by imavexadmin | Oct 5, 2018 | [Writing]
Learning Center Subscribe to Ask Smekens Filter by Category: All Reading Reader's Workshop Management Comprehension Planning Comprehension Lessons Standardized Reading Assessments Text Selection Annotating & Note-Taking Writing About Reading Literacy Stations...
by imavexadmin | Sep 28, 2018 | [Writing]
Track Main Ideas and Details within a Dissected Web Sept 28, 2018 | [Writing] Using a Storyboard to pre-write the chronological details of a story works well. However, this same graphic organizer won’t work for every writing task. In fact, the web graphic...
by imavexadmin | Sep 24, 2018 | [Writing]
Adapt the Storyboard to Fit All Chronological Texts Sept 24, 2018 | [Writing] When engaged in a narrative writing unit, the basic storyboard is a universal pre-writing tool. It accounts for beginning, middle, and end and goes in a chronological order, making it...
by imavexadmin | Apr 17, 2017 | [Reading]
Students’ oral and written summaries need to match the same text structure of the passage. Before asking students to generate a summary based on reading, identify the text’s organizational pattern by looking at its transition words. Summaries should...
by imavexadmin | Mar 18, 2016 | [Reading]
Analyzing and annotating text used to be a reading strategy reserved for collegiate reading. However, this expectation has trickled down into the elementary classroom with the adoption of the more rigorous College and Career-Ready Standards. In the intermediate...
