So a while ago I posted about Guided Reading. I always meant to have a follow up post, but somehow, never got back to it. This post is meant to discuss guided reading strategies and tips to help your readers become strong and independent.  Small Group Instruction or Guided Reading You will often hear …
Reading Intervention in Upper Elementary  Hey Friends! This last year, I switched to fourth grade. My group of students were on a variety of reading abilities. How I did ran my reading intervention groups for fourth grade  literally made all of the difference in my students progress. During this time, it’s important to show how …
Hey friends! A few of my friends have asked me about Guided Reading  Activities I use in my classroom. Teachers also wondered why I think it is a necessity to any ELEMENTARY Classroom. Yes, I just said Elementary. That means Kindergarten through Fifth Grade can use these guided reading activities. Guided reading activities are teaching …
Hey Friends! Sometimes in the crazy chaos life world of the classroom we forget the purpose of why we are there. Is it to make our students have the most AR points in the school? Is it to get the best prize in the school? No. The reason the students are there is to develop …
Hey friends! I wanted to share with you a few tricks I’ve used over the years. Sometimes everything cannot be colored ink and graphics. Sometimes you just need simple, but effective ideas. These classroom diy tips will help your streamline your guided reading instruction. One thing I always keep in my binder are these little …
 Hey! I wanted to share with you some different strategies we used this past year for reading intervention. We’ve been working to create a series of Reading Intervention Binders to help our teachers with reading intervention. There are SO many strategies and ways to do intervention, but it makes it so much easier having a …
Reading Intervention Activities Hey friends! Are you tired of searching high and low for reading intervention strategies for your struggling readers? I was too!  Reading Intervention Tips  The question we hear so much is, where do I start with my  reading intervention program? The answer is simple: assessments. Reading intervention must start with …
Hey friends! Reading intervention has ALWAYS been a large part of our day, but I feel like in the last 3-4 years, it’s become so much more. General education teachers are now as skilled as reading specialists in some areas! We have so much thrown on us that we pick up and learn different strategies …
Problem and Solution Literacy Activities Let me dive on into the skills we’ve been working on! We finished out our Author’s Purpose week and moved right on into Problem and Solution!!! Problem and Solution is always so much fun! When teaching text structure, I always teach problem and solution first. I love it when students create their own …
Hey Friends!! Today, I am posting about how to help your students that struggle in reading. These guided reading tips for teachers will help your students become more independent readers and thinkers. Furthermore, I am linking up with my sweet friend Jen from The Teacher’s Cauldron!!! Jen talks a lot about the tools she uses …
Hey! Today we are chatting all about Guided Reading. Guided Reading for struggling readers is one of the most difficult parts about being a classroom teacher. Guided Reading Tip for Struggling Readers #1 Each and EVERY Child learns differently. So we have to teach each child the way they learn. The best  way I have …