Determining importance

Determining and understanding the feelings of a child is very important. Here are the editable feelings chart that you can download, print and use for free.

Moving along with our Reading Comprehension Work (shout out to Tammy McGregor's incredible book). We have been focused on Determining Importance within the text through this semester. We have had a great time using non-reading activities to help us develop an understanding of this strategy before, and along with, applying it in our reading. To introduce the subject I use the creative activity of having the kids look through my purse and determine the items that would be important if I were…

Civil engineers have said that 'soil strength is extremely important in the design of all support systems, from a building’s foundation to a highway overpass' . They add that 'the larger the granules, the greater amount of water that can flow between them, determining the soil’s stability''. Applying the same principle to human relationship, we can say that the greater the love flowing between two or more people the greater their strength and the greater their chance of success. When we are…

This chart supports a classroom of children who, when asked, “What is this book teaching?” give the most basic and undeveloped of answers. You may teach, and subsequently chart, that th…

Summer school is in full swing here, so I'm up to my eyes in fingerpaint and hugs..did I mention how crazy different kindergarteners are compared to seventh graders? Anyways, I am in the process of trying to figure out how to implement the readers' and writers' workshop into my middle school classroom. We have 60 minute blocks here, which seems like no time at all! During my student teaching, we practiced the Lucy Calkins' method of workshops, and I absolutely fell in love with it. I decided…

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I'll be honest. When I was a kid, I was taught that the main idea was the first sentence of the paragraph. And, most of the time, that actually seems to work out. Sometimes, however, it doesn't. When that is the case, what am I to do?!?!? Most of the classrooms in our building are currently working on non-fiction texts in reading, and a big part of that is determining the main idea of what they have read. The Calkins units spend a few mini lessons on determining main idea and details, but it…

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Determining Importance - Anchor Chart - Think Aloud - The Old Woman Who Named Things by Cynthia Rylant

I took a little bit from a lot of different charts about DETERMINING IMPORTANCE and came up with this... Special thanks to Eden Case for all her support!

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“Good habits make all the difference.” —Aristotle It is wise for each of us, from time to time, to stop and evaluate our lives as we seek to make the most of them. The start of a calendar year provides an opportunity to look back at the decisions that shaped our lives during the past […]

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Teaching students to determine important information within a text is such an crucial reading skill. Here are some fun and effective ways to teach this IMPORTANT reading skill in the primary grades! #reading #literacy #firstgrade #readingskills #teachingt

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Preflight checks are the most important phase of every flight. It is the last opportunity you have to determine a go or no-go decision.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. -Benjamin Franklin. #Inspiration #Law of attraction #motivational

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LOVE this from @Tanya Geisler so very very true!