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Student Storage Areas: Tips for Reorganizing
"The Sisters" (Gail Boushey and Joan Moser) talk with Kelly about strategies for reorganizing student storage areas, considering access, group supplies, and how the materials are used.
Rule of 3: Writer’s Craft Whole-Class Lesson
The "Rule of 3" is well known among writers. From "The Three Little Bears" to sets of three adjectives in descriptions, authors know clusters of three are a powerful tool...
Decluttering a Storage Area
In this time-lapse video, "The Sisters" (Gail Boushey and Joan Moser) help second-year teacher Carrie declutter a storage area in May, talking through decisions about what to keep and what...
Rule of 3: Mini-Group After Whole-Class Lesson
I often ask students who might want a little more information or help after a whole-class lesson to stay for a small group. These "mini-groups" are an important part of...
Organizing Reading Area Supplies
We design our rooms to support students as they work independently. Often this means areas throughout the room house supplies for literacy - books for independent reading, guided reading, notebooks,...
Rule of 3: Conferring
In this final video of a three-part series showing my teaching progression for Rule of 3, I confer with individual students during writing workshop, checking in to see how they...
Narrative Nonfiction in Fifth Grade, Part 1
In this lesson from a fifth-grade classroom, Aimee Buckner guides students in a notetaking process to help them understand the qualities of nonfiction narrative writing.
Crafting Characters in Writer’s Workshop
In this lesson from writer's workshop with grades 3 and 4 students, Franki Sibberson helps students analyze character traits through whole-class and partner work with the lead to The Secret...
Middle School Classroom Makeover Part III
In this third of a three-part video series, "The Sisters" (Gail Boushey and Joan Moser) help 7th grade teacher Erin declutter and rearrange her classroom. Have you ever been assigned...
Meeting Area Makeover
Meeting areas in classrooms serve many purposes: they are gathering places for students and teachers, and they also are key storage areas on the perimeter for student work, materials, and...
Book Matchmaker: Texts for “Outdoorsy” Boys
I received this request from Carolyn: "Can we tackle the age-old problem of books that get ten-year-old boys jazzed about reading? I had many boys this past year...
Tips for Displaying Student Work
In this six-minute video, "The Sisters" (Gail Boushey and Joan Moser) help a colleague dress up her displays of student work. The common mistake teachers make is to display work...
Middle School Classroom Makeover Part II
In this second of a three-part video series, "The Sisters" (Gail Boushey and Joan Moser) help seventh-grade teacher Erin declutter and rearrange the media area of the classroom, creating a...
Preparing Walls for Displays
In this four-minute video, The Sisters (Gail Boushey and Joan Moser) help a new teacher "frame up" an area of the room for future displays of student work, in a...
Conferring with Eddie
Eddie is a six-year-old student who speaks Cantonese as his first language. In this conference with Ruth Shagoury, little English is spoken, and yet there is much communication through gestures...
From Cross Checking and Retelling to Main Ideas: Helping Advanced Readers Develop Skills
In this five-minute video, Gail Boushey confers with Amanda, a second-grade student reading at a fourth-grade level early in the school year. In the conference, Gail helps Amanda set a...
Moving into “Big Fat Chapter Books”: Conferring with Elyse
In this conference with seven-year-old Elyse, Joan Moser helps her set a reading goal that will help her move into "big fat chapter books." In the debrief with Gail Boushey,...
Bookroom Tours – Part I
In this three-minute video, The Sisters (Gail Boushey and Joan Moser) take viewers on a tour of an elementary bookroom. The books are arranged by levels, with Joan and Gail...
Listing Strategy: Minilesson
Aimee Buckner confers with students after a listing strategy minilesson in writing workshop using the book This Is the Tree.
Bookroom Tours Part II
In this three-minute video, "The Sisters" (Gail Boushey and Joan Moser) continue their tours of school bookrooms. The focus in this presentation is on the checkout system used to keep...
Moving Beyond the Basics: Teaching Inferring to a Fluent Young Reader
In this conference, Gail Boushey (of "The Sisters") confers with Brandon, a reader who is becoming fluent in his reading. Gail helps him understand the concept of inferring, and Brandon...
