As a part of our lessons on fiction story elements and our author study of Eric Carle, we compared the stories The Mixed-Up Chameleon and Th...

A while back I stumbled across a site called A Story Before Bed . The site is intended for parents and grandparents to be able to record ...

We read The Copycat Fish by Marcus Pfister and then the students retold the story in order as a class using a Flow Map. The students then in...

We read Fred and Pete at the Beach by Cynthia Nugent to practicing retelling stories in order. As a class, the students retold the events o...

We read Lisa's Daddy and Daughter Day to practice making predictions and retelling a story. Before reading, we took a picture walk and c...

To practice retelling a story in order, our class and Mrs. Francis' class went on a "bear hunt." We went outside to the garden...

Before reading The Kissing Hand, the students asked questions they had based on a picture walk. We typically take a picture walk before read...

We recently read Wemberley Worried by Kevin Henkes. After reading, the students brainstormed their favorite parts of the story which we char...

We recently read The Cow Who Clucked by Denise Fleming  to further learn how to make connections to a story. After reading and discussing so...

During our author study over David Shannon books, we read Pirates Don't Change Diapers. After reading the story, the students retold the...

As a part of our study over David Shannon books, we read Too Many Toys and A Bad Case of Stripes. As you can read about in previous posts, t...

In addition to reading The Mixed Up Chameleon, we also read The Grouchy Ladybug. The students created three-flap foldables for this book as ...

In reading we read Rosie Sprout's Time to Shine to work on comparing character traits. After reading the book the class created a Doubl...

In reading the students are learning to use text evidence to support their answers to questions. Ms. Willemin read Butterfly Cafe with the ...