Literacy Assessment

My students use their reading and writing notebooks daily during our Daily 5/CAFE block. I made these notebooks for them a few weeks into the school year and am SO happy with them! My students love that they each had a unique binder and a place to store all things reading and writing related! I …

I made an author's purpose sort in another post (see here) and found out it had a little tmi...as in too much information...as in too many "inform" passages, so I made a redo! Click here for the newer version! This version features some informational passages on geography and soils perfect for GA 3rd graders. I hope you enjoy. Please leave me feedback and let me know how it works for you! As always, this is a freebie!

A few weeks ago I blogged about teaching my 3rd graders "figurative language" I have to say it was the funniest time of year so far! We rea...

These DIFFERENTIATED non-fiction text features activities can be used in a variety of ways: ~Pre-assessment ~Post-assessment ~Interactive Journal ~Follow-up ~Literacy Center and MORE! **Suitable for first and second grades **Teacher directed tool for the emergent-level kindergarten **Remediatio...

These DIFFERENTIATED non-fiction text features activities can be used in a variety of ways: ~Pre-assessment ~Post-assessment ~Interactive Journal ~Follow-up ~Literacy Center and MORE! **Suitable for first and second grades **Teacher directed tool for the emergent-level kindergarten **Remediatio...

5 Fail-Proof Ways to help you teach students how to identify the main idea & the supporting details of a passage, short story...

We've been spending a lot of time talking about animals. We have also been spending a lot of time working with fact and opinion. Stop by my blog to pick up a copy of this worksheet that gets students reading and sorting fact and opinion sentences! Click on the picture to take you there! Have a terrific Tuesday night! Angie Rulin' the Roost

Notebook Text Structure Anchor Charts for Problem & Solution, Description, Sequence, Cause & Effect, Compare & Contrast

4th grade anchor charts

This is a fill in the blank worksheet that I created for my 2nd graders to check their understanding of the character traits we had learned. The front of the worksheet has students choosing character traits from a word bank to fill in the blanks in the sentences. The back of the worksheet has stud...

This grammar activity, Punctuation Stickers, is a fun way to practice adding the correct punctuation to the end of a sentence.

Download or print this amazing coloring page: art

Task cards, worksheets, booklets,theory and practice! I have included theory cards to explain what inflectional endings are as well as what root words are. There are separate cards for -s,-es,-ies -ing -r,-er,-ier -st,-est,-iest I have included

How are you doing with teaching non-fiction, informational texts? Do you feel you have a good grasp on expository text structures? With the Common Core ELA standards, students are expected to be proficient in reading complex informational texts. State assessments are also becoming more non-fiction focused, to evaluate student abilities in navigating these complex texts. So what can we do to help our students meet these standards? The purpose of this post is to provide a few resources for…

This is something I have used to assess the general knowledge of students about Fiction and Non-Fiction. This can be used as a Pre-Test or Post-Test or both. It can also be used as an activity to practice the concept. Can they look at the clues on the cover of the book to distinguish between the ...