Category: Reading Blog Posts

5 Engaging Compare and Contrast Anchor Charts

Comparing and contrasting are important skills for students to learn. Not only will these skills be pertinent in reading fiction and nonfiction text, but they

The 6 Best Books to Teach Point of View

Point of view is a big standard to cover! This standard can be tricky if you don’t have the right materials. It is important to

Best Books for Compare and Contrast (Fiction)

Teaching students to compare and contrast is an important cross-curricular skill. Furthermore, the application of this skill, specifically to fiction stories, can greatly improve a

3 Main Topic and Main Idea Virtual Teaching Ideas

This blog post highlights the newest video from my weekly YouTube series. This is the third installment of Teaching Tips in 12 Minutes or Less!

Tips for Virtual Text Features Activities

Whether you’re teaching virtually, or just looking for engaging digital ideas to teach text features, you’re in luck! This blog post highlights a video I

All About EVENTS- Teaching Events to Students

For today’s Story Elements Study, we are going to focus on teaching events. If you are interested in ideas for teaching events in your elementary

All About SETTING- Story Elements Study

In this Story Elements Study, we are going to take a look at teaching setting. Keep reading for lesson ideas, activities, mentor texts, and more!

All About CHARACTERS- Story Elements Study

Story elements are an important part of your literature skill curriculum. We are going to be taking a closer look at the parts of story

Teaching ELA Mini Lessons Virtually

I have received lots of questions about how to use my ELA mini lessons in a distance learning environment. Teachers are finding themselves teaching virtually

Teaching Nonfiction Skills in Kindergarten

This blog post focuses on teaching Kindergarten informational text skills. Informational text is nonfiction and allows students to learn more about types of text, asking

Free Folding Paper Activities for ELA

ELA can be a tough subject to teach because there are so many pieces within it. It can take lots of lesson planning, resource purchasing,

Practice Comprehension with Task Cards

Keeping students engaged in their learning is one of our biggest goals as teachers. In this post, we will discuss how to keep your students

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