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Reading SOS: How can I help my child read more smoothly? Reading with appropriate expression is a skill that develops over time as your child grows in confidence with their reading.
Writing SOS: What are some everyday things I can do to help my child’s writing skills? Literacy specialist Kyley Pulphus encourages parents to make writing fun and purposeful.
Reading SOS: What can I do at home to set my child up for success in reading and writing? Dr. Hannah Dostal, an expert in Deaf education and literacy, says it’s important to surround your child with reasons to read and write.
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.
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.
