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This 5 finger retell activity is a fun reading craft for practicing sequencing and summarizing fiction books in your classroom. It works well for a guided reading or whole class lesson, a reading center, a classroom bulletin board or wall display. Fiction summarizing activities | fiction retelling activities | retelling hand | teaching retelling strategies for kids | retell graphic organizer | retelling glove | retell worksheet | retell vs summarizing | retelling fiction strategies

Engaging prefixes and suffixes activities for 4th and 5th grade students including videos, books, and lesson ideas.

I'm joining Carolyn at Kindergarten: Holding Hands and Sticking Together who is hosting her first ever linky to share favorite funny school stories. What a fun idea! I've been teaching for thirteen years. Most of my time has been with little kids in first. Little kids have some very interesting stories from home. With my daughter starting kindergarten next year, I shutter to think what she will be saying. Anyhow, the story I want to share is not one told to me by one of my firsties. It is...

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Teaching the meanings of prefixes and suffixes is undoubtedly a skill that needs to be scaffolded over multiple grade levels. When I taught second grade, my main goal was to teach students how a prefix or a suffix affected the meaning of a word. We started with five basic prefixes and six basic suffixes. (Check out this affix blog post at my personal blog if you want to view my anchor chart, or read about my favorite way to introduce prefixes and suffixes to younger students.) Then, with...

Prefixes and suffixed are building blocks of words. Check out these creative prefixes and suffixes activities that will help build your students vocabularies.

Well, the 2017-2018 school year has been over for more than a month (for me at least). While, I will be in another school next year--I had to document my room 206. I poured my heart and soul into this room. I worked A LOT over the summer and added flexible seating in right before Halloween. More on flexible seating later. Below are some of my favorite shots of our room and links to products that I used or Amazon links are below each picture. My favorite thing! Our absent folders can be found...

Grab this title for your classroom and incorporate your classroom clock as the focal point. It's the perfect addition to any classroom. The sayings are available in print and cursive. Choose from three titles: YOU can do great things! YOU can do amazing things! YOU can do difficult things! Tag me on Instagram and show me your displays! @talesfromaverybusyteacher Follow me! Blog Facebook Instagram Pinterest Your feedback is appreciated! Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to...

In this video, you'll learn the spelling generalizations for the vowel teams au and aw. You'll also know when these spelling generalizations should be taught...

This book provides great visuals for all students and is the perfect accompaniment for the song "the Green Grass Grew All Around."

My oldest {just finished 3rd grade} has struggled to read longer words for some time now. He’s the reason I designed this organizer for reading longer words. And while we spent a little bit of time talking about prefixes and suffixes, we never camped on it for very long…until lately. I created a bunch of ... Read More about Learning About Prefixes and Suffixes {FREE Pack}

If you love to get kids up and moving, you'll love this prefix write the room activity. Work on grammar prefixes with this hidden set of cards placed around the room.