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Note Taking for Research
Katherine Sokolowski helps her fifth graders build notetaking skills for research.
Owl Research Notes Group
Andrea Smith helps a group of boys take notes during an owl research project.
The Big Fresh May 16, 2015 From Obligation to Appreciation
Conventions are the focus of this week’s Big Fresh.
Choices for Paragraphs
Melanie Meehan finds third grade is a good age for helping students develop paragraphing skills.
Second-Grade Minilesson on Paragraphs
Ruth Ayres uses a student text to demonstrate the importance of paragraph breaks in this second-grade minilesson.
Closing Out the Year with “Where I’m From”
Jillian Heise shares a marvelous poetry writing activity for students who are transitioning from elementary to middle school, or middle to high school.
The Big Fresh May 9, 2015 A Pile of Stories
Closing out the year is the focus of this week’s Big Fresh.
Closing the Year and Making Space to Remember
Jan Burkins and Kim Yaris explain how ending the year is all about making space for memories, and provide some texts to help in the process.
Video for Last Days of School
Melanie Meehan encourages teachers to build a video collection of students at work to use with next year’s class.
Best Part of Me
Jennifer Schwanke shares a favorite activity for building community and self-esteem.
A Spring Villanelle
Shirl McPhillips highlights the pleasures and challenges of using a strict poetic form.
The Big Fresh May 2, 2015 Navigating Boston
Teaching the concept of theme is the focus of this week’s Big Fresh.
Big Idea: First-Grade Lesson
Bitsy Parks introduces her first graders to the concept of theme.
Favorite Wordless Picture Books for Teaching Inference
Jan Burkins and Kim Yaris present some of their favorite children’s books for teaching inference.
The Big Fresh April 25, 2015 What We Crave
Just-right books are the focus of this week’s Big Fresh.
Working Hard and Reading Carefully: On Theme and Rereading
Jennifer Allen uses commercials to promote the importance of rereading to students while teaching theme.
Using Picture Books to Foster Resilience
Gigi McAllister uses picture books to strengthen her fourth-grade classroom community.
Celebrating “The Voice” of Writers
Melanie Meehan presents a fun activity for late in the school year that uses the format of The Voice television series.
Supporting Readers with Nonfiction Text
Cathy Mere finds that criteria for “just-rightness” varies with genre.
Redefining Just-Right Books
Jan Burkins and Kim Yaris share advice for rethinking how teachers and students define “just-right” texts.
Using Padlet with Students
Katherine Sokolowski finds Padlet is a great tool for compiling learning and building community.
The Big Fresh April 18, 2015 Messy Inventions
Prewriting and drafting are the focus of this week’s Big Fresh.
Shared Writing in Kindergarten
Mandy Robek leads a shared-writing session in kindergarten.
Space to Draft
Ruth Ayres argues against lockstep approaches to the writing process.
Group Composing
Gretchen Schroeder finds group composing is a fun way to build community, writing skills, and understanding of how arguments work with her high school students.
Tutoring Carl: Sketching to Draft
Max Brand challenges himself to let a student take more of the lead during a writing tutoring session.
The Big Fresh April 11, 2015 Perspective
Student share sessions are the focus of this week’s Big Fresh.
The Big Fresh April 4, 2015 True Horizontal
We look at student goal setting in this week’s Big Fresh.
Setting Goals with Students
Melanie Meehan shares anchor charts and strategies for goal-setting.
Student Learning Targets
Christy Rush-Levine finds she has to rethink learning targets for her middle school students if she wants students to pursue complex and lifelong reading goals.
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