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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids Fun Activity for your Classroom!! Gather all of your students and assign them to a group of approximately 2-4 students per group Assign them each an important category to reading literature: simile, metaphor, setting, plot, etc. Have them each write on a poster board the definition, a picture, and the importance of that sub-category to reading literature Have each group present their poster to the class

I believe that the NES can be helpful in many ways. One of the main helpful things that the NES does is it is kind of set up to look at a text, break it up, and analyze it. It is super important to teach this to your students because this is a huge part of reading. I feel like all people know how to skim read, and do it often. It is hard for a lot of kids to comprehend long texts. Not even just their attention span, but also the content of the text can be a lot for students to take in fully. Being able to break up the texts into different parts can help the student analyze each text and then mend all of them together. How this relates to the CCSS is the fact that the CCSS is broken up as well. The Common Core State Standards are broken up by different standards for different grade levels. The way that these standards are broken up are related to the NES because they each are divided which help the teachers and the students understand the content better. If the CCSS were all connected, ...

Everybody is a Reader providing students with the opportunity to choose their own book strengthens their self-confidence and rewards their interests free voluntary reading if everyone is doing it, it becomes part of the class's culture requiring 40 books to read 10-20 books is not enough to install a love for reading read with your students students who enjoy the social aspects of school read when it is required to participate in the culture of a class reading notebooks conference meetings about the students and their books, assessing what they're liking and disliking about the book they chose talk about books be enthusiastic about reading, wiling to share opinions and willing to share about their books reading improvement plans commit to a certain amount of reading per day, choose books that personally interest you, reflect on your struggles Teaching Methods free-reading time in the classroom stop reading novels they ignore what students ...

Something that was shocking to me while reading was how important all of the little things are in everything that we do as teachers. I remember doing little bubble outlines before writing a paper and I thought it was so silly to do those because to me, it was kind of pointless. I, personally, felt like my papers were better when I would just write. That is when I felt like my creative side came out was when I would do surprised timed-writes. There would be no specific structure and my brain would just shut off and I would write. I feel like now, being in college, I do find that I use those little outlines a little bit more but not to that extent. I am so sick of the typical 5 paragraph essay with the introduction, 3 body paragraphs, and conclusion. I feel like although it is helpful to begin with, every single student relies on that format and it is killing a student's creativity!! That is why I loved the timed writes. I also loved them because I feel like they helped me write in d...