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What Difference Does Difference Make?
Mary Lee Hahn begins the year with honest and open discussions with her fifth-grade students about diversity.
Classroom Environment: Access to Supplies
Melanie Swider believes access to supplies is crucial for student independence, and she even has students in charge of monitoring and replenishing materials. This is the final installment in Melanie's classroom environment series.
Growth Lines
Deb Gaby thinks about the importance of baseline information early in the school year.
I Don’t Want to Know What You Did Last Summer: Rethinking Narrative Nonfiction
Stella Villalba rethinks the seemingly innocuous “What did you do last summer?” writing assignment at the start of the year, especially for children who may have more limited experiences than peers.
Classroom Environment: Bulletin Boards
Melanie Swider shares her favorite bulletin boards, another installment in her classroom design series.
Doodlebug
What makes a teacher memorable? Recognizing a child's passions from the very first day of school. Jennifer Schwanke recounts how her second-grade teacher did just that.
Beyond Cute: Print Rich with Purpose
Shari Frost cautions against overly stylized text in wall displays.
The Big Fresh August 8, 2015 Cold Pool
We look at bulletin boards and wall displays in this week’s Big Fresh.
Adding Dialogue to Writing: Conferring with Sam
Karen Terlecky confers with Sam about adding dialogue to writing in her fifth-grade classroom.
The Big Fresh August 1, 2015 What’s Worth Keeping
Routines and schedules are the focus of this week’s Big Fresh.
Back to Basics: Routines in Writing Workshops
Ruth Ayres considers what's essential in writing workshop routines.
Easing into Workshops: Routines in Third Grade
This quick and silent time-lapse video shows the arrival routine in Leslie Lloyd’s third-grade classroom.
Reading Workshop Routines in First Grade
Bitsy Parks explains the routines and procedures in her first-grade reading workshop.
Perfect Frosting and Workshop Routines
Things start to fall apart in a classroom when a beloved teacher is replaced with a long-term substitute. Deb Gaby shares how an analogy helps the class get back on track.
The Big Fresh July 25, 2015 The Power of a Read Aloud
Read alouds early in the year are the focus of this week’s Big Fresh.
Read Alouds as “Third Things”
Katherine Sokolowski uses read alouds early in the year to help students reflect on how to be kind and thoughtful members of a classroom community.
Bring Back Read Aloud
Jennifer Schwanke interviews older students and discovers their most beloved memories of elementary school involve read alouds.
Strategies for Using Reader’s Notebooks
Melanie Swider enhances read alouds and the entire reading workshop with creative uses for reading notebooks.
Fourth-Grade Read Aloud: Checking In
In this video from a fourth-grade classroom, Gi Reed reads aloud Small as an Elephant by Jennifer Richard Jacobson. Gi continually checks in with her students, making sure they are visualizing, noticing new vocabulary, and making connections to earlier incidents in the texts—all without breaking the flow of the story.
Creating a Classroom Environment That Supports Community Building and Independence
Melanie Swider shares how classroom design is linked to community building.
More Than Dr. Seuss Hats: Why Events Matter
Franki Sibberson explains how scheduling big events can do important work in building the reading community.
The Big Fresh July 18, 2015 Close Reading a Community
We look at building community in the early days of school in this week’s Big Fresh.
The Beginnings of a Middle School Literacy Community
What do you do on day one? Christy Rush-Levine describes the routines in her middle school classroom.
Using a Strategy Card in a Reading Conference
Deb Gaby confers with second grader Reagan early in the school year. She is reading her first chapter book, and using a reading strategies “tool kit” for support.
Potato the Crow: Blurring the Lines Between Reality, Fantasy, and Play with Young Learners
Leslie Woodhouse discovers a dollar store find takes on a life of its own in her preschool classroom in this delightful essay.
The Big Fresh July 11, 2015 Catching Your Breath
Classroom libraries are the focus of this week’s Big Fresh.
Curating a Classroom Library
Katherine Sokolowski explains why it is important to sort and weed out books carefully before the new year begins.
Classroom Environment: Classroom Libraries
Melanie Swider looks at classroom library design as part of her classroom environment series.
Shaking Off the Village
Shirl McPhillips writes of the glories of summer walks for teachers in her latest poem and reflection.
The Big Fresh June 27, 2015 Giving Thanks
Oral language is the focus of this week’s Big Fresh.
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