Literacy Advisement

Words of the Day - 5/9-5/18

Download Words of the Week 5-9 to 5-18 Homophones - Homographs - Heteronyms (better know as homonyms) 

Words of the Day! April 25-May 8, 2012

Download Flipchart  Download 4-25 to 5-8 words of the week

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Download Power Point  Download 4-25 to 5-8 word of the day

Web Resources

Current Events

TweenTribune - Tween Tribune

USA Today - USA Today

Vocabulary Activities

Free Rice - Free Rice

Vocabulary Games - Vocabulary Games

 

Independent Reading Resources

Somebody Wanted But So - Use this strategy to summarize what you read!  Download Summarizing

Options for Sharing Download Options for sharing

Independent Reading Expectations Download Personal Choice – Independent Reading

Reflection Prompts - Download a print to use after an independent reading session.  Download Reflection cards -Literacy Advisement

Get Ready for Summer Reading - Check out Scholastic!

Check out this link for video book talks, trailers and author read alouds and videos!

Scholastic

Some Read-Aloud Chapters You May Have Missed!

Maze Runner by James Dashner  Download The Maze Runner

Double Dutch   by Sharon Draper  Download Double Dutch

Double Dutch (Chapter 2)   Download Double Dutch chapter 2

One Crazy Summer  by Rita Williams Garcia Download One Crazy Summer

Schooled by Gordan Korman - Chapters 1-3

Download Schooled     Download Schooled Chapter 2   Download Schooled Chapter 3

 

April 9th-17th Preparing for CRCT - 4-Peat

Word of the Day - 12 Power words!  Review the words and practice using the support slides.  Review 2 a day to get through all twelve words! Download CRCT words PP

Test Tips and Strategies - Play the PowerPoint and discuss other test tips and strategies.  Have students work in groups to create a test tip/strategy poster to display on classroom door or near literacy bulletin board near each grade level hallway. Download Top 10 strategies

Fix-Up Strategies - Use this PowerPoint to discuss effective fix-up strategies when reading new or unfamiliar text.  This PowerPoint has audio however requires a 'click' of mouse to move from one slide to the next. Download I Read It But I Don’t Get It - 2

Hooray for Diffendoofer Day - Monday April 16th - Students will watch the read-aloud on channel 5 - Download discussion topics and questions - Download Hooray for Diffendoofer Day

Literacy Feb. 13-24th

Words of the Day- The next few weeks the words related to Social Sciences.  Download the Power Point for the Flip Chart to your desktop for easy access each morning:

PowerPoint -Download Word of the day 2-13 to 2-24

Flip Chart - Download Word of the day 2-13 to 2-24

Read Aloud's - Use the chapters of Double Dutch and Harris and Me to practice good reader strategies of visualizing, questioning and summarizing.

Double Dutch by Sharon Draper

• Download Double Dutch
• Download Double Dutch chapter 2

Harris and Me by Gary Paulson

• Download Harris and Me Chapter 1
• Download Harris and Me 2

 

 

Vocabulary Review - February 10

Use the concentration game to review the words from the past 4 weeks. Download Concentration review for 2-10-12

Instructions: It’s a reverse concentration game.  Instead of uncovering the matching words, have the kids cover the word and its synonym.  To move the blue squares over the words, click on the arrow on the tool bar, and then on the square (s).

 

Word-of-the-Day - January 30-February 8th

Download the Power Point Download Word-of-day jan 30 - feb 8   to review a word-of-the-day every literacy period!