It’s time to be transparent with our students. Should it be a secret that we want them to ask more questions while they read? That we want them to read at a higher fluency level? That we want them to analyze the characters more closely? Obviously, the answer is no. Have you ever tried to […]
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Comprehension Strategy: Retell a Story
** Contact us if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to come to your campus with engaging, evidence-based, practical professional development ** For the past year, a number of districts I work with have identified reading comprehension as a target for improvement, and so I have been supporting them through explicit instruction, Guided Reading, and Readers’ […]
Choosing Books for Guided Reading
One huge component of preparing for Guided Reading is selecting books to use with your groups, and this requires some quality thinking ahead of time! It is not enough to just choose an “M” book or an “average book” from the book adoption. When choosing a book, you must take into consideration why the students […]
Best Practice: Teaching Spelling Patterns for Retention.
** Contact us if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to come to your campus with engaging, evidence-based, practical professional development ** One of my biggest inner battles when it comes to teaching is…spelling. What I knew about spelling instruction is that what I was doing wasn’t working. I was locating lists of words based on […]
Readers’ Workshop: Activate Schema with Movie Clips
** Contact me if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to come to your campus with engaging, evidence-based, and practical professional development ** Over the past five years or so, there has been a big emphasis on using media in the classroom. If you scour Pinterest for ideas on making inferences, you will find tons of pictures […]
Writers’ Workshop: Working on Sentence Fluency
** Contact us if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to come to your campus with engaging, evidence-based, and practical professional development ** About ten years ago, I read Jeff Anderson’s Mechanically Inclined and it changed writing in my classroom forever! As someone who never felt competent in their own writing, teaching writing was a daily struggle. […]
Getting Your Morphology On: Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes, Oh My!
** Contact us if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to come to your campus with engaging, evidence-based, and practical professional development ** As an education consultant, the schools I work with a wide variety of schools, but one thing I hear all the time (no matter what type of school!) is that student vocabulary is […]
Teaching and Loving Folktales, Fables, and Legends
** Contact us if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to come to your campus with engaging, evidence-based, and practical professional development ** I started off this year with teaching folktales, fables, and legends. Eventually, we will get into myths and fairy tales, but not quite yet. Every time it’s time to teach this traditional literature, […]