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Using Whiteboards Before Writer’s Notebooks
Jen Court shares the way whiteboards and conversation lifted pressure from student writers so they could create poetry.
Quick Take: Special Library Shelves
Christy Rush-Levine shares a few special shelves in her classroom library.
Word Study Literacy Team Meeting
An elementary literacy team discusses word learning in the context of student assessment results as part of a yearlong inquiry into word study.
Avoiding Implementation Through Lamination
Jennifer Schwanke questions the routines of how wall displays are used in classrooms.
Maximizing Instructional Time at the Start of a New Unit
Time is precious in classrooms, so Melanie Meehan shares strategies to ensure it isn't wasted at the start of new writing units by teaching skills students may already possess.
Author Studies for Primary Students
Jen Court shares the benefits of an author or illustrator study and offers tips for getting started in primary grades.
Choice in Assessment
Christy Rush-Levine explores the way a shift in assessment questions can give students ownership of their thinking and responsibility for developing meaning from a text.
Field Experience: Kindergarten Writers
Spend time with the youngest writers and you will be mesmerized by their writing processes. Ruth Ayres assembled a field experience focused on kindergarten writers.
Classroom Tours: Learning from Colleagues
Barbara Coleman finds classroom tours are a terrific professional development activity early in the year, fostering unexpected collaboration among colleagues.
Writing Workshop Teacherisms
Jennifer Jones reflects upon the “teacherisms” in writing workshops — the language we use that defines our values and routines.
Teaching Punctuation Through Shared Reading in Kindergarten
Mandy Robek explains with a video example how “interruptions” from students can deepen the shared reading experience. In this case, her kindergarten class is exploring punctuation.
Using Skype in the Classroom
Katherine Sokolowski has suggestions for Skype use in classrooms, covering everything from student etiquette to special events.
A Just-Right Lesson for Just-Right Books
Melissa Styger finds she needs to make changes to her just-right book lesson to meet the needs of her third-grade students.
Prompting and Support: Understanding the Language of the Common Core in Kindergarten
The words prompting and support appear often in the kindergarten Common Core State Standards. Mandy Robek analyzes what prompting and support looks and sounds like in her kindergarten classroom by using a video example.
Name Practice in Kindergarten
Max Brand uses a name chart with his kindergarten English language learners to teach letters and sounds, and build community.
Organizing Materials to Support Literacy Learning (Classroom Design Series Part 3)
Ann Marie Corgill shares how she organizes materials for literacy learning in the third installment of her design series.
In Praise of Handwritten Notes
Handwritten notes have timeless appeal, and great value for teachers and literacy leaders.
Notetaking Series Part II: Honing Your Notetaking Skills, One Strategy at a Time
One skill at a time — here are some suggestions for a step-by-step approach to learning how to take good observational notes in the classroom.
First Day of School Read-Alouds with Global and Multicultural Perspectives
Welcome your students to school by honoring their cultures — this diverse list is just right for diverse classrooms.
A Hand to Hold: Crying and Community in Preschool
Sometimes it takes a village to help a preschooler feel a part of the group, especially one who cries almost all the time. Kelly Petrin finds her young students have more empathy and resiliency than she imagined when she enlists their support.
Test: Weekly Poetry Response
Ruth Ayres cautions us to not let our pet peeves get in the way when working with student writers.
Inside and Outside Views Minilesson
Ruth Ayres leads a minilesson in second grade on inside/outside views — what’s happening objectively (on the outside) vs. emotions (on the inside). The terms are a good starting point for helping young students distinguish between facts and opinions.
Philanthropy and Literacy: Wrap-Up
In this second video in a two-part series, Beth Honeycutt and Rita Schaeffer help their eighth-grade students understand the concept of philanthropy.
Intentional Consolidation and Closure
Mallory Messenger emphasizes the importance of providing time for students to share their learning and offers different formats for a share session. Mallory guides us in making decisions so that share time consolidates and uplifts the learning.
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