Katie DiCesare confers with first grader Ava about crafting beginnings and endings in nonfiction writing.
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Katie DiCesare has worked as an educator for over 20 years in a number of roles including kindergarten, first, and second grade, primary literacy support and middle school math teacher.
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In this read-aloud lesson from Katie DiCesare's first-grade classroom, Katie demonstrates the importance of picture reading using the wordless picture book The Zoo by Suzy Lee.
Katie DiCesare brings together a group of her first-grade students who are reading nonfiction, helping them to expand the ways they share what they are learning with classmates.
Tammy Mulligan works with two seven-year-olds to teach them strategies for building reading stamina.
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