reading strategies. While I meet with small groups, the other children are buddy reading or independent reading. I end each workshop, which runs about 30-40 minutes, with a  book share. The kids really like this part of reading workshop and are interested in what everyone is reading. My Reading Workshop tickets can be part of book share.( Click to read the post about this)
                                                                             
                                                                      

     Right now my children are doing book club reading during reading workshop and are applying the strategies practiced all year. My book clubs are like literature circles where each child has a job they're responsible for.  You can click below to get an anchor page, an organizer, and rubric for the Predicting Strategy that is part of my reading bundle. I use this pack of organizers and assessments during reading workshop a lot.

 I hope you enjoy the prediction preview and find it useful. :)

Fossils, Flashbacks, and Freebies

  Happy Friday!! I'm linking up with  Doodle Bugs, Teaching Madness, and TBA to end the week.

Here are my flashbacks and randoms from the week.......

1. We began Book Clubs this week during Reading Workshop. The kids were so excited. We have a Magic Tree House Club and an A-Z Mysteries Club.The are applying the Good Reader strategies we've been practicing all year using resources from my Monsters Reading Bundle. You can click to read the post about this. 

2. Sweet! Skittles were the topic of our graphs The kids collected data on colors of  Skittles and graphed the results by creating a bar graph.

3. Suffix Hunting...after being inside for recess all week due to the weather, my troops were getting restless. I armed the troops with notebooks and pencils and set out into the hallway on a suffix hunt. We made a class chart after the hunt listing all the words and underlined the base words. In groups, they came up with meanings for each word using the affix as a clue. 

4. Marvelous Math pinning...I've created a board on Pinterest for math resources and ideas. Fellow educators and pinners contribute to the board. If you need some ideas for math check it out. I've already used many ideas from it. :)

5. My little paleontologists put together dinosaur skeletons and named their fossils. I found the printable skeleton at Sparkle Box. We then made a word bank of science terms we learned from our fossil readings in science. The children wrote newspaper articles about their "discoveries" using words from the word bank. My freebie is the organizer, checklist, and article template for this writing. Click below to download. I am so pleased with how well they wrote their articles. One of my students included more nonfiction text features than I required. :)

                                           Fossil Discovery Writing Freebie

Monster Reading Strategies

     Saying I'm tired after the first day back from break is an understatement! I had a good first day back with my kiddos though. We picked right up where we left off and hit the ground running.
  I've been preparing my kids all year during guided reading to actively practice good reading strategies. They will soon be ready to start book clubs ( I run them a lot like literature circles).
    I created monster themed resources for the children to use and monitor their reading. My freebie for Manic Monday is one of the after reading activities from my Monster Themed Reading Bundle.

Just click on the picture below to download. Enjoy!