Related Articles
Picture Books That Affirm and Celebrate Students’ Identities

Stella Villalba shares picture books to celebrate and affirm students’ identities.

Actively Recognizing Biases

Tara Barnett and Kate Mills reflect on the ways they actively recognize their own biases and help students recognize their own.

Meaningful Conversations

Christy Rush-Levine wraps meaningful conversations about race into her curriculum instead of making it “one more thing” to squeeze into the school day.

Related Videos
Conferring to Connect: First-Grade Reading

Bitsy Parks confers with first grader Ella about the Brown and Pearl book series, and then listens to Ella read. She closes the conference by encouraging Ella to make more personal connections to books.

Connecting Reading and Thinking Minilesson

Bitsy Parks uses read alouds from earlier in September to teach the key building block of comprehension—connections.

First-Grade Reading Share: Connections

Bitsy Parks helps her first-grade students complete “thumb reflections” on making connections in reading early in the year by modeling connections from three conferences in a whole-class share session.

Loading...