Reading+References

__Welcome to Reading__ Click on the topics below.
 * **[|Book Report Forms]**

**Fish Bowl Discussions**

**[|DRI progress monitoring]** || [|How to Choose Just Right Books to Read]

[|Nonfiction article sheet]

[|Nonfiction Summary Rubric] Meteorite hits Russia  Penny for your thoughts!  || PHONICS and WORD PATTERNS

Our first grade reading buddies! [|Text Features in Magazines] [|Genre Reading Log] media type="custom" key="23075958" || ** Notable Sticky Notes: ** ** sentence variety **

Our Book Summaries ||
 * **[|Authors' Words and Quotes] ** [[image:http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT8lEgKkQdxzgfF6UeRTJesQ7YilwmD2g-Kl5oIB8M0lV1TVbkDqw width="122" height="82"]]

Our First Grade Reading Buddies! || Figurative Language [|Homophones] [|Idioms] [|Metaphors]

** [|HOMONYMS & HOMOPHONE] **



[|Complete list of homophones]

Rules for adding es or s || **[|Literary Imagery Devices]**



[|Vocabulary games for kids] || Connect with each other's blogs here.

[|Your Reading Notebook and Blog Requirements]

Almer Independent Reading Corral

Weekly Reading Novel Blog Site

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Similes

[|Synonyms and Antonyms] || Click here to post 2 or more times a week, to our class blog. || [|What's Up? Current Events]   [|CNN Student News] Ms. Falcone's Class at Peabody: Current Events connection Our class Google Map of our weekly Current Events.  ||  [|What's the Big Idea?]  Higher-Level Thinking Questions
 * [|Independent Reading Posts]

[|My Reading Habits]  || __ Podcasts/Voice Threads __ || **under construction** || //[|Poetic Prose: Poetry]// //[|Click here for some of Mrs. Almer's favorite poems!]// //Start your own poetry notebook.// || __**[|Illuminations]**__ Poetry recitations
 * ** Weighty Words: Vocabulary **

|| Sentence Structures

[|Greek.Latin Word Roots, Homophones, Nifty Thrifty 50, Word Wall Words: study Sheets]

[|Nifty Thrifty 50 complete word list] ||
 * Homophones Worksheets

YouTube Videos: Homophones

[|Homophones slide presentation]

[|Revolutionary War On Wednesday] [|Chapter Questions] || == [|Storyboards] ==

[|Toliver's Secret]

[|Esperanza Rising]

[|Stealing Home: Jackie Robinson] Teacher lesson plan

[|Buried In Ice] [|Study Guide]

[|George Washington's Socks] || Extra! Extra! Newspaper

Sentence Fluency: [|Home practice] [|Click here] to bring up a copy of the fluency goal-keeping chart. Make a copy for yourself. I recommend this activity once a week to track progress over a 5-week spread.

[|Weekly Reader online!!!!] Magic Word for student online access is Hopkins5th Click on the cover titled, "" then choose any issue to read. These are Feature Articles!!!! ||   [|WORD WALL] and

WONDERFUL WORDS!!!

 [|Reading website for kids!!!][|CHeCk this one out!!!]

[|DRA2 Comprehension Questions]

[|It's all Greek or Latin to me!!!Word Roots Quizlet study corner.] Link to our sets of roots! "log" quizlet. [| tact, tang, tag, tig] [|cred,fid] [|pass,path,pat] [|dur,firm] [|pos] [|sens, set] [|mob, mot, mov] [|cit,civ,poli,polit] [|ono, nym, onym] [| mim,sembli,simil,simul] [|tain, ten, tent] [|men,min,mon] [|duc, duct] [|fer] [| ord] [| stat] [|aud, son, phon] [|chron], [|cogn, sci] [| clud, clus, claus] [|fac, fic, fect, fict] [| spond,spons,spous] [|more roots Quizlet practice] [|leg,lect] [|flu, flux,] [|grad, gress] [|sed, sid, sess]

[|grad, gress] [| cap] [|pel, puls] [| pe]n [|d] || [|Study Island] Click on here. || Our Bookshelf! See what we are reading or recommending!   || Acknowledgements: I thank Tammy Falcone, Janet King, TIE Conference workshops, and other LPS teachers whose websites and wonderful educational suggestions can only strengthen our students' learning. Together we all work to make a difference in the future leaders of our nation.
 * [|NIFTY THRIFTY 50]  [|word list and games]  ||  [|Dear Mr. Henshaw and __Ribsy__Group project]  [[image:http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/public/WlLBUxkNtacEBMLNq-LRFMfv9AGGFT6ekso3BGX3YAduBBXHCOFNW-ViWMfM_6pP0ZIx-EYQx03HSHCvpX77HEZnj9Xw3pXMUo-tfbOavlhppDdCIgbG1oPpfqxY5vEoq4WnoLcR5JwK3Wytx14NQcoH7xu135kcun6l-Q width="64" height="55"]] || [|Jacob's Ladder]