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Bitsy Parks shares how she starts the day with literacy in her first-grade classroom.

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Bitsy Parks describes her process over the years in increasing both the quality and quantity of read alouds in her first-grade classroom.

Reminder Notes

Bitsy Parks teaches her first graders to write sticky note reminders throughout the day, and is delighted by the learning and community building that ensues.

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First-Grade Conferring: A Two-Word Picture Book

Bitsy Parks shows how even the simplest picture book can lead to powerful conferring. In this example, a first-grade English language learner is reading a picture book that uses only two words in the text.

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