Hi All....Clearly, I have
been MIA...sorry about that...But I am back and so excited to share about one
of my passions...Guided Reading. I remember being scared to teach guided
reading groups..and now it's my favorite time of day!
Twenty years of 2nd Grade and
I have pretty much tried everything when it comes to my Guided Reading
Groups..but recently I am LOVING what I am doing with my groups. My district
recently adopted Pearson's Reading Street Program. I like the stories and the
small leveled readers, but I needed a little bit more for my groups...so I
began creating :)
I can probably state verbatim
the Common Core State Standards for Grades 1-3 right now for ELA..but
hey...it's all for the good of my little kiddos :)
We have been working through
the Common Core State Standards using my Guided Reading Flip-Flap Books and my
little ones LOVE THEM...when I whip out another flip-flap book, I hear them say...."Ohhhhh..how
cute. I love this one!" and another one of my kiddos said to me.."You
make the cutest things..I hope when I become a teacher I can make these
too!" They melt my heart when they say things like this :)
I have created Flip-Flap
Books that align with each Common Core State Standard.
One of the first flip-flap
books we did was on a story called Scarcity..kind of boring..BUT
they loved making the little layered book! We talked about the difference
between a Main Idea and a Topic and the difference between Facts and Details.
They created their little layered books all about Scarcity.
We also worked on Author's
Purpose, Cause and Effect, and Comparing and Contrasting Topics. For our Author's
Purpose activity, we read a book called Dotty's Art and they
created A Pocket Full of Author's Purpose. They wrote about the Author's
purpose and how they knew what the purpose of the story was.
We worked on Cause and Effect
and created a small file folder flip-flap book. We brainstormed different cause
and effect relationships from the story and then they wrote about one of them in
the file folder and illustrated it.
This past week we were
working on Comparing and Contrasting Topics. We read a book called Arachnid
or Insect? We compared and contrasted arachnids and insects using our
Explosion Book Venn Diagram....can I tell you the OOOOHHS and AAAHHHHS I got
from my little ones...they thought they were so cool they way they
"exploded"...such fun and the really learned a lot about comparing
and contrasting arachnids and insects.
This
is the explosion book closed...
This is the explosion book opened...
We
add all of our Guided Reading Flip-Flap Books to our Lapbook. My students
write
the title of each book that we read during our guided reading group time on the
cover.
I
have one for girls and one for boys...
Here
is what a sample Guided Reading Lapbook might look like when it is complete...
Check out the adorable ipod sequencing flip-flap book..
So...If
you have read this ENTIRE Blog Post...Thank You and here is a little freebie
for you...
This is a Blank Layered flip-flap book for notebooking or lapbooks.
If you would like to check out my Guided Reading Flip-Flap Books,
check it out in my TPT Store...
Well...that's all for now :)
Hugs,
