I made this phonological awareness chart to be able to clearly see all the parts it makes up. Many children have a weakness in decoding in the early grades because a lot of the programs schools use go straight into letter sounds and forming words. Many children are missing this phonological piece. There are many games and activities that can be done at home to give your child these skills.
Mrs. K ♥
I am starting to finish up non-fiction summaries with my 6th graders. We have been reading the passage, Lights! Camera! Invention by John James. This passage is all about Thomas Edison and the inventions he has made. It’s really engaging and the sixth graders love when we read this passage. We have been discussing what goes into writing a non-fiction summary and using a graphic organizer to help us out before we begin to write.
After we finish this strategy, we will be moving on to text evidence. I had found a great anchor chart on another blog, but re-wrote the sentences and changed some things around to my liking. I also made my own text evidence charts to go along with it that you can find on my TpT store if you’re interested!
Mrs. K ♥
I made four worksheets for Read Across America, celebrating Dr. Seuss’ birthday this March! I took four of his books:
Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?
There’s a Wocket in my Pocket
One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish
Green Eggs and Ham
I took words out of the first couple of pages of each of the books and left blanks for the children to be creative and come up with their own Dr. Seuss writing to go along with the book of their choice. This wasn’t fully my idea at all. My wonderful partner actually came up with the idea, I just created the sheets (that you can find on my TpT store).
Enjoy!
Mrs. K ♥
I finally finished!!!! Please see my TpT posting on Graphic Organizers/Video Shorts to go along with it.
My 6th graders LOVE these. Whenever I start a new comprehension strategy I always introduce it with a Pixar Video Short to go along with the strategy we will be discussing. While they are watching the Video Short, they take notes on the graphic organizer and we discuss it in depth after.
This really makes them look at it differently and breaks up the monotonous of just reading a passage or book and learning that strategy. They then will know how to apply it to the different text types that we do with that strategy.
Enjoy!
Mrs. K ♥
I found something a while back on the internet about Pixar Video Shorts on Youtube and graphic organizers to go along with them to practice different comprehensions strategies. I realized the graphic organizers weren’t what I wanted/not good enough, and some of the video shorts didn’t work either.
I complied a list of my own and made the graphic organizers to go along with it I am in the process of making them and they will be available on TpT shortly! Stay tuned!
Here is an example….
Mrs. K ♥
Exit tickets can be found on my TpT site! I print them in color, laminate, place Velcro on the back and use them over and over again!
Enjoy! Hope they come in handy.
Summary Outline – TpT – Check out my teacher made worksheet on TpT for summarizing. I use this with my little ones when learning how to figure out what happened first, next, then & last. This is a good, basic graphic organizer before writing a paragraph. Hope you enjoy it!
Mrs. K ♥
The children did a writing activity where they discussed their favorite Christmas book. Look…. We even have REAL Christmas lights on the board! How neat?!?!?! 
These are the letter stamps I mentioned earlier that are great for practicing trick/sight words with! They are so much fun for the little ones! Just purchased them at AC Moore alon
g with cookie sheets for my magnetic letters! It’s spring now time for some more fun in the reading class and preparing for our Bookworm Club tutoring this summer!
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