Teaching your lucky little learners to read is not just about sight words and basic comprehension. Your primary and early elementary students are ready to learn about text evidence! Text evidence practice can start early and helps your students develop advanced comprehension skills, recognize vocabulary
How can we get our students to naturally refer back to a text for evidence to back up their answers to questions? With habit-building text evidence activities! One of the easiest ways for kids to start this habit is to use the five Ws to teach
What are the best ways to support students who struggle with reading comprehension? The answer is not always straightforward, because one tool may work really well for one student, while something totally different works best for another! Honestly, sometimes the key is to have lots
Determining main idea and key details in a text can be difficult for second graders. And this means it’s also a challenging skill to teach! So, we scoured our archives, drew upon our own teaching experiences, and relied on the expertise of teachers in our
The actors and actresses walked onto the “stage”. They glanced at their waiting audience. The first actor took a deep breath and delivered his first line. Sound like a description of a broadway stage? Or a community theater performance? Guess what, it is describing what
What’s better on a cold day than curling up with a good book? Not much. Unfortunately, not everyone can simply dig into a book, as learning to read doesn’t come easily to every child. There are many processes working simultaneously to create the miracle known
