Articles written by Mandy Yates
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Teaching Comparison in Nonfiction
Get your students to understand nonfiction comparisons by using this life-sized interactive approach.
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Nonfiction Text Features
Engage students in a visualizing lesson that teaches them about the nonfiction text feature comparisons.
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Independent Reading Verses S.S.R.
Independent Reading is quite different than Sustained Silent Reading or D.E.A.R in the components of time, book selection, and the student and teacher's roles.
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Basics of Reader's Workshop
Implementing a Reading Workshop requires certain basic components which consist of: Modeling Mini-lessons, Independent Reading, and then Sharing and Reflection.
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Teaching Content Area Vocabulary
Build your students vocabulary through an interactive process. Take your students on a fieldtrip without even leaving the classroom with a Vocabulary Visit.
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Building Your Classroom Library
Find out how to purchase books for your classroom library on a small budget.
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Choosing a 'Just Right' Book
Students can learn how to choose a just right book that matches their reading level by using the five finger rule, the Goldilocks method, and by activating their schema.
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Building Students' Vocabulary
Build your students' vocabulary through reading aloud children's literature. Listen for interesting words, discuss their meanings, and place them on word walls.
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The Basics of Writing Workshop
Writing workshop is a structure for teaching writing in which students are provided with time to write on topics of their own choice.
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Independent Reading Strategies
Independent reading is a time for students to make their own book choices, apply reading strategies, have large blocks of time to read and set independent reading goals.
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