Using Using the Text to Help You Activity, students use information gained from illustrations and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text.

Using the Ask Me About It Speaking and Listening Activity, students tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.

Using the Help is On the Way Asking Questions Activity, students produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification.

Using Gold Medal Reading Strategies Activity, students read grade-level text with purpose and understanding using graphic organizers for support.

This Using New Words From Books Activity helps studentsto use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.

Using Who What When Where Why How Activity, students ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

Using Barnyard Prefix Matching Activity, students match prefixes to their definitions to build their vocabulary.

Using the Can You Tell Us More? Speaking and Listening Activity, students ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to deepen understanding of a topic.

Using Exploring New Words Prefix Activity, students will use prefix and base cards to create new words and then define the each new word.

Using Irregular Plural Nouns Activity, students match singular and plural nouns to build their understanding of proper usage.

Using Drawing to Add Details Activity, students add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions to provide additional detail.

Using Position Words Butterfly Activity, students choose a word from the box to describe where the butterfly is located in relation to the object to build their positional word vocabulary.

Using the After Reading Discussion Cards, students actively engage in group reading activities to discuss purpose and understanding after shared reading.

Using Drawing Details Activity, students add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions to provide additional detail.

Using Santa's Compound Cookies Activity, studentsput together his cookies to form compound words to figure out what Santa wants for Christmas.

Using Punctuation Pow Activity, students read provided sentences and determine which punctuation needs to be included to build their writing skills.

Using Clothing Words Activity, studentspractice spelling and writing clothing-related vocabulary through a variety of strategies.

UsingAre We There Yet Asking Sentences Activity, students practice reading question and declarative sentences with correctly fluency and intonation.

UsingDon't Wake the Librarian Sorting Books by Genre Activity, students will "return" books to the library based on genre type without waking the librarian!

Using this Silent E Sundaes Activity , students practice spelling and reading CVC-silent e words by assembling ice cream sundaes to build reading fluency with CVCe words.