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The Importance of Visibility
Dana Murphy shares the importance of high visibility for reading interventionists and other instructional influencers in non-classroom positions.
Reading Nonfiction: A Paper Anchor Chart
Tammy Mulligan explains her thinking behind using multiple versions of an anchor chart to help students remember and personalize a process for reading nonfiction texts.
Book Matchmaker: Read Alouds That Invite Young Readers to Participate
There is nothing like a great story that naturally invites readers to join in. Our youngest students love those repeated phrases, and don’t need a prompt to jump right into...
Coaching Minute: Get Out of Your Office
David Pittman encourages instructional coaches to get out of the office in the early days of the school year. He offers several practical suggestions for how to set the tone...
Coaching Minute: Six-Week Coaching Cycle
Jean Russell explains the expectations for a six-week coaching cycle.
Coaching Minute: Supporting New Teachers
Principal Lee Snider talks about the challenges new teachers face and how principals can support them.
Kindergarten: Conferring with Grace
Hayley Whitaker confers with Grace about her writing early in the year.
Goals and How-to Writing in First Grade
Danielle French helps first grader Dakota set goals while writing her nonfiction how-to essay.
Book Matchmaker: 3rd Graders Reading Below Grade Level
Ellen is a tutor and works with 3rd grade students who are reading below grade level. Although these students are reading below grade level, they want to read...
Coaching Minute: Assisting Struggling Teachers by Being Focused
Principal Lee Snider talks about how principals can support struggling teachers by keeping the focus on instruction.
Lifting the Quality of Peer Response
Helping children learn to listen to each other well and give feedback takes a great deal of time. For many years, I just assumed that kids intuitively knew how to...
Writing Partner Feedback in Fifth Grade
In this video, partner teams in Franki Sibberson's fifth-grade class share their drafts and ask for specific feedback on their opinion-writing pieces.
Finding Topics in Writer’s Notebooks Minilesson
Sean Moore shares the importance of using a writer's notebook to discover topics in this minilesson with his second-grade students from early in the year.
Collecting Ideas in the Writer’s Notebook
Ruth Ayres confers with third grader Jade about the value of collecting ideas in her writer's notebook, and shares some strategies for organizing the information.
Conferring with Spencer: Writing Notebook Topics
Katherine Sokolowski helps fifth grader Spencer brainstorm topics for his writing notebook.
Coaching Minute: Wearing (Too) Many Hats
Inga Omondi encourages instructional coaches to consider the many hats they wear and to remove the ones that are not serving the greater good.
Teaching Rereading During Class Read Alouds
I teach my 4th graders the power of rereading using the mentor text Goblins in the Castle by Bruce Coville. In this video, you can see we use rereading as...
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...
Revising Titles Minilesson
In this minilesson from Franki Sibberson's grades 3 and 4 classroom, Franki takes students through the process of selecting and revising titles. She uses the poem "Confessions of a Reader"...
A Minilesson on Minilessons
Franki Sibberson leads a minilesson in her fifth-grade classroom to help students design their own lessons. Students also assess what goes into a high-quality minilesson.
Integrating Vocabulary and Retelling Strategies into Read-Aloud
Stella Villalba scaffolds the language development of her first- and second-grade English language learners during read-aloud by highlighting vocabulary and providing a tool to assist with a partner retelling activity....
