C.R.A.F.T. = Creative Reading Activities For Teachers

1. C.R.A.F.T. = Creative Reading Activities For Teachers Presented By: LaAlice Hopkins 2nd grade Teacher, Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools Baskerville Elementary www.pinterest.com/laalice http://nrms.schoolwires.net//Domain/4028

2. Objectives • Participants will be able to apply new information and ideas to their lesson plans and activities. • Participants will increase knowledge of how to incorporate the Common Core standards into the area of reading. • Participants will apply critical thinking skills to reading lessons.

3. Get Ready to Make Your Mind Sweat!

4. *What does your reading block/time look like?

5. Quotes • “Children can learn to read easily without being taught, by being read to, by playing games with words, and by falling head over heels in love with books.” ~Mem Fox

6. *Why Read Aloud? • Benefits to vocabulary • Benefits to reading comprehension • Creates a classroom community • Readers are able to hear the teacher model fluency and expression • It’s in the Common Core • Motivation to your students Let’s read…

7. Common Core Speaking & Listening • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.2 Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood. • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1.2 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.2 Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

8. *Using Technology • Find YouTube Videos of storybooks • http://www.storylineonline.net/ Books read by famous actors • http://www.readinga-z.com/ • http://www.raz-kids.com/main/Login/

9. Reading Strategies • Connect: Background knowledge & experiences, making connections text to self, world, text • Predict: What is text going to tell you, anticipate what might happen next • Infer: Use clues & your schema, figure out what’s not directly stated • Visualize: Using your senses, making a movie in your head

10. Reading Strategies • Question: Monitor your understanding by asking questions when things don’t make sense • Summarize: Identify the most important ideas or information, classify what your read, infer & draw conclusions • Evaluate: What is your opinion of the text and how well do you understand, determine author’s purpose

11. Connecting Common Core to Pictures • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.K.7 With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts). • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.7 Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events. • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, andhow to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

12. *Using Pictures & Blooms Taxonomy to Increase Learning Sequencing Drawing Conclusions

13. Questioning Main Idea Real & Fantasy Fact or Opinion

14. Retell Center • K.RL.1 - With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. • K.RL.2 - With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details. • K.RL.3 - With prompting and support, identify characters, setting and major events in a story. • Read a book a couple of times with the students. The last day as a retell. Then incorporate the center and materials to go with the book for them to work on CCS standards to review the book.

15. Draw a picture to represent a connection you made to the text. • State a question you still have after reading this story. • Summarize the story in one sentence. • What would you change about the main character? Why? Pass the BuckActivity When Sophie Gets Angry – Really, Really Angry, Molly Bang The Relatives Came, Cynthia Rylant Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Judith Viorst

16. *Jigsaw Cooperative Learning Strategy Builds comprehension Improves listening, communication, & problem solving Reading Rockets Website http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/jigsaw/

17. Common Core Anchor Standard CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.1 Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

18. *Inference Investigators • What you see (evidence) + what you already know (schema) = Create a new meaning • What’s in the teachers bag? Trash? • Picture Carousel • Use commercials • Books

20. Making Inferences

21. Inference with Commercials What did the dog do? What is your evidence?

22. *Inference Books

23. Visualization Activities • My Neighbor’s Dog is Purple by Jack Prelutsky • The Green Giant by Jack Prelutsky • Read portions of a story without showing the pictures

24. Common Core Standards • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.6 Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly. • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1.3 Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to gather additional information or clarify something that is not understood. • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.7 Participate in shared research and writing projects clarify something that is not understood

25. Hey, Little Ant • Persuasive Argument • http://collier.k12.fl.us/WebLessons/WebQuest/heylittleant/index.htm • Complete webquest as a group projects • Create a poster to either save or squish the ant • Have a debate • Reading Theater

26. *Think, Huddle Listen to the story being read and then in your group put the story together in the correct sequence using pictures. There was an old lady books by Lucille Colandro Stuck by Oliver Jeffers Alligator Baby by Robert Munsch

27. Dog Breath by Dav Pilkey • Write your own Silly Problem Animal Story • Create a solution to freshen the dog’s breath • Characters, predicting, problem/solution

28. Let’s Get Excited to Read! Readbox Reading Raffle

29. Reading Fair Musical Chairs Reading

30. Q & A