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Fun with Phonemes One family in Raleigh, North Carolina, shows how playing word and rhyming games puts their child on the road to reading success.
Reading SOS: Can parents help a third grader with comprehension? Third grade teacher Chelsey Short shares simple ideas to help your child understand what they read.
Writing SOS: My child resists writing down her imaginative ideas. Kyley Pulphus suggests a few ways for parents to encourage their children to find comfort and expression in writing.
Teaching Strategies for Using Summarizing for Comprehension : Reading Lessons Summarizing is a student’s ability to be able to identify the main idea and supporting details with a particular work.
Re-Enacting Procedures: Building the Foundation for Procedural Writing Re-enacting a procedure is a great way to help students understand effective procedural writing.
Grade K 2: Summarization Strategies Learn about K-2 summarization strategies including the Summary Glove, the Retelling Rope, and the Group Retelling Game.
Greedy Cat: Retelling a Story Sequence to Build Comprehension Students build skills essential to reading comprehension by retelling a story. Visit LitDiet.org to view to view the full lesson plan.
Starring Details: Helping Writers Revise by Adding Details Discussing different strategies to revise written work and modeling how to add detail to the middle of a piece of writing helps students develop writing fluency to ease the process of composition.
Bubble Gum Letters: A Persuasive Writing Activity Students brainstorm ideas and then write convincing letters to the principal to try to get permission for a “Bubble Gum” science project.
Writing Poems Lynn Reichle and her second-grade students go on a writing adventure called the Writers’ Workshop.
