I have used War Comes to Willy Freeman, Sarah Bishop, Johnny Tremain, and My
Brother Sam is Dead with 8th graders. My students enjoyed War Comes to
Willy Freeman the most, and they liked My Brother Sam is Dead. The other two
were not their favorites, but as usual, it depends on the
Hi Michelle!
Here is a resource that I think will help you:
http://www.jc-schools.net/tutorials/vocab/strategies.html
Along with this website you should read Building Academic Vocabulary by
Marzaon and Pickering. http://shop.ascd.org/productdisplay.cfm?productid=105153
Hi,
I'm looking for some higher level questions or a story map of some kind for
Brave Irene by William Steig.
Thanks,
Daryl M
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Does anyone have recommendations for particular commercial games or
activities that are good for independent or partner work for kids who need
practice
with phonics/word families? I have Words Their Way and Four Blocks and a bunch
of other books that suggest activities I could make, but
I think this book would make a good book study for this summer. I just
bought it as I was told she (Isabel Beck) had helped with the Scott Foresman
Vocabulary instruction.
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From: Stephanie Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies
Hi,
I teach 2nd grade also :)
I just bought Evan Moore's Take it to your seat phonics centers for grades
1-2 and I plan on buying the same book for grades 2-3 for the second half of
the school year. All you have to do is cut them out and laminate- you don't
have a laminator so try using clear
I have just added the following to our TEACHING TOOLS page at:
www.readinglady.com/mosaic/tools/tools.htm
Thanks go out to Carolyn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) for sharing all these files
with us! Amazing
*Remember you have to hit REFRESH/RELOAD when new files are added to see the
current page.
At
If you need to laminate things, ask at your teacher store, or at Staples,
Office Depot, etc. The ones near me offer laminating rather inexpensively. One
of the local colleges also has a laminator they allow teachers to use for a
very small fee.
I taught second grade for three years prior
