Reading is thinking

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Hey there! Jen Bradshaw here from TeacherKARMA.com Teachers, can you believe that you actually have to tell your students to THINK WHILE THEY READ? Reading is Thinking Resource has the perfect anchor chart for working on: predict infer visualize make connections question the text summarize Grab your FREEBIE over at Teacher KARMA. Best wishes! Jen Bradshaw You Might ... Read More about READing is THINKing – Comprehension Anchor Chart

I first fell in love with interactive notebooks when I was student teaching at a private international school in South America. My host...

Freebie! One of the keys to teaching reading comprehension is showing kids how proficient readers think about text. Teachers have to find a way to make their thinking visible. One way is with graphic organizers.

The Super Six reading strategies were something I heard about my first year of teaching and it's still around but often gets called a million other names. I've been to inservices on these same strategies and recently created this anchor chart to reference in the classroom. While I do teach middle school, kids never seem to have enough explicit instruction on how to read books or text. Some kids do these steps instinctively but others need a coach. Enter me. We've been talking about the…

As I mentioned in my previous post , I’m trying to incorporate more nonfiction into my reading instruction because of the new C...

Struggling readers often have difficulty making meaning while reading. Teaching students to use think marks to code their thinking helps. Read more and grab some freebies on this post.

Looking for free reading graphic organizers that will help your students think critically and deeply as they read, while meeting the common core reading standards? Grab this free set of reading graphic organizers that include organizers to address: comparing and contrasting, determining the theme, asking questions, summarizing fiction, finding the main idea, and understanding cause and effect. Click to grab this set for free.

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