Charlotte's Web - Novel Study 

Charlotte's Web -Novel Study

This complete and engaging novel study and literacy unit for Charlotte’s Web will save YOU time and engage your students in a meaningful reading experience. This novel study includes reading responses, graphic organizers, comprehension questions, vocabulary, writing about reading, character study, story elements, task cards for discussion groups or journaling and "book talk" questions for understanding the story, an interactive flip book and more! Everything you need! At your fingertips! You can easily assign these pages for distance learning and school-at-home assignments.

These writing prompts and graphic organizers

• will enable young readers to make connections to their reading

• will support reading strategies taught

• will improve reading comprehension

• will engage students in literature in a meaningful way

110 pages of Reading Response Graphic Organizers and Writing Prompts Include:

• character study pages [12 pages]
• adjectives to describe the characters
• "Who am I?" character riddles
• setting [2 pages]
• 5 vocabulary bookmarks
• vocabulary words for classroom display [42 key words from story]
• writing about the theme [3 pages]
• compare and contrast
• ‘thick and thin’ questions [5 pages]
• comprehension questions chapter-by-chapter [22 pages]
• comprehension question task cards for discussion groups or journaling
• story elements flip booklet [fun to make]
• poetry! About a Spider, of course!
• writing prompt for spider webs
• visualizing activity
• visualizing anchor chart for display
• theme study pages
• summarize the story page
• recommendation page
• ‘make a cover’ for your Charlotte’s Web folder
• "book talk" questions for teacher with pacing guide
• teacher resource pages

The flip booklet is easy to assemble. Download, print on 2 sides, fold and staple and you are ready to go!

This book is a wonderful book teaching the theme of friendship and loyalty.

E.B. White is a masterful writer and he captures the children's minds and hearts on page 1. You will be able to use this novel study if you decide to do a read aloud with the book; or if you assign the book for independent reading or

Robot Math Thursday | Math Practice | Math Skills

Robot Math Thursday - School at Home - Distance Learning - Math pages for 2nd graders to complete at home. There are 40 pages for Robot Math Thursday... enough for a month of Thursdays. [or any day] with a fun Robot theme.
Easy to send home for school at home, homeschoolers or distance learning assignments. Independent work packet.  A variety of 2nd grade math skills are included.  

Focus skills are: 

• addition and subtraction facts | double digits | horizontal format
• symmetry | finish the robot
• measuring to the half-inch
• measuring with paper clips
• collecting data to create a graph
• creating a graph with data
• reading a graph
• answering questions using the robot graph
• draw your own robots
• write about your robots
• Robot Math Thursday - certificates

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Circle Time Talk | Task Cards | Back to School

Circle Time Talk - Task Cards

Improve students' speaking and listening skills with these task cards that start meaningful conversations for your students. There are 50 task cards that show a question to discuss, tell and listen, and then discuss some more.

These task cards work well in a morning circle setup or anytime that you want to teach speaking and listening skills in your classroom. Each card shows one question.

Some example questions are:

• What traits do you look for in a best friend?
• How do you show kindness at recess time?
• Tell about a time when you helped someone. How did you feel?
• Name 2 things that you really don't need, but you feel lucky to have them.
• Name something that you do everyday that helps the world.
• If you had a robot for one day, what would you program it to do?
• What might happen if animals could drive cars and trucks?
• Do you think classroom rules help you to learn? Please give examples to explain your answer.
• If a cat could talk, what would he say?
• If you had $1,000, how much would you spend? How much would you save? How much would you share? Elaborate on each.

There are 50 total questions. Some examples are stated above. Easy to prepare your task cards... just download and print. Also included ... a half-sheet response page if your students need to prepare and write notes for their answers and two classroom posters.  One on speaking and another on listening. Post these near your circle time space.

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Literature In the Classroom | Books for the First Week of School

Read a book a day to your students to connect, build community, and develop a love of reading starting on the first day of school.

Start out your school year with some excellent choices of Children's Literature.  These masterful writers teach literacy and life lessons.  Learning to read is enjoyable when literature is an integral part of the process.  Enjoyable activities are often repeated.  When children have authentic opportunities with reading, writing and engaging with literature, they learn to love books and reading.  Do not overlook this essential component of literacy instruction.   It is a best practice in literacy learning to incorporate high-quality children's books into primary classrooms to instill the love of reading.  Engage your students with picture books, fiction and informational text. 

Children’s literature is powerful.

Children learn about themselves when exposed to the many books and book characters. They read and listen.  Reading aloud exposes children to story language.  They learn about people, places and experiences that they have never before experienced. They can learn empathy and social skills to use in their own lives.  

We can think about a children’s book as serving as either a window or a mirror. “Window” books allow children to peek into other people’s worlds (Bishop, 1990). “Mirror” books, on the other hand, present familiar characters or worlds to children, and they allow readers to identify with characters’ experiences (Bishop, 1990).

Did You Know?

You can listen to Children's Literature on my youtube channel.  Listen to the many great books and see the pages turn.  Some favorites are:

Only One You   Chrysanthemum The Perfect Square  Wake Up Wake Up
Pete the Cat   The Scarecrow's Hat   Frog on a Log    I love Animals   I am Peace  The Wonderful Book    The Magic Fish       and many more! 

Reading aloud can significantly help with children's overall reading abilities and achievements.  Some of the benefits of reading to children include:  cognitive development, improved language skills, preparation for academic success, making bonds and connections with the child, improve concentration and stamina, improves imagination and creativity, and cultivates lifelong love of reading. 

Creating and organizing your class library can be time well spent. Your students will access the many books easily when your library is organized.  Be sure to include both "window" and "mirror" books in you class selections.    Invite students into the world of reading with a simple bulletin board like the one pictured below.  Read The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller.  She is a teacher who inspires her students to read a lot and love reading long after they leave her class.  Reading Miller's book will help you know the many reasons why literature in the classroom will benefit your students tremendously.  Read books to ask questions, to get answers and to ask more questions.  Write about the books you read and keep a reading log.  Find the perfect reading log for your class, and try a reading challenge.   Reading challenges encourage students to read in a fun way.  They are able to read different books in different places and at different times.