Showing posts with label Language Arts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Language Arts. Show all posts
Teaching Reading
Below are some FREE websites that I have found particularly helpful in teaching my children reading skills and phonics.
Phonics Games
- these are games you will need to save to your computer and then print out
- for parent/teacher
- this site is a wealth of resources for teaching reading, writing, and vocabulary with activity ideas, printables and lesson plans
- for parent/teacher
- interactive videos, games, books, printable worksheets
- for child- can use site independently
- just register for a ton of free leveled reading materials and printable worksheets,
- celebrities read-aloud picture books online
- activity suggestions to go along with books
- for child/parent- child could use independently
- animated books that read aloud to child
- lesson plans for some books
- many, many articles on literacy
- lesson plans, book suggestions, and resources
- for parent./teacher
Poetry: Cinquain
Niagara
Seen on a Night in November
How frail
Above the bulk
Of crashing water hangs,
Autumnal, evanescent, wan,
The moon.
Lesson Resources on Cinquain Poetry
- Lesson plan from Reading A-Z
- great for multiple grades as you can use the modified version for younger children
- Another great lesson resource from In Our Write Minds
- Graphic Organizer in PDF from Read Write Think
- Sample Cinquin Poems (PDF) from Read Write Think
- PowerPoint Presentation files on Cinquain Poetry ( you will need to have Power Point)
- Interactive Instant Cinquain Poetry Maker
- Information on Adelaide Crapsey the creator of the Cinquain poetry form
Our Work:
1st Grade boy
3rd Grade boy
6th grade boy
It's Ok To Write Badly
Josef age 11 has been struggling with his writing assignments for homeschool. This has been hard on me as writing has always just poured out of me. Talking to him I discovered he was mostly just afraid.
" I don't know what to write!" he'd exclaim. "I'm not doing it right!"
"Write anything, it doesn't have to be good or bad, just put that pencil on your page and write." I'd demand.
Soon we reached an understanding when he started a writing journal similar to my hundreds laying about the house that I pick up and jot down ideas into. I gave him fun prompt and said, "Just write!"
For his Journal I don't grade it. I do not look at it for punctuation, spelling, or good grammar. It's just a tool to get the ideas down, to get him writing his thoughts on paper.
He has written some amazing stories or beginnings of stories, one he ever broke up into chapters. Humorous and funny tales sprouted from his imagination. The vocabulary usage impressive!
It is surprising how freeing it can be to allow yourself to 'JUST WRITE'. Often my own best ideas come from the process of just writing for the sake of writing. It's like thinking aloud on paper or perhaps just listening to your self without judgment.
