Stamina anchor chart

Building Our Reading Stamina anchor chart for tracking the class stamina! I used a ten frame to track our minutes, since that is also a first grade standard. Our goal is “I can stay focused for ____ minutes” to build our reading stamina.

Do your students struggle with the ability to read and write for a long period of time? Check out these great tips to help them build their stamina!

We know that the more time kids spend reading, the better they will do in school and in life! There’s not much we can do to help kids read at home, except hope that they do. But we can make sure they read during school!! I shared 4 ways I structure my independent reading time on this... Read More

Daily 5 stamina chart! A few people's ideas combined into one!

Check out all my favorite robots and robotics lessons for beginners and elementary students! Perfect for introducing kids to the basics of coding.

Even thought I won't be teaching third grade again this year, I do have a TON of ideas that I didn't get to share with you last year! We'll start by sharing what I did at the beginning of the school year to get us going! The students and I began our first day getting to know each other. The students decorated an All About Me T-shirt! The students and I first brainstormed some of our favorite things to get our minds going. You can grab the T-shirt pattern and letters here. Another get to know…

Step by step directions for teachers explaining how to teach students to build reading stamina in order to become independent readers.

Visual chart for building reading stamina with students.

I feel like we are finally starting to get into a normal routine. Those first few weeks of school are all about establishing routines and some groups just take longer than others. ;) In reading this week, we were talking all about families. We compared and contrasted our families to the family of Camila in our anchor text My Family from the Journeys reading series. We added this little flap book to our new Interactive Reading Notebooks. We are all about reading like detectives. This week, I…