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Defining the Principal’s Role
Jennifer Schwanke talks about the importance of school leaders building a sense among teachers and families of how literacy is the foundation for all learning in classrooms.
Stretching Writing in First Grade with Details
Bitsy Parks makes the home-school connection with first grader Grace early in the year as she writes about her birthday party. Bitsy encourages Grace to stretch her writing with more...
Coaching Minute: Building Coach and Specialist Collaboration
Cathy Mere and Kelly Hoenie talk about the importance of more collaboration between literacy coaches and reading specialists, and how to foster it.
Small Group: Creativity
Franki Sibberson pulls together a group of fifth graders to explore writing mentors together.
Opinion Proof Lesson
In this minilesson, Christy Rush-Levine helps her students create an "opinion proof chart" in their notebooks. This exercise helps them build their skills in backing up opinions with evidence.
Student-Led Minilesson: Annotating Reading with Sticky Notes
Reagan from Franki Sibberson's fifth-grade classroom presents a minilesson on annotating reading with sticky notes.
Crafting the Basics: First-Grade Writing Conference
Bitsy Parks confers with Aubrey early in the year, connecting key text elements such as title, author, and the links between images and text to mentor texts used in whole-class...
Talk in a Fifth-Grade Girls’ Book Club
Tammy Mulligan leads a demonstration small group designed to help fifth-grade girls talk more thoughtfully and naturally in a book club. The demonstration includes a planning session and debrief with...
Exploring Dystopian Literature: Fifth-Grade Reading Conference
Katherine Sokolowski confers with Ian about The Giver, suggesting other dystopian novels he might enjoy next.
Revising Literary Analysis Essays: Supporting Claims
Christy Rush-Levine uses an analogy about putting furniture together to present a minilesson to her eighth-grade students about revising their literary analysis essays.
Coaching Minute: Using Video with Literacy Coaches
Cathy Mere shares four quick tips to help literacy coaches use video thoughtfully in professional development and hone their own instructional skills.
Thoughtful Read Aloud Structures
Franki Sibberson shares how she integrates student choice and collaboration into reading response during daily read alouds in her fifth-grade classroom. The book she is reading is The Girl Who...
Analyzing Voice: Conferring with Griffin
Gigi McAllister helps fourth grader Griffin reengage with his writing by pointing out some of the unique qualities of voice and style in his piece.
Clapping Syllables Routine in First Grade
Bitsy Parks works with her first graders early in the year to teach them the basics of how words are constructed, by clapping through syllable counts.
Practical Advice for Dealing with Messy Handwriting
Do struggles with handwriting matter? They do when a student can't even decipher his own words. Katherine Sokolowski confers with fifth grader Sauvi to help him find solutions to the...
First-Grade Writing Conference: Celebrations to Suggestions
Katrina Edwards begins her conference with first grader Allen by celebrating all he is doing well in his writing. She highlights his language and details in writing before moving on...
Reading The Crossover: Fourth-Grade Reading Group
Gigi McAllister leads a group of boys who are just starting the novel-in-verse The Crossover in her fourth-grade classroom.
First-Grade Conference: Finding Seeds in Writing
Katrina Edwards confers with a first grader, Holden, and helps him unpack a narrative to use as seed writing.
Evidence Claims in a Middle School Small Group
Christy Ruth-Levine leads a small group of eighth graders as they explore how to include textual evidence in their literary analysis essays.
Reading Minilesson: A Good Partner
Katrina Edwards helps her first graders early in the year transition to more thoughtful reading partnerships through a minilesson at the start of the morning workshop.
First-Grade Word Learning with Kinesthetics
Katrina Edwards teaches her first graders the word much using kinesthetics.
