Category: reading strategies

• Whose Independence?

  I spent quite a lot of time thinking about independence this year. It isn’t that I hadn’t considered the Declaration of Independence through the lens of equality and inequality before, but a recent PD session at Academy for Teachers helped me think about independence in a historical way that I’d not really considered. The idea…

  CherylAnne Amendola

  February 7, 2020

  alternative assessment, declaration of independence, discussion, gender, primary source, race, reading strategies, reflection, slavery, thomas jefferson

  declarationofindependence, declarationofsentiments, frederickdouglass, hardhistory

• African & American Folktales

  

  World history in 5th grade took an (even more) exiting turn prior to leaving for spring break.  Having just finished our Egypt research papers, we decided to travel to countries in East and West Africa as well as to the Carribean and Southern United States to explore how and why histories intersect through folktales.  I…

  CherylAnne Amendola

  March 21, 2019

  5th grade, Africa, black history month, reading, reading strategies, slavery, social studies, venn diagrams

  africa, blackhistorymonth, folktales, slavery

• Non-Fiction Reading Techniques

  I find that my students do their best reading when given strategies that help them navigate through text book sections. Simply saying to a thirteen year old child (or any teenager for that matter) “Read pages 13-19 this evening for homework” doesn’t provide enough instruction. In order to get a student to think carefully and…

  CherylAnne Amendola

  November 12, 2008

  education, graphic organizer, graphic organizers, highlighting, margin notes, non-fiction reading strategies, reading, reading strategies, venn diagrams