Trading cards are a fun way for students to show what they know! If you have access to iPads in the classroom, check out this great activity for making your own trading cards. How to Make Your Own Trading Cards Step 1 Download the Trading Cards app from ReadWriteThink! Step 2 After the app is downloaded to each iPad,…
A few weeks ago, I came across a blog post from Grade ONEderful about students writing “Goodbye, Hello” poems. She completed this writing activity with her first graders, but you could really integrate this activity with any grade-level. I decided to take it one step farther and use Pic Collage for the students to publish their poetry. I’ve…
For those of you who love my Daily Fluency collection, I’ve developed a Daily Phonics series to help students practice identifying sounds and word patterns. This series of resources is perfect for any group of elementary students who need a little extra support with decoding and phonics. My RTI decoding and fluency students love this…
Poetry is the perfect ingredient for building fluency, so one way to celebrate National Poetry Month is by turning “Poetry Month” into “Fluency Month!” Students love poetry and they love performing, so think about integrating activities that would combine the two with a fluency focus. The Performing Poetry strategy from ReadWriteThink is perfect for this! Each week, you can introduce a…
For most of my students, summarizing is a challenge, especially when it comes to identifying key details and boiling our summaries down to the most important information. More often than not, the text summaries students write are actually text retells, and they lose focus of what’s important. So how do students “boil it down,” and…
As with most educational technology, it’s all about finding the perfect balance. I want my students to interact with fun technology, but I don’t want the technology to take away from the focus of my lesson. My goal is to integrate technology effectively, with the purpose of enhancing my lessons and motivating my students. As…
