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Great Resources for Busy Teachers
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Reading Workshop
Welcome to Teaching eVentures Reading Workshop. Each link will take you to a new page with a list of picture books for teaching a reading skill or strategy. We've added to our list and enhanced the information to include lots of extra goodies to help you in the classroom. Each selected text includes the reading level, story treasure (a small item to give children as a memory helper for retelling the story), teaching suggestion, real world and cross-curricular connections, and the author's website (if available). Save this page to your favorites. We plan to add more books and teaching ideas in the future. *Please note: All of the books are listed for each category, but we are still working on "filling in the content blanks". Please be patient with us as we continue to update the content.
Students should make connections from the text they read to themselves, other texts, and the real world. We have annotated our book list and added additional resources and links.
Students make, adjust, and confirm predictions before, during, and after reading. Predictions motivates students to continue reading for a purpose, and helps them to make sense of the text.
Students ask questions throughout reading. They make predictions and draw conclusions based on their questions and answers. Asking questions helps students to make sense of the text.
Students make mental pictures in their minds of the text (like a movie) as they are reading.
Students make inferences by using text clues and their own background knowledge to "read between the lines" in order to understand what is beyond the literal text.
Sequence of Events and Plot
Students recognize the sequence of events that occurs in a story, and retell those events orally, in writing, through dramatization, or through the use of visual manipulatives. As students grown in their understanding of text structures they can be introduced to plot structure.
Students identify and relate to a character's traits (personality traits) and feelings.
Students identify and visualize the time and place the story takes place.
Students determine meaning of unknown words using context clues.
Students are able to identify and relate to the character's (or person's) point of view.
A literary device giving clues as to what comes next. Students identify the device and use it to make predictions.
Students identify cause and effect relationships that occur in the text.
Students identify the main idea (what the text is mostly about) of the text.
Determine Importance (nonfiction)
Students determine what is important and not important while reading (or researching) nonfiction text. They learn to filter through the text to get to the main ideas and key concepts.
Teaching Nonfiction
Teachers should not limit teaching nonfiction to books. Children's magazines offer a wealth of well written texts useful for teaching important reading skills as strategies such as determining importance, main idea, cause and effect, sequence of events, summarization, reading charts and graphs, and context clues. The following magazines are some of the best available.
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