Elementary Four Blocks Lesson Plans
Activities
| Overview
Chart in MS Word
The Power of Retelling Chart |
Making
Words Homework Sheet
Here is a Making Words Take Home Sheet I have put together. I set it up so I just have to type in the letters needed for the "mystery word" and then print off the page. |
Ninety Most Commonly Misspelled Words List - doc | What
Looks Right - doc
These are What Looks Right? lesson cards I laminated and put on a ring. |
Balanced Reading Lesson Planner |
| Mystery
Word Match (pdf)
117 Mystery Word Matches. |
Lesson
Plan
It includes all 4 Blocks in a one-day format. |
4-Blocks Weekly Plan Sheet - Works | ||
| 4-Blocks Weekly Plan Sheet - Excel | ||||
| Writing
Block Conference Log (pdf file) I took the Writing Block Conference Log that Tenia Mason shared (What a great form!) and made a couple of changes (portrait layout, shaded boxes, comment area)." |
Writing
Conference Form (pdf file) "I like it because it gives a concise record for individual students and allows me to target various writing skills during the conference." |
Working
With Words Checklist
The activities on the Working With Words Checklist are from Month by Month Phonics, readinglady.com, teachers.net, and the book Word Matters. |
Guided Reading Checklist | Bookmarks
For First Graders (pdf)
"This collection includes one each for "Characters", "Setting", "Problem", "Solution", and "Main Idea." The document is a one page landscape layout in Adobe PDF. |
| These are some SSR materials I created after reading Modifying Four Blocks for Upper Grades. There is a poster for choosing books, bookmarks for students to use to reserve books and a genre bingo grid. | Here
is a copy of the portable word wall template I use in my classroom. I've attached a "blank" copy for teachers to be able to download and use and a "sample" of how mine looks when I make it for my students. I update my portable list every other week. |
These are the NFT word cards with prefixes in red and suffixes in green. There are also monthly plan cards that I laminated and put on a ring for easy access. | Linda Gallipoli - "I print these files & laminate them. Then, I leave them in my sub folder. That way, a sub can have a reference when doing "Be a Mind Reader" or "Using Words You Know" with my class | |
| IS THIS THE RIGHT BOOK FOR YOU - doc | Nifty Thrifty Fifty - doc | |||
| Nifty Thrifty Fifty monthly plan - doc | ||||
| Be a Mind Reader (pdf) | ||||
| Kids Word Wall List2.xls | ||||
| Reserve bookmarks - doc | Brand Name Word List - pdf | |||
| Kids Word Wall List BLANK.xls | ||||
| Using Words You Know (pdf) | ||||
| Brand Name Lessons - doc | ||||
| SSR Genre Bingo Grid - doc |
| Because
we only teach half day kindergarten, another teacher and I designed
the lesson plans and put them into a table in a Word document. We incorporated
the ideas from the Building Blocks plan book. We designed one set for
the shared reading and one for the predictable charts which we rotated
on a weekly basis. I definitely do not like spending time writing the
same thing over and over so did it this way.
Building Blocks lesson plan First Round Predictable Chart in Word Building Blocks lesson plan Second Round Names Predictable Charts in Word Building Blocks lesson plan Second Round Names Shared Reading in Word |
Enjoy these SSR Block materials put together by Ella Frazier/4th based upon an idea shared by Connie Privette during a Charles England School seminar in Lexington, North Carolina. "I am attaching bookmarks for narrative texts and expository texts, question cards that are ready to laminate and use at conferencing, and a Self Selected reading log. | Linda
Gallipoli a.k.a. Linda/2/NJ has developed forms for SSR Student Reading Conferences which address the literary elements of;
Both sets include cheery graphics and are rather large files. They will take a while to load.
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| Narrative
Bookmarks (pdf)
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| Expository Bookmarks (pdf) | ||||
| one long | ||||
| (Conferencing Question Cardspdf) | ||||
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| other
short
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| Reading Log for Self Selected Reading (pdf) |
Assessment Forms
| Assessment | Peer Evaluation | Print Concepts | SSR Conference Form | Self-Selected Reading Conference Record |
| Editing - Self-Evaluation | Writing Assessment Record | Writing Rubric | ||