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First-Grade Read Alouds During Transitions
This brief video is an excerpt from read aloud in a first-grade classroom during morning snack break. You'll notice that Bitsy Parks uses a projector so students can eat at...
Spacing Words: Kindergarten Small Group
Tammy Mulligan uses another kindergartner's writing as a mentor text for teaching young children how to use spaces in their writing in this demonstration small group.
Coaching Minute: Advice for New Coaches
In this quick video, Cathy Mere shares some advice for new coaches.
Student Greeting
Students in the first-grade classroom of Bitsy Parks lead a morning greeting at the start of the day. It's a quick activity to check attendance, build reading skills, and help...
Voices Mantra
The 23 Voices Strong mantra is based on the mantra from Dr. Alfred Tatum's ID: Voice, Vision, Identity program. My students revised the original to include some parts that spoke...
Coaching Minute: Collaboration
In this brief video, Cathy Mere talks with literacy coach Kelly Hoenie about collaboration with reading specialists.
Read-Aloud Annotations: Google Slides
In this video series, Franki Sibberson's fifth graders share their strategies for annotating the class read aloud, The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Students have their choice of using notebooks...
Read-Aloud Annotations: Google Docs for Questions
In this video series, Franki Sibberson's fifth graders share their strategies for annotating the class read-aloud, The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Students have their choice of using notebooks or...
Read-Aloud Annotations: Expectation and Reality
In this video series, Franki Sibberson's fifth graders share their strategies for annotating the class read-aloud, The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Students have their choice of using notebooks or...
Read Aloud Annotations: Using Google Slides to Focus
In this video series, Franki Sibberson's fifth graders share their strategies for annotating the class read-aloud The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Students have their choice of using notebooks or...
Read-Aloud Annotations: Thoughts to Themes
In this video series, Franki Sibberson's fifth graders share their strategies for annotating the class read-aloud, The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Students have their choice of using notebooks or...
Ending the Year by Looking Forward
In this short video, Cathy Mere asks literacy coach Kelly Hoenie to think about how she will use learning from the end of the school year to plan for next...
Read Aloud Annotations: Predictions
In this video series, Franki Sibberson's fifth graders share their strategies for annotating the class read aloud, The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Students have their choice of using notebooks...
Read Aloud Annotations: Characters and Intentions
In this video series, Franki Sibberson's fifth graders share their strategies for annotating the class read aloud The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Students have their choice of using notebooks...
Read-Aloud Annotations: Notebook Predictions
In this video series, Franki Sibberson's fifth graders share their strategies for annotating the class read-aloud, The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Students have their choice of using notebooks or...
A Peek at a Coaching Notebook
Literacy coach Kelly Hoenie opens up her coaching notebook and shares with Cathy Mere what she writes down during observations and consultations, as well as how she uses the information...
Student-Led Minilession: Planning and Organizing Nonfiction Writing
Katie leads a minilesson in Franki Sibberson's fifth-grade class on organizing and planning nonfiction writing.
Digital and Disney: Conferring with Ben
It would be easy to zip quickly through a writing conference about a vacation story, especially one about a trip to Disney. Franki Sibberson doesn't do that. She slows down...
Coaching Minute: Principals and Questions
Jen Schwanke explains why one of the most crucial tasks for a principal is to slow down and ask good questions.
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.
Coaching Minute: Fostering Team Collaboration
Jen Schwanke talks through the tricky work of making sure literacy specialists, coaches, and classroom teachers have the time and structure they need to collaborate well around students and data.
