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Case Studies All Year Long
Kathy Provost and Heather Fisher talk with reading specialists about the value of following a case study over an entire year.
Planning a Family Literacy Night
Heather Fisher and Kathy Provost work with a group of reading specialists to plan a family literacy night.
Author Visit: Small as an Elephant
Jennifer Richard Jacobson answers questions from a fourth-grade class that has just finished a read-aloud of her book Small as an Elephant.
Minilesson: Writing a Mentor Text
In this minilesson, Gigi McAllister uses her own writing as a model for adding character traits to a draft.
Exploring Goals in Fiction
Gigi McAllister meets with a group of fourth-grade girls who are all using picture books to explore larger themes or the goals of the main characters.
First-Grade Conferring: A Two-Word Picture Book
Bitsy Parks confers with a first-grade English language learner over a very simple picture book.
Reflecting and Planning for Summer Reading
Tammy Mulligan helps Katie, a sixth grader who lacks confidence in her reading abilities, reflect on her strengths and make plans for summer reading. This demonstration conference includes a prebrief...
First-Grade Demonstration Group: Why Read?
A first-grade teacher shares a guilty secret: she isn't sure some of her students have an innate sense of the value of reading. Clare Landrigan leads a demonstration group to...
Coaching Minute: Lesson Planning Form
Kathy Provost and Heather Fisher talk about the value of using a lesson planning form with teachers as a shared record of plans, action, and reflection in coaching sessions. The...
Grammar Instruction in Fourth Grade
Melanie Meehan coaches a fourth-grade teacher who is trying to improve his grammar instruction.
“Old Age Sticks”: Choral Reading and Reflection
Christy Rush-Levine leads her eighth graders in a choral reading and analysis of the E. E. Cummings poem "Old Age Sticks." This is the second video in a two-part series....
Exit Slips for Reflection and Planning
In this video, Kathy Provost and Heather Fisher use exit slips to assess the success of a professional development session and plan next steps.
Coaching Minute: Selecting Books for Teachers
Kathy Provost and Heather Fisher share some criteria for selecting books for teachers to open doors and conversations.
Coaching Minute: Better Data Meetings
In this brief video, Heather Fisher and Kathy Provost explain why turning data meetings over to reading specialists has had such a positive effect on schools in their district. ...
Good Questions for Group Discussions
Gigi McAllister helps a group of fourth graders evaluate questions for fostering good group discussions.
Morning Greeters
Katrina Edwards has morning helpers who start each day with a greeting for every child in her first-grade classroom.
First-Grade Partner Reading
Clare Landrigan leads a demonstration lesson to show first-grade reading partners how to work together. The demonstration includes a prebrief and debrief with the teacher.
Environmental Group Notes
Katherine Sokolowski meets briefly with a group of fifth-grade girls to go through the notes they are taking for their environmental studies project and talk through next steps.
Planning Family Literacy Night
Heather Fisher and Kathy Provost work with a group of reading specialists to plan a family literacy night.
Confidence Through Poetry
In this demonstration conference, Clare Landrigan works with Lexi, a student who is developing confidence as a writer through exploring poetry, and transferring that learning to other subject areas. The...
Heart Words
Katrina Edwards demonstrates a daily word work activity with her first-grade students in which they use oral and kinesthetic routines to master new words they should "know by heart." ...
