How to Build a Campus-Wide Culture of Reading in 6 Easy Steps
Get everyone onboard for exploring their reading life and creating a display for all to see.
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Shared Reading: Cocreating Meaning with Our Students
Shared Reading is a weekly structure that fits within the Balanced Literacy Model. I recently had a conversation with another teacher...
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4 Reasons Why Shared Reading Should Happen In ALL Grade Levels EVERYDAY
When Shared Reading experiences are a daily part of the literacy block, students are provided more opportunities to have a literature discus
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How to Make Plot Structure VISIBLE for Your Readers
Using a graphic organizer in the form of a story mountain helps to illustrate the building of tension to the big moment (climax) of a narrat
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8 Key Points for Teaching Readers How to Monitor Comprehension
All readers need to understand the processes occurring in their brains as they read text. Monitoring comprehension is difficult for young
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Twelve Ways Teachers Can Build Lifelong Endurance and Enthusiasm for Reading
Check out these twelve ways to help build your young readers' reading lives and develop their endurance and enthusiasm for reading.
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4 Easy Steps to Plan Read Alouds That Will Frontload Your Instruction
With intentional book choices and thoughtful planning, Read Aloud can frontload the skills and strategies your readers will need
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Browse Connect Question: A Quick Prereading Strategy Minilesson To Actively Engage Your Readers
BCQ--Browse Connect and Question
Students will hastily begin reading a book without getting to know it first. I wanted my students to get t
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3 Easy Steps For Teacher Self-Care
Over the years, I witnessed the amount of appreciation drop drastically and the workload of a teacher increase dramatically!
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Reflective Thinking IS A Self Care Strategy
Teachers are showing the world that they can take very little time and limited resources to create learning experiences for their students.
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Interactive HOME Learning Experience Menu for Parents & Students
What crazy times we are in! Mandatory school closures for 2 weeks or more! Are you scrambling to meet your school district’s demand for...
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Tackle Written Reading Responses Like a PRO
When readers write about their reading in analytical response, they leave a gold mine of information. Readers leave their reading thinking
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