Spiral Warmups

Tag: Comprehension

Pins for Reading Teachers
We made these Pins for you, so you can pin, share, and spread good ideas for reading instruction. But we know there are some Negative Nellies out there… If a principal tells you, “Pinterest is not the place to get ideas,” then they’ve totally misunderstood the value of collaboration! Pinterest is the online equivalent of…
March 3, 2020
Best Main Idea (Animated Reading Comprehension)
When we say animated reading comprehension, we’re not talking about cartoons or watching YouTube. We are talking about an animated text that: drives fluency, builds schema, sets a purpose for reading, and scaffolds reading comprehension. The activity Best Main Idea is an example of animated reading comprehension, and in this post, you’ll find a few tips…
February 7, 2019
New Inferring Main Idea Warm-Ups!
We just revised spiral review 21-25: Inferring Main Ideas! The Inferring Main Idea Spiral Reviews 21-25 focus on biographies with multiple-choice and open-ended main idea questions. Students will read about Mrs. Baird’s bread business and American hero Hector P. Garcia. There are five days of warm-ups with two task card projectables each day. Multiple Choice The first card each…
December 12, 2018
Making Inferences: New Warm-Ups!
In our recent August survey, 200+ teachers overwhelming requested more making inferences task card projectables, so we just uploaded a new week of warm-ups for our Awesome Members! These are not basic inferences! You can find four weeks of basic inferences starting here, which are perfect for grades 2 and 3. These new warm-ups are…
August 26, 2018
Free Reading Comprehension Strategy Pack
UPDATE 1/8/2019: Here is our newly updated reading comprehension strategy pack for 2019. This reading comprehension strategy pack is our short set of instructional strategies that build reading comprehension strategies. It’s recently updated from the comprehension strategies that we sent in January 2018. This pack (downloadable PDF is at the end of this post) includes…
August 12, 2018
Word Fluency & Basic Inferences: Three More Weeks of Warm-Ups!
Great news for members – we just finalized the release of 3 more weeks of warm-ups! Fluency 2 Advanced Days 1-5 Fluency 2 Advanced Days 6-10 Basic Inferences 3 Fluency 2 Advanced takes students beyond the word fluency skills taught and practiced in Fluency 2, which focused on vowel digraphs. You can read more about the warm-ups…
January 30, 2018
[FAQ 4] Where Should I Start?
With so many warm-ups and skills, it’s easy to feel like a maze or a bowl of spaghetti. Let’s unjumble the pasta, and talk about where to start with your Word Study and Reading Comprehension Warm-Ups. Wherever you choose to start, remember that consistency is more important than where you start (I recommend this research…
January 20, 2018
[FAQ 3] What Comprehension Skills Are There?
Comprehension skills must be directly taught, understood, and mastered with fluency and automaticity. And that’s what the reading comprehension warm-ups help you achieve. What reading skills do the reading comprehension warm-ups focus on? Will there be more skills? These are two great questions we get all the time, so let’s answer them! What Comprehension Skills?…
January 16, 2018
[NEWS] Expanding the Comprehension Warm-Ups
We’re overwhelmed by the outstanding response to the launch of reading comprehension warm-ups and can’t wait to hear of the stories of stronger readers and writers! There are only 5 days left in the Early Adopter special where we’re essentially giving the reading comprehension warm-ups away for less than a burger on the value…
January 9, 2018
How to Use Reading Comprehension Warm-Ups
Today, I’d like to share how you can use the new reading comprehension warm-ups to build stronger readers and writers, and that’s what it’s really all about! In this post, you will read two samples scenarios showing how to use, and you will find answers to frequently asked questions about the new reading comprehension warm-ups:How do I use spiral…
January 6, 2018
Five Techniques for Daily Spiral Review (Get 233% Growth)
Achieving 233% Growth with Daily Spiral ReviewToday, I’d like to share 5 techniques that are needed for successful spiral review – and I’m talking about getting more than twice the growth compared to classrooms that don’t use daily spiral review in reading comprehension instruction! But first, a big thank you for all of the comments and…
January 3, 2018
The New Reading Comprehension Warm-Ups
We’ve been working on something for you – reading comprehension warm-ups: ideas and details, craft and structure, integration of knowledge and skills, and fluency with an appropriate level of text complexity. So far, we have 75 days of warm-ups created…we’re gathering feedback from 600+ teachers to develop the next phase, and then we’re moving into…
December 28, 2017
More Spiral Warm-Up Courses [Fall 2017 Update]
More Spiral Warm-Up Courses [Fall 2017 Update] The fall semester is going by so quickly, and I hope your students are enjoying the free word study courses including word fluency and spelling units! We’ve been busy drafting new courses…entirely new courses covering comprehension and vocabulary. And we have new word study units on the way! Spiral…
November 8, 2017