Kindergarten Fluency Folder | Weekly fluency practice for Kindergarten using word lists, word cards, and progress graphs. Students can improve their reading accuracy and pace using the provided materials, and teachers can use the word lists for assessments.

Kindergarten Fluency Folders

Hey, Kindergarten teachers… this one’s for YOU! One of my fabulous blog readers specifically requested a Daily Fluency product for her Kindergarteners. I agreed to help, and after some back-and-forth discussion in regard to format and what would be most helpful to include, I developed a resource with ready-to-print materials for creating your own year-long Kindergarten…

Exploring Non-Fiction Text Structures | Using iPad apps to explore and support student comprehension of informational texts.

Exploring Non-Fiction Text Structures Using iPads

Throughout the year, I’ve been trying to find ways to integrate my set of iPads into my small intervention groups. I’ve been finding great apps for my decoding/fluency groups, but not a ton for my comprehension groups; however, I recently discovered the (FREE) ReadWriteThink apps for mobile devices, and they’re amazing! These apps are perfect for…

Helping Students Understand Question Words | Literacy Resources Promoting Questioning Skills for Reading | Free Question Words Resource

Helping Students Understand Questions

I’ve been working on evidence-based questions with some of my RtI intervention groups…. and yikes. We didn’t even get to the response-writing part when many of my students hit a roadblock. Question words. They could come up with 101 “I wonder…” questions while reading, but when faced with a higher-level thinking question, they didn’t know…

Making inferences as "Reading Detectives" | Students will enjoy putting on their detective hats to make inferences and draw conclusions using clues from the text.

Reading Detectives: A Focus on Making Inferences

What Does it Mean to Make Inferences? Making inferences is when students draw conclusions from the text using the text clues and their background knowledge. Essentially, students are trying to figure out what the author doesn’t explicitly tell them in the text. It’s a higher-level thinking skill and involves “thinking beyond the text.” MsJordanReads Resource…