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Picking Good-Fit Books (IPICK)

Hello! I currently teach 4th grade at a bilingual school in California (French/English and Chinese/English program). We only have about two hours a day with our classes. With such limited time I was seeking advice for when students pick their own Good-Fit Books. I completely value the IPICK system...
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Books to purchase for emergent readers.

This year I am starting as a Grade 2/3 teacher. Can you please suggest a list of emergent reader books or magazines that would be appropriate (i.e. using PICK)?
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Good Fit Book Shoe Lesson

I have been using the Daily 5 for many years now and I love it. I especially like the “shoe” lesson and how that relates to picking “just right” books. I have not liked the "K’ section for the I Pick poster - especially after the Three Ways to Read a Book lesson. So today I found a solution that...
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Online Tracking System for Daily 5

Hello, I am trying to have a paperless classroom and I am really interested in having an online system where students can pick where they want to go but then it tells them what’s left… is there something like this or does anyone have any ideas?
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Summarizing in 4th Grade

What strategy do you use to teach summarizing of fictional text to 4th graders? I feel that mine are having a hard time picking out the main details of the story. They give me more of a retelling than a summary.
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I Chart

I love the design of the CAFE display and the I PICK bookmarks (with the capital letters and the red, yellow/lime, and blue fonts). Is it possible to get blank I Chart templates, to match the font and colours?
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Refusal to choose good fit books

We are having a problem with our students choosing good fit books. Majority of students can tell how to choose a good fit books and our teachers are teaching Ipick at least once a week. What do you do when students refuse to pick good fit books? We have read multiple articles and watched videos on...
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Professional Development

Looking for suggestions! I am responsible for teacher PD in January. I was thinking of making 3 or 4 small workshop type classes of 30 to 45 minutes. Teachers can pick and choose which workshop they want to attend, but will be required to do at least one. My ideas consist of strategy grouping,...
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"The Best Page Ever"

srea writes: When I talk with teachers about deciding which strategies to pick for their students, one page I always refer them to is the “Sample Needs and Strategies” sheet. The way it is set up allows myself as a reading teacher as well the classroom teacher to quickly look at the ‘what we are...
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Timely Topic--Creating a Mental Image

We’re getting to the season of “high-stakes” testing, and I’ve looking for ways to help the 4th-5th graders I work with as a reading specialist. One thing I noticed is that on their own is that they still do not automatically form mental images as they read. They can do it with me as we discuss it...

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