Master Teacher lessons
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We can use text clues and schema to help us visualize what is happening in a poem.
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We can comprehend what we read if we understand the meaning of the words that are used.
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Students give and opinion and validate it.
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This is an introductory lesson to learning who is speaking in a story.
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This lesson can seem like a review for many students, but it can be very important to review a strategy that students should be trying to do automatically. This lesson feels easy for students and more fun because of how high their confidence is.
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Students can spell and identify the letters in their names.
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Change a letter – make a new word.
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Sight word acquisition is an important building block in the construction of a child's ability to read. Kindergarteners need practice to learn sight words. This lesson provides them with a fun way to learn new words.
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Other versions of a popular story are so fun to read aloud. In this case we use a different story to compare versions and explore how an author uses figurative language in their books. Students will begin to practice slowing down for figurative language.
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This is another lesson for students to determine a character's point of view from in a complex text.
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Using reading strategies together helps students learn that we often use more than one strategy at a time to decode unknown words. Crosschecking is a strategy where students use their use of sounds and meaning to determine if they are correct.
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Knowing the relationship between written letters and spoken sounds will help children recognize words accurately and automatically. In this lesson, children practice matching letters with initial sounds.
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One way to quickly see improvement in students' reading fluency is to practice using short texts, such a poems. Students practice with a partner and observe how their fluency improves after each read.
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Sometimes the lessons on strategies taught to the whole class are not enough. During Daily 5, or Reading Intervention, I can pull a reading strategy group to help specific students learn and practice a needed strategy for reading.
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Kindergarteners write for many purposes. In this lesson, Kindergarteners learn that it is important to include recipe steps in order so the applesauce comes out just right!
