With close reads we are able to fit them in where it makes since and make TRUE connections. There is nothing like reading your box curriculum read aloud about winter in September..don’t laugh- it happens! 🙂 Anyway, we were able to schedule our field trip to the farm to coincide with our ponies close read and it made it so meaningful! As we were on our hayride the kids yelled out, “Look that horse has a blaze!” or “The two foals are playing!”
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We also closed our ponies close read with a cumulative writing! Students wrote a fact about ponies! It’s so fun to see what minor details they will pick up on!
Ponies are wild.
Ponies live on islands.
My intervention group will also be using these new kid-friendly fluency passages! My groups is working on short a, i, and o combined! This new packet has 60 pages of passages…and 420 passages total! You can view this discounted packet below!
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Get next week’s plans below! We are working on making choices with Hey, Little Ant!
Your classroom field trip looks like it was a lot of fun! You got some great pics:)
Hello! Where do your essential questions come from? I really like them and was wondering if you have them in a pack on tpt?
Thank you!
Andrea 🙂
Hey there! They are in my close read packets 🙂
Oh great thank you! 🙂