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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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Easter Egg Word Families

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I came across this cool idea on how to integrate Easter eggs and literacy quite a few months back and wanted to share it before Easter…not a minute to spare!  We’re over here playing with Easter eggs right now (actually ALuv is spinning them on our hardwood floors) and it reminded me of this activity regarding Easter eggs and word families.  We…
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April Showers

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It has rained a tremendous amount over the last 3 weeks where we live!  And then there’s also the old saying: “April showers bring May flowers.”  So we did a few rain activities together.  I meant to post this last week, but forgot… Day 1: Read aloud Rain by Robert Kalan (illustrated by Donald Crews).  I would classify this book on an early to mid-Kindergarten reading…
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