Community Helpers Write the Room

Community Helpers Write the Room

Community Helpers Write the Room Response Sheet

Another favorite activity of my kindergateners!

Common Core Aligned:

K.RIT.10 

Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.

Guided Reading in Kindergarten Continued....

 

I wanted to share a little more today about guided reading  in my classroom. I am including a generic  lesson plan form that is easy to use, you just change the name of the book you are using,  high frequency words and teaching points (based on Common Core standards). I use the Beanie Baby reading strategies. Can Do Kinders blog has a great download you can print out for use in your classroom. There are many out on the web, Pinterest has many boards devoted to Reading Strategies for emergent readers. 

Lesson plan form

Can Do Kinders Reading Strategies Download

Guided Reading in Kindergarten

 

Guided Reading in Kindergarten

I have maintained a website Linda's Learning Links for the past 10 years. It will be closed down in September. Guided Reading in Kindergarten has been one of the most popular pages on my website. I've updated the page and turned it into an article. I spend the first month of school teaching the routines of guided reading. As students make progress and are assessed for reading levels, guided reading groups change. In future posts, I will share information sheets that I maintain for each student. I hope you will find the article helpful.

Pete's Big Lunch

Pete's Big Lunch Retelling Literacy Workstation

One of my Literacy Workstations is the Retelling Center. Since Pete is a big favorite with my kindergarteners, I decided he's going to star in my Literacy and Math Workstations in August! Here's the first one, I hope you will enjoy it.

I laminate the sheets, cut out the pieces and either put magnets on the back or velcro ( I still have a small flannel board that I use often in my centers). 

Common Core Aligned:

K.RL.2

With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.

Kindergarten Works has some fabulous retelling centers, with lots of how to's on setting up a retelling center!

 

Big Bug Surprise

Big Bug Surprise Activities

Big Bug Surprise by Julia Gran is one of my favorite books to share with my students during our Insect study. I hope you'll enjoy the activities with your budding entomologists.

Dr. Seuss on the Loose Giant Giveaway!!

 

 I have been busy preparing lots of materials for our Dr. Seuss unit next week. You can receive the following materials by becoming a follower and liking A Teacher's Touch on Facebook, making a comment and leaving your email address or letting me know you are a follower, liking A Teacher's Touch on Facebook and leaving a comment with your email address. Here's a list of the materials you will receive (all freebies!)

Dr. Seuss We Love You Guided Reading Book 

Dr. Seuss We Love You Guided Reading response sheet

Dr. Seuss Rhyming Literacy Center

Dr. Seuss Counting Activity and response sheet

Dr. Seuss Measuring and response sheet

Dr. Seuss Write the Room and response sheet

Dr. Seuss  Graph the Room and response sheet

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Kohl's Cares for Kids and Another Giveaway to Come Soon!

I went to Kohl's Saturday and voila! Dr. Seuss and some of his friends are back in town! (The alligator from the ABC books and the character from The Sleep Book are too cute.) As you know Dr. Seuss's birthday is just around the corner, so be on the lookout for a giveaway packet to come soon. I'll let you guess what it will be about!!
P.S. Thank you for all your kind comments and emails about the American Symbols Giveaway.

The Snow Globe Family Freebie

The Snow Globe Family activity 

I purchased this book last year and my kinders really loved it! We have a two day week and I was trying to think of something fun to do! So, I decided to create a writing activity for this book. I hope your class will enjoy it as well.

Swat The Old Black Fly Game

Old Black Fly game cards

     What happens when a kindergarten teacher walks into Dollar Tree and sees a giant fly swatter? She decides that The Old Black Fly by Jim Aylesworth needs to be read and a game needs to be made. So, because we are working on number words and revisiting color words, I made the Swat the Old Black Fly game. We have had a ball playing the game as a team game (I bought two flyswatters)
  So, run to Dollar Tree and pick up a giant fly swatter (or use the regular size) and print out, laminate and cut out the old black flies and play away!!

More Farm Listening Response Activities

 

Here are more of my favorite farm listening response activities.

 Farmer Joe's Hot Day

 The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash

Pigs APlenty, Pigs Galore!

 Red Hen and Sly Fox

Chicks and Salsa

Pond Literature Response Freebies

Jump, Frog, Jump

Green Wilma

The Teeny Weeny Tadpole

Boris Beaver

Hope you will enjoy using these in your listening workstation or in Reader's Workshop.

A "Froggy Friends" Guided Reading book freebie

We started our pond unit today and I will be posting a packet of pond freebies later this week. But, I wanted to go ahead and share the guided reading book I created. Hope you will enjoy it!

Froggy Friends

A little more Seuss!

Dr. Seuss We Love You ppt

Dr. Seuss, We Love You smartboard notebook

Dr. Seuss, We Love You guided reading response sheet

I like to make ppts of the guided reading books I use with my class. I am also including a smartboard version, it will be great for finding rhyming words, sight words and determining the number of syllables in words from the story. I also make response sheets for each guided reading book I use, I'm including the response sheet as well. I hope you will enjoy using them with your students.

P.S. The font used in all of the items is Dr. Soos Bold.

 

WhCh Smartboard Sort

WhCh Smartboard Sort

Here's the last of the smartboard sorts for whole group lessons.