The Literacy Garden

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📕📖📗 Teaching Citing Text Evidence is Easy, When Students Use Strategy

I recently had a heart-to-heart with a student struggling on his reading comprehension assessments. Despite his ability to decode words, his comprehension score was surprisingly low. ME: "Jake, I am curious how you came up with this answer. Can you tell me how you figured it out?" STUDENT: (shrugs shoulders) ME: "Well, did you try to remember the answer, or did you look back in the story for the answer?" STUDENT: "I tried to remember." Sound familiar? It can be hard to get students to look...

7 months ago • 1 min read

No Name Papers No More! A Simple Solution to Save Your Sanity

No Names No More! For years I have been frustrated by the chronic problem of students handing in work without their name or number on it. I would hold up the paper and ask "Who's is this?" It was such a time waster. Of course, no one recognized their work. Worse was when there were multiple no-name papers! Fast forward to this solution :) Some clothespins and a letter holder transformed this problem. CLICK Here to Learn How to Implement This Have You Tried Using Mentor Sentences to Improve...

8 months ago • 1 min read

🌎♻🌹🐞Active Activities for Spring Fever

Earth Day Activities Wondering what your class can do for Earth Day? To find out their thoughts, begin with some open-ended questions like: What are some things you can recycle? What is littering? What happens when rain can't go into the ground? Is there something you reuse? (water bottles, lunchboxes, scrap paper) Learn more about plastic pollution with this easy-to-print and use reader. Available at my TpT Store. It also comes with comprehension questions. You can mix science into your ELA...

12 months ago • 1 min read