Importance The main idea is the central, or most important, idea in a paragraph or passage. Arguably, being able to identify the main idea is the most important skill for students when reading nonfiction, but it doesn’t stop there! Finding the main idea is only the first step in summarizing a text, and so being […]
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Critical Analysis of a Poem in Middle School
Most middle school students are not thrilled to learn that they will be analyzing one poem over three days.
Teaching Text Evidence Without The Groans!
There are several topics that make students groan when you announce them…proving a point with text evidence is among the top five.
Reading Nonfiction Text in Guided Reading and Small Groups
Children are naturally fascinated by learning through nonfiction books, but many don’t know how to navigate the complexity of the text. Small groups and guided reading groups are the perfect places to teach and reinforce how to read nonfiction texts. First, you’ll want to choose strong nonfiction texts! Think about what the students want to […]
Readers’ Workshop: Activate Schema with Movie Clips
** Contact me if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to come to your campus with engaging, evidence-based, and practical professional development ** Over the past five years or so, there has been a big emphasis on using media in the classroom. If you scour Pinterest for ideas on making inferences, you will find tons of pictures […]
Success with Explicit Instruction
** Contact us if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to come to your campus with engaging, evidence-based, and practical professional development ** So many times in education we, as teachers, are bombarded with buzz words. These words will eventually become white noise, words you expect to hear in an academic setting, but you no longer […]
Instructional Coaching: Modeling a Think-Aloud
** Contact us if you would like to have modeled lessons or workshop-style sessions come to your campus! ** Last month I had the pleasure of modeling a think-aloud in third grade. I was asked to model the process of sharing with students the reading strategies I am using as well as the Gradual Release of […]
Mastering Metacognition
While the term “metacognition” was first coined back in 1979 by John Flavell, it seems to have resurfaced in the past few years in education. It comes up in educational conversation so much that it has almost become white noise. Many times I hear it defined as “thinking about your thinking.” This definition works, but […]