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Ruth Ayres confers with Bode about the difference between personal narratives and memoirs, and the value of mining the writing journal for topics.
What makes writing notebooks authentic? Katherine Sokolowski ponders the question.
Tony Keefer takes the leap and commits to sharing more of his writing process with students.
Reading logs are the focus of this week’s Big Fresh.
Are you ready to ditch your reading logs? Not so fast. Franki Sibberson explains why she still uses them in her third-grade classroom.
Cathy Mere finds many authentic ways for her first graders to share reading insights.
Aimee Buckner confers with fourth grader Amanda about her reading comprehension and fluency, encouraging her to use a sticky note to track thinking around a focus question.
Justin Stygles develops reading passports as an alternative to traditional reading logs with his fifth- and sixth-grade students.
Classroom libraries are the focus of this week’s Big Fresh.
Andrea Smith discovers the value of more creative nonfiction book tub titles after listening to ideas from her students.
Katie DiCesare has suggestions for books to support an illustration unit early in the year.
Katherine Sokolowski looks at challenges from the previous year for ideas on reorganizing the classroom library.
Shirl McPhillips captures the fleeting joy of summer in a new poem.
We look at reader response in this week’s Big Fresh.
Ruth Ayres encourages a young writer to emulate a favorite illustrator.
Katie DiCesare’s favorite beginning unit with first graders focuses on illustration.
Franki Sibberson has suggestions for moving to more digital response options with students.
Katharine Hale has moved much of her reading response to digital boards, which are also a useful tool for formative assessment.
We consider a variety of transitions in this week’s Big Fresh.
Mandy Robek compiles a list of her favorite books for brain breaks with young learners.
Sean Moore demonstrates two different quick kinesthetic movements to help his second-grade students focus and transition between whole-class instruction segments.
Students transition between home and school with the Community Board in Andrea Smith’s classroom. It’s a lively bulletin board that is updated and discussed daily in her fourth-grade classroom.
Beth Lawson uses an LCD, whiteboard, and magnetic clips in a clever way during the transition from minilessons to independent writing in writing workshop. Students tag whether they will be working on drafts or conferring with peers as Beth completes her status of the class on the board.
Classroom design is the focus of this week’s Big Fresh.
Andrea Smith shares her best advice for library design that celebrates nonfiction as much as fiction.
Stella Villalba gives a tour of her classroom library and publishing corner designed to support the grades 1-5 English language learners she works with daily.
Help students transition back to school with minilessons that give children a strong sense of the purpose of literacy workshops.
Ruth Ayres has tips for organizing desks, tables, chairs, and materials to support literacy learning.
Maria Caplin uses a getting-to-know-you activity in the first days of school to jumpstart research reading and writing with her fifth-grade students.
We look at building relationships early in the year in this week’s Big Fresh.
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