Free is Good!

I haven’t been the best blogger recently but I can say that I’ve been a pretty good teacher. I feel like a juggler all the time and I can’t keep all the balls in the air at once. So while I’ve been working hard at school, I haven’t been working very hard at blogging. I am setting a goal for myself to do better at both (Doesn’t help that I have two other blogs and contribute to a third).

It is Sunday night at 9:40 and I just finished making a quick read to self-summary worksheet. I like to have my kids use different methods for talking about the books that they read during our center time. Sometimes it’s a verbal activity and sometimes it’s written. This week it’s written.

I decided just to put this on google docs for now because I can’t be bothered to put it in my TPT store tonight. If you think you can use it…great!

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Have a great week ya'll and happy teaching and learning!

Miss Pam

Freebie Friday!

It's Friday and it's time for a Freebie!  I haven't been creating any products because my computer crashed. But I'm up and running with my new one and I plan to have lots of great new freebies for you all.

In the meantime...I've just changed this form to a freebie on TPT. It's the response form I use with my kids for the read to self portion of our centers.  It's a half page and really cute!

Click over to my TPT store here to download your free copy.  While you are there, PLEASE follow my store so you'll get updates when I start posting all this great new stuff!!

That's it for today.  Happy Teaching and have a great weekend!

Talking Back! The Good Kind

My students have been doing a whole bunch of talking back. Talking back to books, that is. I love Beth Newingham and have followed her work for several years now. She put together a fabulous Readers Notebook that she uses in her literacy program.  While I don’t use the whole notebook I do use her post it note tracker sheet.

I teach my kids how to talk back to their books while reading. I model this during read alouds and guided reading and teach a mini lesson at the beginning of the school year.  As part of our Centers the kids Read to Self. Every couple of weeks I ask them to use the post it note trackers sheet and “talk back” to their books.  My students really like this because they get to use post it notes (something a little special) and I like it because I get to see their thought process as they read to themselves.

 The "talking back" form is available on Beth's website and is free.  Try it out with your students...they will love Talking Back!!