1. Ideas for Independent Practice and Early Finishers

2. Early Finisher Organization
Change it out weekly or monthly….
It allows students to have an extension
of previous learning
Keeps everyone busy and engaged
until others finish their task

3. Process and Product
Photographs, Newspaper/Magazine clippings for identifying cause and effect, making inferences, making a prediction, or creating an appropriate caption

4. Create a caption___________
What can we infer about this person?
(inferences)
Prediction: What do you predict she will do next?
How could we use this picture for teaching cause and effect?

5. Writing prompts for journal
Jars
Writing prompts for journal
Task cards: to do
Extension of learning
Cause and Effect
Fact v. Opinion

6. Class Gratitude Journal/ Pen Pal Project

7. Word Sorts: Sort by vowel, syllable, genre
Sort by prefix, root, suffix
Prefix bi
bimonthly
bicycle
biannually
Suffix ful
colorful
beautiful
helpful
painful

8. Ways to Classify and Sort Words
Words that start the same (beginning blend, consonant cluster or onset)
Words that end the same (rime)
Words that rhyme
Words that contain the same number of syllables (1, 2, or 3)
Words that are the same part of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.)
Words with prefixes, suffixes
Long words, short words
Words I know, words I think I know and words I don't know at all
Words with long or short vowels
Words with schwa sound
Synonyms, antonyms, compound words
Compound words
                                

9. Extension Projects
A drawing (Alexander Graham Bell’s first telephone, example)
A tangible product like a cereal box guitar (example)
A triarama (example)
Special foldable like hexagon shaped foldable of bee facts (example)
Blank graphic organizers
Library books and supplemental texts are great for reading pages you note with post its, just reading captions
Compare and contrast two people or things like spiders v. flies or Helen Keller v. Alexander Graham Bell

10. Fluency!
Fluency binder per grade level with Journeys blackline masters
has two free fluency passages per grade level
Other fluency passage sources for your level

11. What does fluency look like for you?
Phoneme/grapheme level
Word level
Phrases
Sentences
Fluency passages
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12. Graphic organizers, Story Log, Charts, Lists
Big posters with vis a vis pens OR individual charts and lists
Can be used as an early finisher activity or as a student product for independent practice during your lesson

13. Margaret’s Show and Tell
Novel study: Sarah Plain and Tall (project)
Examples of Student Work products (with Journey’s stories)
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