Hayley Whitaker leads a minilesson in kindergarten on story structure.
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Hayley Whitaker is a kindergarten teacher in North Manchester, Indiana.
Dana Murphy realizes the best way to introduce students to reading in kindergarten is to apply the principles that work at home with her own children.
Max Brand finds standard assessments don’t always give him the information he needs when working with kindergarten English language learners, so he develops his own tool for analyzing book handling skills.
Mandy Robek finds herself overwhelmed when moving from a 3rd grade to kindergarten classroom. Her therapy? Rolling up her sleeves and designing a kindergarten classroom library.
Hayley Whitaker confers with a kindergartner and helps him make meaning through drawings.
Hayley Whitaker confers with Grace about her writing early in the year.
Max Brand demonstrates basic drawing strategies early in the year, and then has his kindergartners attempt similar pictures. He explains how the exercise builds basic skills both in literacy and hand/eye coordination.
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