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In this installment of the morning message series, Ruth Metcalfe unlocks a wide range of opportunities to support learning in any content area.
Jennifer Schwanke and Franki Sibberson share four perspectives on student-led conferences — teacher, principal, student, and parent.
Julie Cox reminds us that for many students, the loneliness and fear of COVID years clings like smoke, and they don’t always have the language to talk about it. While we have worked hard at helping students reclaim content knowledge, we must also help them express and process feelings they might not know how to recognize.
The possibilities for differentiation during morning message are almost endless. Ruth Metcalfe highlights ways to meed a wide variety of needs via morning message.
There is much debate in today’s educational landscape around what and how to teach young readers about print. No matter what your classroom realities are around teaching how sounds, words, and language work, Ruth Metcalfe attests that using a morning message is an engaging way to support word study and conventions.
Jen Court shares the way whiteboards and conversation lifted pressure from student writers so they could create poetry.
Jennifer Schwanke questions the routines of how wall displays are used in classrooms.
Time is precious in classrooms, so Melanie Meehan shares strategies to ensure it isn't wasted at the start of new writing units by teaching skills students may already possess.
Christy Rush-Levine explores the way a shift in assessment questions can give students ownership of their thinking and responsibility for developing meaning from a text.
Spend time with the youngest writers and you will be mesmerized by their writing processes. Ruth Ayres assembled a field experience focused on kindergarten writers.
Barbara Coleman finds classroom tours are a terrific professional development activity early in the year, fostering unexpected collaboration among colleagues.
Jennifer Jones reflects upon the “teacherisms” in writing workshops — the language we use that defines our values and routines.
Katherine Sokolowski has suggestions for Skype use in classrooms, covering everything from student etiquette to special events.
Melissa Styger finds she needs to make changes to her just-right book lesson to meet the needs of her third-grade students.
The words prompting and support appear often in the kindergarten Common Core State Standards. Mandy Robek analyzes what prompting and support looks and sounds like in her kindergarten classroom by using a video example.
Ann Marie Corgill shares how she organizes materials for literacy learning in the third installment of her design series.
Handwritten notes have timeless appeal, and great value for teachers and literacy leaders.
One skill at a time — here are some suggestions for a step-by-step approach to learning how to take good observational notes in the classroom.
Welcome your students to school by honoring their cultures — this diverse list is just right for diverse classrooms.
Sometimes it takes a village to help a preschooler feel a part of the group, especially one who cries almost all the time. Kelly Petrin finds her young students have more empathy and resiliency than she imagined when she enlists their support.
Mallory Messenger emphasizes the importance of providing time for students to share their learning and offers different formats for a share session. Mallory guides us in making decisions so that share time consolidates and uplifts the learning.
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