Interactive Read Alouds allow us to teach a broad range of standards within one text.  This month's read aloud lessons focus on the Key Ideas and Details and Craft and Structure standards in Literature for Second Grade.  They cover answering questions using key details from the text, recounting the story, determining the central message,  describing how characters respond to major events and challenges, and describing the overall structure of the story.  The books were chosen based on the needs of students returning back to school.  These books contain themes of bravery, inclusion, kindness, growth mindset, and names.  Although each week's lessons cover a broad range of standards, there is a focus for assessment purposes on one specific standard.  The first two weeks in this particular set do not end with a multiple choice assessment, just because it's the beginning of the school year.  You could use the final task those weeks for a grade if needed.   The read aloud lesso...
  Have you been thinking about creating toolkits for each of your students?  Going to individualized tools and supplies is a must this year, so I have created these resources for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade with that need in mind.  The  toolkits  I made this year contain tools for both reading and math.  I knew students would need number lines, hundreds charts, ten frames, letter tiles, and more to be successful in their grade level.   The pouch that I use is about the size of a sheet of paper, so I found that it holds everything needed.  I found these  mesh bags on Amazon .  They were the most inexpensive and sturdy ones I could find.  You get 30 in a set.  You could also use a pencil pouch, pencil box, or gallon Ziploc bag.  I also wanted students to have a matching binder with instructional mats that we frequently use.  You can add any resources to the binder that you want your students to have. I made two separate resources based on the needs for those grades:  a  k...
Have you been thinking about creating toolkits for each of your students?  Going to individualized tools and supplies is a must this year, so I have created these resources for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade with that need in mind.  The toolkits I made this year contain tools for both reading and math.  I knew students would need number lines, hundreds charts, ten frames, letter tiles, and more to be successful in their grade level.   The pouch that I use is about the size of a sheet of paper, so I found that it holds everything needed.  I found these mesh bags on Amazon .  They were the most inexpensive and sturdy ones I could find.  You get 30 in a set.  You could also use a pencil pouch, pencil box, or gallon Ziploc bag.  I also wanted students to have a matching binder with instructional mats that we frequently use.  You can add any resources to the binder that you want your students to have. I made two separate resources based on the needs for those grades:  a kin...