Melissa Styger slows down the launch of the classroom library to ensure it is a valuable resource all year.
Helping students learn to choose books and develop stamina are important to developing independent readers. Ruth Ayres designed a field experience with opportunities to see minilessons, small group instruction, team meetings and a share session that support independence in readers.
Katherine Sokolowski gives space for students to research and share their learning about 9/11 in order to build a community of writers, as well as nourish the research and writing process.
Melanie Meehan shares activities that help students talk about their characters before writing about them in a realistic fiction unit.
Leigh Anne Eck shares one way to uplift word choice of middle school writers. Through a simple and responsive system, her students are growing their vocabulary, learning parts of speech, and taking risks with more sophisticated word choice. All you need is a purple highlighter and a willingness to celebrate student voices.
Julie Cox reminds us that for many students, the loneliness and fear of COVID years clings like smoke, and they don’t always have the language to talk about it. While we have worked hard at helping students reclaim content knowledge, we must also help them express and process feelings they might not know how to recognize.
Christy Rush-Levine shares a few special shelves in her classroom library.
Katherine Sokolowski has suggestions for Skype use in classrooms, covering everything from student etiquette to special events.
Ann Marie Corgill shares how she organizes materials for literacy learning in the third installment of her design series.
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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