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Publishing Routines Podcast
Publishing routines is the theme of this week’s Big Fresh.
A Student Book of Awesome
Gretchen Schroeder’s high school students build community by creating a shared text of things they love.
Small-Group Instruction: Bookmaking
Brian Sepe shares one of his favorite activities for small groups of young learners: making books together.
Building Writer Relationships with Author Studies
Matt Renwick shares creative ways teachers in his school celebrate authors.
Book Series Joy
Bitsy Parks shares the way a series study enriches the reading lives of students and serves as an intervention to help readers grow.
Word Learning Podcast
Word learning is the theme of this week’s Big Fresh.
Making Something Together: Shared Writing Online
Tammy Mulligan finds shared writing is her go-to strategy for teaching young learners online.
Humor in Literacy Workshop Podcast
Humor in Literacy Workshop is the theme of this week’s Big Fresh.
It’s Not Wrong. It’s Almost Right.
Melanie Quinn reconsiders how she teaches spelling in her fourth-grade classroom, establishing a new whiteboard routine.
Using Humor to Teach Language Standards
Teaching parts of speech is viewed as dreary work for most teachers. Melanie Meehan shares how you can infuse some fun into it with a little bit of humor.
Supporting Students as They Exit Intervention with Series Books
Tara Barnett and Kate Mills write about the power of series books in helping young readers build skills and independence as they exit intervention programs.
Engaging Students with Humor
Mark Levine finds humor is the “secret sauce” in engaging middle school students and including introverts in the classroom community.
Read Alouds in Content Classes
Mark Levine explains the many ways read alouds can enhance and deepen learning for middle school students in content areas like social studies and science.
Digital Interactive Read Alouds
Tara Barnett and Kate Mills share everything from useful prompts to the best tech tools for moving interactive read alouds to digital platforms during remote instruction.
Issues Overload
Shari Frost finds that the issues students may be dealing with in some children’s books can be overwhelming. She shares some of her favorite books for grappling with one troubling topic at a time.
Changing How I Teach Small Groups
Tammy Mulligan listens to students and adapts her small-group instruction as they share how they learn.
Learning Standards: No Best Way
Jen Schwanke provides some critical questions for teachers to ask when they are interpreting a standard and bringing it to life with students.
Data That We Can Trust
Matt Renwick finds the data closest to the students we serve is more helpful to teachers than many benchmarks or screener scores.
Preparing for Book Club Discussions
Tara Barnett and Kate Mills find that book clubs succeed when students are given thoughtful tools to prepare for them.
See Your Students
Shari Frost explains why the simple act of “seeing” students can have such a potent effect in building a community of learners.
Using Picture Books for Rhetorical Analysis
Gretchen Schroeder finds that picture books are the perfect tool for rhetorical analysis with her high school students.
Picture Books for Mental Wellness
Mandy Robek learns a lot about worry from her daughter, and discovers a treasure trove of picture books to promote mental wellness and help students cope with difficult emotions.
Choice in Literacy Workshops
What makes choice authentic in literacy workshops? Christy Rush-Levine grapples with this tough question that leads to changes in her instruction.
Nurturing Independent Reading Lives in Middle School
Tara Barnett and Kate Mills share their favorite strategies for building a classroom community of readers where everyone has several options for choosing their next book.
Fostering Cultural Awareness Through Book Clubs
Gretchen Schroeder’s students are almost all white and live in a rural community. She finds book clubs are a wonderful tool for expanding cultural awareness.
Meet Someone New Monday: Using Picture Book Biographies to Bring Marginalized Voices into the Classroom
Melissa Quimby creates “Meet Someone New Monday” to inspire students with picture book biographies of little-known artists, activists, and citizens who accomplish remarkable feats.
Flipping Literature Discussions
Gretchen Schroeder realizes her experiences from decades ago as a student are clouding her perspective on “flipped” literature discussions. Once she gets over her biases, she finds that online discussion of literature is a powerful equalizer for student voices.
Building Online Writing Groups
Leigh Anne Eck lists critical questions teachers might ask themselves as they build online writing communities where everyone is comfortable giving and receiving feedback.
Using Photographs in Remote Learning Communities
Bitsy Parks shares how she and her first-grade students used photography to bridge the distance between home and school this spring, learning lessons she is using this fall in remote learning contexts.
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