Elementary Entourage Secret Santa Blog Hop

Hello Friends~
I’m here today with my Elementary Entourage Collaborative Blogger friends to bring you a Secret Santa Blog Hop!!!

To explain, all of us are all of your Secret Santa’s because we all have a FREEBIE just for you!!! Happy Holidays to everyone!!!
So, you will hop along and visit each of us for a little gift!!! So here we go & enjoy:-)

My gift to you is a little free sample of a product that is almost finished… I’m a little behind schedule with it being a hectic time of year, middle of the year benchmarks and life in general. But this new product will be posted soon. I’m getting close, so I hope you enjoy this sample!

I want to talk a little about it first. This is a CLOZE, with a Z, reads product sample, Not close… Do you know the difference?

Cloze Reading is reading closure practice required when readers fill in the blanks left in text. Readers use their knowledge and prior experiences they have. Cloze Reading helps to model problem solving reading strategies. When text is omitted, readers need to use reading strategies and cues in the text to complete sentences. When using this as an instructional strategy, teachers help students focus on: phonics, visual cues, sight words, vocabulary, predicting and cross checks. This type of activity help student;s use of language structure cues, meaning cues, and background knowledge to predict unknown words.

Does anyone know about the 3rd grade Dibels DAZE assessment [screener]? Well, then you know what I’m talking about:-) I’ve included comprehension and vocabulary along with this product to complete it as well. Stay tuned to my Facebook page for updates.

So this is what I’m working on right now, but here is a free sample just for you!!!