Tag: Reading

Reading fluency is about more than just pace, accuracy, and smoothness. It is also about expression! I share my process for teaching expression in fluency in this blog post, which includes a discussion of how punctuation marks influence expression and fluency. Get all of the tips in this post!

Teaching Expression in Fluency

Recently I posted 8 Ideas to Build Fluency, but there is so much more to fluency than just reading at a good pace and accurately.

Today, more than ever, it's important for teachers to be utilizing best practices in their classrooms. This is especially true for reading, where the reading best practices have evolved quite a bit and take on a while new approach from the old practices. This post describes each approach and the differences between the two, so click through to read more.

Are You Implementing Reading Best Practices?

I would like to think that most classrooms have started migrating toward the 21st-century reading best practices, but that is not always the case. In

Do you hate the KWL chart? Me too! That's why I use this RAN Chart with every opportunity I get, because I think it's a much better nonfiction strategy! Click through to read how the RAN - Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction - chart works.

A Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction Strategy

I hate the KWL. I’m sorry if you are a huge fan of it, but any variation of it, I just hate. I don’t know

Do you have budding scientists in your upper elementary class? This blog post goes into detail on how you can use pictures to create scientists! This is an easy way to bring real-life science into the classroom. Click through to read more and download freebies!

Using Pictures to Create Scientists – With a Freebie!

Not too long ago, Kelly W. told me, “My students will be reading about Albert Einstein, and your pictures remind me of how he looked at

In search of ways to integrate more nonfiction into your class instruction? This blog post lists 10 ideas for bringing in more nonfiction texts and reading activities. Click through to learn more about how to integrate more nonfiction!

10 Ways to Integrate More Nonfiction into your Classroom

Common Core has required that we implement more nonfiction into our classroom. It’s so easy in elementary to focus on fiction texts, but sometimes it

I wanted my students to be exposed to many different types of nonfiction reading - especially with the common core standards requiring it. That's when I decided to create this reading challenge freebie to engage them into reading nonfiction more! Check out this reading idea for your elementary classroom!

A Nonfiction Reading Challenge (And A Freebie!)

I’m a Common Core school district and that meant more informational text. By 4th grade, students are expected to have 50% of their passages be nonfiction reading

A Picture Book Scoot

In my school district, on Read Across America day, we dedicate the entire afternoon to just dropping everything and reading. There are some students in