End of the Year Reflections
…leave easy access to my whiteboard. And I’ll leave my writing center where it is because it gave my students a quiet place to write. And I loved having an…
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“What Do You Do With a Problem?” Problem Solving Activities
“What Do You Do With a Problem?” by Kobi Yamada is a story that is sure to leave an impact on your students. Many times kids can feel overwhelmed by…
Teaching Informative Writing
…it home. Leave a page for families to leave comments too. There are so many ways to celebrate students’ hard work! They will love sharing all that they learned and…
How To Make Writing Conferences Meaningful
…of writing, revising and editing, and that they’d leave our conference with a picture-perfect piece of writing, filled with my pen markings that they would go and fix on their…
I Am Love: Favorite Activities to Promote Compassion
…a symbol for emotional turmoil of hurt, unfairness, sadness, or anger. These feelings can leave us feeling dark and alone in the storm, but when we see someone going through…
5 Tips for Teaching Students How To Revise and Edit Writing
…and edit, but do not think you have to revise and edit the entire piece of writing together. It does not have to be perfect when students leave the conference….
How to Group Students for a Successful Reading Workshop
…Give the student an action item when they leave. Set a reading goal that they can work on to continue to grow. (I do not think this should be a…
Close Reading Strategies: How to Help Students Take a Closer …
…an unknown word, or just something you’d like to come back to, leave a sticky note as a reminder to go back. Stop and think aloud about the text structure. …
How to Teach Students to Make Meaningful Predictions
…and understand the story. And, the best part…students actually LIKE making predictions! When you stop at just the right part of a story or leave kids hanging with a cliffhanger,…