Second Grade

This year our school mandated that we have anchor charts displayed in our classroom AND it needed to be student interacted. Today I introduced use your schema to make connections strategy from CAFE. I pre-made this anchor chart before introducing it to the class.

The kids choose a verb and wrote it down in present, past, and future tense. Then they used each of these words in a sentence. They turned out GREAT! One of the girls told me "Mrs. Cirrito we did a good job with our verbs!" :)

MINTS Poster from Teach Love Happiness on TeachersNotebook.com (2 pages)

As many of you already know, I am finishing up my FINAL grad school course as we speak.  I may or may not have a slight case of "senioritis".  Who knew that you could come down with THAT in GRAD SCHOOL?!

Are you tired of nagging reminding your students again and again (and yet again) to check their writing for capitals, spelling, neatness, and end punctuation?If you are - CALL THE COPS!Seriously! Use the COPS to help your little writersslow down and edit their own writing.So don't keep nagging reminding - just call the COPS!

    Summarizing is one of the hardest strategies to teach and for students to learn.  Many students will retell the text ... almost word for word when asked to give a summary. In order for students to learn the difference between a retelling and a summary, teachers must model, model, model summarizing often.

I need to constantly review with my students so they will remember all of the skills that I have taught them. While my students are doing their morning work, I can make a quick assessment on who needs extra help on a specific skill.

This week we are diving head first into our curriculum and first up was sentences! After a brief review of what a sentence is (and not!) We started working on the different types of sentences and what their appropriate ending punctuation would be.

A blog with writing workshop, literacy and social studies ideas for upper elementary classes.

Students will be able to take notes on the different forms of adverbs using this foldable. This foldable is great for interactive notebooks too!

My first few years of teaching I was "given" writing for my team planning assignment.  After digging my heels in with writing for a few years and in different grade levels, it ignited a love for teaching writing.  I wanted to share with you some of my favorite writing anchor charts that will be WONDERFUL

Interactive Grammar Notebook FREEBIE for types of sentences! Interactive notebooks are a great way to implement grammar and language arts standards for primary students!

Not sure where to begin when teaching collective nouns? This blog post contains ideas, visuals, and activities for teaching your students all about collective nouns!!

There was a time when I dreaded teaching the topic of main idea and supporting details. Trying to teach students how to read a passage and pick out the main idea and key details was both challenging and boring. One year, the time came, and I knew that I needed to "spice things up"... or maybe I should say "cool it down" :) for my own sanity. I've always had a sweet tooth, so I decided to create materials that reflected the following ice cream cone analogy.

We were reading the novel Rules, which my students absolutely loved! After all of our talk about characters, character traits, character conflicts, and character change, I was trying to encompass all of those things into a final project. Now that they are turning them in, I think it was a pretty cumulative assessment, which was my goal!

A blog about reading and writing, and sharing ideas about literacy and RTI for your classroom/ reading, writing, & RTI resources

 Hello! Welcome to our fall mentor text link up! The book I chose to feature is An A From Miss Keller by Patricia Polacco. If you’re like me (and most intermediate level ELA teachers I know!), you’re already a fan of her work.