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Teaching Punctuation with Poetry
Melanie Meehan discovers that the spare form of poetry is especially useful for teaching conventions.
Toward More Meaningful Extension Activities
Shari Frost challenges assignments in reading workshop that kill a love of wordplay and vocabulary development.
Teaching Revision Strategies: Introduction and Modeling
Heather Rader shares a process for teaching peer editing and revision skills that helps students learn how to assist each other kindly during writing workshop. This is the first video in a three-part series.
Teaching Revision Strategies: Partner Work
Partners confer over revision in fifth grade in this second installment of a three-part video series.
An Unconventional Scavenger Hunt: Finding Errors
Jennifer Schwanke finds that a scavenger hunt for errors to add to a bulletin board is a great way to build editing skills and a writing community all year long in her seventh-grade classroom.
The Big Fresh September 24, 2016 Soaked
We look at touchy topics in this week’s Big Fresh.
Guidelines for Posting Online
Katherine Sokolowski describes a wall display with guidelines to ensure students are respectful and aware of the pitfalls of posting online.
Beyond the Comfort Zone: Books for Our Times
Christy Rush-Levine explains why she stocks some books in her middle school classroom library that can provoke concerns from families, and how she deals with conflicts.
Replicating or Deepening?
Jennifer Schwanke finds teachers can get territorial about texts, “claiming” them for their grade level. She explores when it is appropriate to repeat the use of a text in subsequent grades.
The Pocahontas Ewww: Writing and Inquiry for Context
Mark Levine finds his middle school students are appalled by some of the cultural differences from times gone by, and shares how he fosters more understanding.
The Big Fresh September 17, 2016 Treasures or Trash
We look at formative assessment tools in this week’s Big Fresh.
How to Keep Conferring Notes
Ruth Ayres shares her grid notes sheet, and takes teachers step-by-step through the process of using this assessment tool in conferences and instruction.
Finding Clues in Writing Folders
Katrina Edwards looks for clues in her first-grade students’ work and conferences to help them develop more writing stamina. She analyzes her notes to develop instructional plans.
The Big Fresh September 10, 2016 Goals
We look at how to create smart anchor charts in this week’s Big Fresh.
Table Charts in Second Grade
Melanie Meehan chats with second-grade teacher Nadia Egan about her ingenious use of table charts to enhance conferences and whole-class instruction.
Charts as Tools, Charts as Teachers
Tara Barnett and Kate Mills give three principles they use to help avoid the “charts as wallpaper” syndrome in their fourth-grade classroom.
Padlet Possibilities
Katherine Sokolowski finds that electronic charting of learning with Padlet has almost endless possibilities for use in her fifth-grade classroom.
Collaborative Charting in First Grade
Katie DiCesare shares examples from her first-grade classroom of collaborative charting with students.
The Big Fresh September 3, 2016 Batch Work
We look at expectations and routines in this week’s Big Fresh.
Opening the Year with Optimism
Katrina Edwards shares her plans for presenting children’s literature to help her first-grade students acquire the skills they need to be positive and proactive problem solvers.
Pulling Weeds
Leigh Anne Eck works to overcome years of student reliance on a reading incentives and rewards program by fostering reflection and intrinsic motivation with her sixth graders.
Plans for Writing Circle
Stella Villalba starts writing workshop with her young English language learners by having everyone share their plans in a community circle.
Better Mondays Through Quick-Writes
Mark Levine uses quick-writes with his middle school students to set the expectation at the start of the week for work together that is independent, thoughtful, and conversational.
The Big Fresh August 27, 2016 Lindsay, Charlotte, and the Case for Sweaty Palms
We look at books children love that teachers don’t adore in this week’s Big Fresh.
Critical Thinking and Captain Underpants
Christy Rush-Levine and some struggling eighth-grade readers consider misogyny in a popular children’s book.
Adding “Girly” Books to a Next-Read Stack
Katherine Sokolowski helps a fifth grader add more "girly" books to her next-read stack.
Embracing the Books My Students Love
Franki Sibberson explains why we need to move beyond our cherished definitions of quality when working with third graders in transition and embrace the books students love.
Books That Mirror the Children in Our Classrooms
Stella Villalba shares some of her favorite children’s books that mirror the home cultures of English language learners.
The Big Fresh August 20, 2016 Armchair Experts
We look at mentors and mentor texts in this week’s Big Fresh.
Using Mentor Texts to Craft Leads
Tara Barnett and Kate Mills carefully select the first mentor text for crafting leads in their fourth-grade classroom.
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