The students created elves out of holiday scrapbook paper. They then wrote to describe their elves. They also wrote one thing they would do ...

We read the How The Grinch Stole Christmas to work on several reading skills. The students first retold the story to a partner and then indi...

We read Too Many Tamales by Gary Soto. After reading, we discussed the story elements of the book and charted them on the Promethean Board. ...

We read one of my favorite Christmas books, Auntie Claus , to analyze character traits. As a class we created a Flow Map to retell the story...

We read several books so the students could practice making connections. We read Hallo-wiener , Pumpkin Jack , and It's Pumpkin Time . A...

We read The Kissing Hand a while back to practice making connections. We talked about how Chester felt in the story. After reading, the stud...

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...

In reading we have been learning about character traits. We recently read Auntie Claus to discuss how the main character, Sohpie Kringle, c...

As a part of our study of fables and making connections to lessons in stories, we read The Tortoise and the Hare. The students discussed the...

In reading we are working on making connections and the phonics sounds for /ch/, /sh/, /wh/, and /th/. To help the students make connections...

To help the students make connections and to ease them into the change of a new grade and class, we read Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes . ...

We recently read The Cow Who Clucked by Denise Fleming as a part of our lessons on making connections. After reading, the students wrote at...