"Show Me Your Thinking!" - Self-Monitoring Strategy for Comprehension

"Show Me Your Thinking" is the perfect self-monitoring strategy for primary-level students (K-2) to mark and code their understanding of a text. Using only two symbols, this strategy allows students to SHOW their comprehension.

Once the students learn how to code, they have the option of writing a happy/sad face in the margin of their paper, flipping a happy/sad face card, or placing a happy/sad face sticky note right on the page!

This product includes:

- Directions

- Photos

- 1 Poster

- 4 Sets of Self-Monitoring Cards (different styles!)

- 2 Sets of Student Thinkmarks (different styles!)

I made these recording sheets to go with a simple, yet engaging game that I use in the classroom.  

Please visit my blog for game pictures, instructions, and a similar set of winter-themed sheets:

http://teachertamseducationaladventures.blogspot.com/2012/01/ways-to-make-10-game-and-2-recording.html

The game on my blog that goes with these sheets addresses the following Common Core Math Standards for Kindergarten and first grade:

K.CC.4. Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.

When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object.

K.CC.5. Count to answer “how many?” questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1–20, count out that many objects.

K.OA.1. Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings1, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.

K.OA.2. Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem.

K.OA.4. For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation.

1.OA.4.Understand subtraction as an unknown-addend problem. For example, subtract 10 – 8 by finding the number that makes 10 when added to 8. Add and subtract within 20.

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This handy graphic organizer can be used when teaching the text-to-self connections reading strategy.  Teachers can use enlarged copy during mini-lessons, while students use smaller copies during independent reading time.

This handy graphic organizer can be used when teaching the making predictions reading strategy.  Teachers can use enlarged copy for mini-lessons, while students use smaller copies during independent reading time.

This reading guide is great to use with a literature circle or guided reading group.  Students will answer comprehension questions, complete thinking maps (webs), and have discussion starters. 

Students can use this form during Independent Reading Time to rate the books they read.  They can even use the ratings to recommend books to other students.

Economics skills are organized into one place for students to  learn, manipulate, and study with this Interactive notebook.  *The parents of my students LOVE this notebook when it comes time for their child to study for a test. *My students love making them!!  You can either add each concept throughout your unit as you go, or put it together at the end of the unit as a review and study guide.  Instructions, all graphics, captions, a rubric, and actual photos of this notebook put together are included to facilitate the project! Have fun!

This set includes 8 quality worksheets and a concentration game to help students master the homonyms known as homophones (words that are spelled differently but sound the same). Also included is a list of different homophones!

This unit was created to help fill those down times spent in the hallway waiting for the little ones to potty! These skill drills can also be used as a password when leaving and entering the classroom. These "skill drill" cards will keep your lil' darlin's engaged and covering content! Get ready to [Hup, Two, Three, Four] to a higher level of proficiency in reading and math! "Skill Drill" Cards [flash cards] include:
...dolch words [pre-primer to third grade]
...First 100 Fry Phrases
...Number Cards [used for number id, even/odd and place value]
...Telling Time Clocks [hour, half hour and quarter hour]
...Addition Flash Cards
...Counting Coin Combinations

This product has 2 pages with 4 valentine-themed patterns each for students to color according to specified patterns.  I hope your students enjoy this activity for Valentine's Day!

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