Showing posts with label close reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label close reading. Show all posts
Thursday
Tuesday
Synthesizing Sources to Create Brochures for the Underworld!
Our last "creative" 8th grade project before watching The Odyssey was to take multiple reference sources describing the underworld and make a travel brochure:
Thursday
Unpacking Common Core: 6th Grade Reading
As the end of April winds down, my mind is already on next year and all the things I plan to improve! Starting with organization...
Tuesday
Great Daily News Site: Lexiles included!!
FREE to join and set up classes. You can alter the lexile of the articles to meet your students' needs :)
Thursday
Wednesday
Tuesday
Successful Teaching Moment
8 weeks left of the school year and I feel that my kids have gotten the hang of independent annotation. Literally my only instruction: read and annotate!
Friday
Annotating = Taking Notes; Not Just Underlining and Highlighting
8th grade example of independent annotation:
"aNOTEtation" is our key phrase to remind ourselves that close reading and annotating is not just underlining and highlighting a page. Making it colorful does not show a reader's understanding!
Wednesday
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