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How to teach Text-to-Text Comprehension Strategy | Writing About Reading Series (opens the original)
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How do you teach text-to-text connections in first grade without making the strategy too complicated for young readers? In this episode of The Education Connection , Robin Wilson shares the simple, step-by-step way she teaches first graders to connect one text to another as part of her Writing About Reading series . You'll hear how Robin uses a simple anchor chart with two books and a large arrow, chooses books with easy-to-find connections, and spreads the lesson across two days. She also share
How to Teach Background Knowledge for Reading Comprehension in First Grade | Writing About Reading Series (opens the original)
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How to Teach Background Knowledge for Reading Comprehension in First Grade | Writing About Reading Series How do you teach first graders to use background knowledge while reading? In this episode of The Education Connection , Robin Wilson shares a simple, first-grade-friendly way to introduce background knowledge, also called schema , as a reading comprehension strategy. Robin shares how she begins with a big-brain anchor chart and asks one simple question: “What do you know?” As students share
Retelling a Story for Reading Comprehension | Writing About Reading Series (opens the original)
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How do you teach retelling in first grade without students telling every tiny detail—or barely telling you anything at all? In this episode of The Education Connection , we're wrapping up Part One of the Writing About Reading series with a simple approach to teaching students how to retell a story using the most important details. I'll share how I use a four-square graphic organizer to help first graders plan their thinking before they begin writing. We'll talk about what to include on the graph
Teaching Main Idea, Central Message, and Moral of the Story through Writing (opens the original)
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What’s the difference between main idea, central message, and moral of the story —and how do we teach those differences to first graders without making it complicated? In this episode of The Education Connection , we’re breaking down all three skills and looking at simple, developmentally appropriate ways to teach each one. Using The Tortoise and the Hare as a familiar example, we’ll look at: • Main Idea: What is the story mostly about? • Central Message: What does the author want us to understa
How to Teach Problem and Solution | Writing About Reading Series (opens the original)
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How to Teach Problem and Solution in First Grade In this episode of The Education Connection , we're continuing our Writing About Reading series by looking at how to introduce problem and solution to our youngest readers and writers. First graders are expected to understand plot, retell stories, and identify important events. Learning to recognize a story's problem and how it is solved can help build that understanding. And first grade doesn't always have to be about mastery. Sometimes we're pla
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