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A Just-Right Lesson for Just-Right Books
Melissa Styger finds she needs to make changes to her just-right book lesson to meet the needs of her third-grade students.
Prompting and Support: Understanding the Language of the Common Core in Kindergarten
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.
Name Practice in Kindergarten
Max Brand uses a name chart with his kindergarten English language learners to teach letters and sounds, and build community.
Organizing Materials to Support Literacy Learning (Classroom Design Series Part 3)
Ann Marie Corgill shares how she organizes materials for literacy learning in the third installment of her design series.
In Praise of Handwritten Notes
Handwritten notes have timeless appeal, and great value for teachers and literacy leaders.
Notetaking Series Part II: Honing Your Notetaking Skills, One Strategy at a Time
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.
First Day of School Read-Alouds with Global and Multicultural Perspectives
Welcome your students to school by honoring their cultures — this diverse list is just right for diverse classrooms.
A Hand to Hold: Crying and Community in Preschool
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.
Inside and Outside Views Minilesson
Ruth Ayres leads a minilesson in second grade on inside/outside views — what’s happening objectively (on the outside) vs. emotions (on the inside). The terms are a good starting point for helping young students distinguish between facts and opinions.
Philanthropy and Literacy: Wrap-Up
In this second video in a two-part series, Beth Honeycutt and Rita Schaeffer help their eighth-grade students understand the concept of philanthropy.
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