I love reading lessons that help 3rd graders explore multiple reading standards within one story – especially during holiday seasons when students are struggling to stay engaged in learning! That’s why I created this Christmas Reading Comprehension resource that is a complete 8 – 10 day reading lesson for your 3rd grade classroom! It covers 3 different Common Core reading standards within a sweet Christmas story about love and kindness. The Christmas Story This sweet Christmas story will engage your students immediately! A lonely scarecrow learns about love and kindness from a little girl named Betsy and Santa Claus. The passage is divided into three chapters which is much more manageable for 3rd grade readers. This particular story lent itself...
Animal lovers, farm goers, and kids everywhere will love play with My Little Farm. It’s a charming four paneled felt board that can be laid flat for play, or assembled into a three-dimensional barn. With 32 magic stick felt pieces, this toy promotes lots of conversation and language! Developed by a speech-language pathologist, My Little Farm was created with language learning in mind. Each felt piece was intentionally chosen to teach children new words and basic concepts. Children can explore shapes in the barn (and make comparisons of shapes in their own environment), for instance the sun is a circle, the window is a triangle, the picture is a square, etc. They begin to understand and use other basic concepts...
Roughly 100 demonstrators demanded the departure of Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau, having endured the November rain to stage a protest in front of the company’s head office in Montreal Saturday afternoon. The protesters were urging the board of directors at the country’s biggest airline to live up to its linguistic plan and turf the unilingual chief executive over his lack of French. Marie-Anne Alepin, president of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste which organized the protest, says the fact a unilingual anglophone can reach the highest echelons of a large, Quebec-based company “defies comprehension.” Rousseau set off an uproar a week-and-a-half ago over his inability to speak Quebec’s common tongue and official language. Following a speech almost entirely in English to the...
Get Ready for Kindergarten All Around Town is learning disguised as play! Kindergarten is when our children are beginning to foster a love for foundational learning concepts. MindWare’s Peaceable Kingdom delivers over 60 activities all in one box of fun. With four different stops in town: The Donut Shop, The Post Office, The Vet and The School, children complete 15 different play-based activities at each spot that foster: Phonological awareness Letter recognition Listening comprehension and following directions Storytelling Sorting and counting Adding and subtracting Life science basics Each spot in town features a trifold scene that stands alone. There are cutouts and tools that add to pretend play value. Pass letters through the mail drop at the Post Office! Every...
Vocabulary Building with Synonyms and Antonyms Teaching synonyms and antonyms? Kids are typically naturals when it comes to using synonyms and antonyms – even if they don’t realize it! Their imaginations get stronger and stronger as they age, and words like “humongous” show up rather than “big” during their stories to give a more dramatic effect. Although their stories tend to be a bit exaggerated, it’s that type of use of synonyms and antonyms that builds their vocabulary, brings their writing to life, and makes them better readers all around. To help you help your students continue building their vocabulary, I have a couple synonyms and antonyms teaching resources for you, as well as several activity ideas you can try...
