Reading Strategies Blog – Connors Education Portfolio

Story Vines

Story vines are a unique way for students to have a tactile way to help with reading comprehension and retelling storyies. This week in class, we hosted a group of grade twos and threes from a local school at Huckletberry Books for a reading of the book “The Paper Bag Princess” by Robert Munsch. This […]

Building a Classroom Library

This week’s post is about building a diverse library of classroom books and the importance of including titles by Indigenous, BIPOC, and 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals. This week’s readings from the class text Powerful Thinking” support these ideas. “It is our job as teachers to set kids on a path of knowing, wondering, and caring deeply about […]

The Wolves in the Walls.

During class, we learned about a VR experience that immerses the user in the book “The Wolves in the Walls” (link here to the experience). Our objective was to teach a literacy lesson to students in a classroom, read the book to them, and then facilitate their use of the VR so they could experience […]

Literacy Stations: Alphabet Go Fish

This week, during a visit to a kindergarten classroom, I facilitated a literacy station using Alphabet Go Fish to support early letter recognition. Students participated in four groups of four to six learners, with each group spending approximately fifteen minutes at the station. The students were excited to have us in the classroom, and I […]

Read Alouds for all Learners

During class time, we had the opportunity to work with students at a local elementary school, exploring the novel “The Inquisitive Raven” by Richard Wagamese. This process took place over three one-hour sessions, during which another teacher candidate and I read a section of the book and then worked with the students through drama and […]

The one book that changed everything

I was in my grade five class in elementary school. At this age, I had always enjoyed reading, but I saw it more as a task to be completed than as something to enjoy. Reading and comprehension were the ever-present goals of our learning. Can you not only read this text but also understand it […]