Reading+Resources

Why don't we post in grade order (starting with pre-K and ending with high school)? - Megan

I teach fourth grade, but as far as reading resources go, I really love read, write, think and also literature circle activities. I am a firm believer in Lucy Calkins'readers workshop program. I haver her units of study forwrites g for grades 1 through 5 and I love them!!!! :-)

For secondary English, I think reinventing the wheel can be time consuming. Discovery Education offers plenty of free teacher resources with lesson plan samples, tools to help students with homework and "brain teasers" for an extra challenge. There are over 100 English/Language Arts worksheets from grades K-12 of handouts of topics Compound Words to Synonyms to Elements of a Shorty Story.-Felicia

We use Reader's and Writer's Workshop and follow Calkins' model at my school, but we also use[| Making Meaning]in our first grade classrooms. I just started a brand new program for our school this week called [|SIPPS](Systematic Instruction in Phoneme Awareness, Phonics, and Sight Words). It's a program for struggling readers that focuses on a decoding curriculum. It teaches the prerequisites for developing reading fluency and comprehension. It can serve as either an intervention program or as an initial decoding program. I meet with two SIPPS groups three times a week for 30 minutes each time. There's a lot of preparation involved but it's going really well so far. The kids seem to like it and the parents are thrilled their kids are getting extra pull out services (Tier 2 interventions). - Lisa