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Setting Up Routines: Writing to Make Strong Relationships with Students and Parents
I have to admit, this is one of my favorite times of the year. I love the excitement of getting to know a whole new group of students. I enjoy deliberating on my classroom furniture and thinking about how to design my room. I thrive off of creating new routines that will make my classroom […]
Organizing the Classroom: Eradicate Pencil Woes
Yes, a post about pencils. How is it that something as small as a pencil can cause so much grief for teachers? At times it is the bane of our existence. Students not having pencils when it’s time to write, students having pencils when they should be listening, students sharpening pencils for hours on end, […]
Generating Writing Topics the First Week of School
** Contact us if you would like to have our evidence-based, engaging Writers’ Workshop session come to your campus! ** “I don’t have anything to write about Miss…” This phrase was all too familiar in my classroom when I began Writers’ Workshop. Regardless of the grade I taught, first, fifth, or eighth, the students would resist writing. […]
Instructional Coaching: Editing in a Writers’ Workshop, Day 1 – Sentences
Before I begin, I know that very few people truly love editing. It’s one of those things that is black and white but seems to have so many rules and exceptions that leave most of us confused. From teaching editing skills myself, I am keenly aware of how many rules I didn’t know well enough to teach. I […]
Instructional Coaching: Modeling a Think-Aloud
** Contact us if you would like to have modeled lessons or workshop-style sessions come to your campus! ** Last month I had the pleasure of modeling a think-aloud in third grade. I was asked to model the process of sharing with students the reading strategies I am using as well as the Gradual Release of […]
Instructional Coaching: Guided Reading
** Contact us if you would like to have Guided Reading modeled or a workshop-style session come to your campus! ** Last month I was asked to model a Guided Reading lesson in second grade. I was told the students’ instructional level was L, mostly because of comprehension. For the model lesson I wanted to highlight four […]
Balancing Literacy Instruction. Part Three: Fiction VS Nonfiction
Welcome to Part Three of my series on balancing literacy instruction! Is fiction or nonfiction more important for students? (We’ll save the non-fiction or nonfiction argument for another time…) Just joining us? Make sure you check out the first two posts in this series: Challenging Text VS Instructional Level Text and Explicit Instruction VS Implicit Instruction Part Three: Fiction VS Nonfiction If you […]