Teaching Tools

Guided Reading Toolbox Materials

  • April 6, 2011, 7 p.m.
Get ready for guided reading groups! Here are the materials you will need to have on hand for successful group meetings.

Teaching Points for Guided Reading Levels

  • April 6, 2011, 7 p.m.
Each guided reading level has specific skills, behaviors, and prompts. Use this reference chart to target reading skills your students need to advance to the next level.

My Reading List

  • April 6, 2011, 7 p.m.
Student need to read widely and spend time reading independent level texts. This reading list can be used to keep a running list of texts read independently. Students will record the title and author. When the text is completed, students write the date in the completed column. Students may abandon a text, but if there is a pattern of abandoning texts often, the teacher should conference with the student about how to pick a just-right text.

Data Meeting Notes Chart

  • April 6, 2011, 7 p.m.
Data teams need to record notes, ideas, and the resulting action plan during meetings. Use this chart to guide your reflections on student data and make action plans for using the data to accelerate student achievement.

Semantic Feature Analysis

  • April 5, 2011, 7 p.m.
Semantic Feature Analysis is a vocabulary strategy that is used to help students identify common characteristics of ideas or characters. Students identify key criteria and compare characters, stories, or types of things in science, math, and social studies. This comparison can be used to create a definition for each term or character. A sample of the semantic feature chart with directions to help students classify and compare key vocabulary terms.

Word Sort Card: compound words, consonant digraphs and blends, final stable syllables

  • April 5, 2011, 7 p.m.
This set of word cards is appropriate for students who read independently on a third grade level (DRA 28-38). You can use this set to assess your students' decoding knowledge and to assess if the students use knowledge of letter patterns to read unfamiliar words.

Vocabulary Games

  • April 5, 2011, 7 p.m.
Vocabulary games that can be used in reading, math, science, math, social studies, art, or music class. The games are on printable index cards so that you can create a toolbox of games to play in your classroom.

Math Instruction Kit

  • April 5, 2011, 7 p.m.
A collection of math resources. Includes a sample daily schedule, a set of journaling questions, warm up ideas, and center actives.

Homework Tool Kit

  • April 5, 2011, 7 p.m.
A collection of resources for increasing homework achievement. Includes a guide to homework study groups and parents, along with a sample homework contract.

37 Word Families Cards Set 2

  • April 5, 2011, 7 p.m.
There are 37 common word families. This set contains word families with long vowel and vowel variant families. Print, laminate, and cut out these cards and use with the consonant cards to blend onsets and rimes.