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By stretchberry

Hang in there! I've been in your shoes and can truthfully say that it does get easier to make sense of everything. :)

There are some comprehension strategies rubrics here that you can use for assessments and grades.
I really like this one (pdf).

Vocabulary instruction will be part of your mini-lessons. If you look in the Revisiting book on p. 85, you'll see vocabulary listed in the "Reading Skills Mini-Lessons Topics" in the "Decoding skills" section. The site linked above has a document called "Vocabulary Ideas from Deb Smith" that might give you some ideas for planning for vocabulary mini-lessons--click

here (Word doc)."

Go to this link and download all the chapters of Strategies That Work (or buy the book if you have the funds). Chapters 6-11 have examples of books and strategy lessons that you can use. Just reading the lessons will give you a new sense for seeing how other books fit well with certain strategies. You'll probably be able to figure out how some of your basal stories can be used. Click here for a list of more picture books that can be used for teaching comprehension strategies.

Your students are lucky to have a teacher who's willing to learn something new too! :D

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