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States and Capitals Flashcards

It's time for our LAST free set of flashcards for the summer: States and Capitals Flashcards! If you missed any of the flashcards we've shared, here's the link to see all our Free Printable ... Read More about States and Capitals Flashcards

FREE Fraction Flashcards

It's time for some FREE Fraction Flashcards! These are a part of our flashcard summer series, Free Printable Flashcards. You'll also enjoy our free Roll and Cover Fraction Games. Please ... Read More about FREE Fraction Flashcards

Analogue Clock Flashcards

It's time for some FREE Analogue Clock Flashcards, which are a part of our flashcard summer series, Free Printable Flashcards. We have more free printables for telling time. Check out our No Prep ... Read More about Analogue Clock Flashcards

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Fiction Text Structure: Read, Sort, and Write It

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{photo credit} After my student had shown that she could identify the parts of a narrative fiction text structure (click on the picture above to see previous lessons), we moved onto reading & sorting the parts of the story structure.  I could tell she was ready to take on more responsibility.   READ AND SORT the Text Structure 1.  We reviewed…
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Fiction Text Structure: Read and Identify the Text Structure

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{photo credit} If you’re new to This Reading Mama, welcome!  I’m in the middle of a mini-series on teaching fiction text structure.  You can click on the image above to read the introduction. Today, I’m going to explore how to READ AND IDENTIFY the Text Structure Before Reading: 1. We briefly talked about Scooby Doo (she was very familiar with…
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Teaching Fiction Text Structure Mini-Series

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{photo credit} By far, the most visited place on my blog for the last couple of weeks has been fiction text features and structure.  I thought I’d take the lead from my readers and post a mini-series of activities on fiction text structure that I’ve used with several students in tutoring.  This is told as if I did all this with one…
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Picture Sorts For Short A & O

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Before moving on to short o word families, I did a simple sort with ALuv, comparing the vowel sounds in some short a and short o words.  This was a phonemic awareness activity because print was not involved and I was asking him to isolate the vowel sound in each word as he sorted them.  It took about 7-10 minutes…
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Leveled Book Databases

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Here are a few online resources for finding books that are on your child’s “just right” reading level.  Before I post them, here is a helpful chart that shows reading level correlations.  If you’ll also notice in the chart and databases, beside the letter level is an AR number that may look something like this 3.5.  This means 3rd grade,…
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Hi! I’m Becky, a homeschooling mama with 4 blessings who keep me on my toes {and knees}. Before homeschooling, I was a classroom teacher (M.Ed.) and reading tutor. Read more about me here.

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