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Independent Reading Conferring with Students – Part 1

Conferring with students about their reading is one of my favorite parts of the day.  Over the years, my reading conferences have definitely evolved, but

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Using Flipgrid for Partner Reading Response Activities

Sometimes, it’s easy to get in a bit of a rut with student responses to reading.  I do see lots of value in Post-it notes

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Increasing Student Engagement by Using Randomizers

I always love it when I can find a way to add a little more fun into my classroom.  I like it even better if

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Teaching Students to Compose Strong Narrative Leads

We recently finished our writing unit on personal narratives.  As with all of my units, I like to take a little time to reflect on

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Three Great Picture Books for the Beginning of the School Year

The start of a new school year is just around the corner.  As I started looking through my plans for the first couple of weeks,

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Math Conferences when Students are Stuck

It seems like feelings toward challenging math problems tend to lean toward extremes.  Students either really enjoy them or they really don’t.  Many of my

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Maximizing Math Conferences

I hope everyone is having a great summer!  If you’re like me, thoughts are starting to swirl around in your head for the next school

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A Pinterest Inspired Gratitude Activity

Happy summer everyone!  (Or maybe almost summer to some)  We finished at the end of May, and I have been using my time to catch

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2017-18 School Year Reflection – Successes

Wow!  I can’t believe another school year has already come to an end.  Our last day was Thursday, and I feel like I have been

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The second shift focuses on easy ways to integrate The second shift focuses on easy ways to integrate phonemic awareness into your whole group or small group lessons. Even if you don’t have a structured phonics program, you can integrate strategies such as phoneme segmentation and phoneme deletion.  There are great suggestions and words lists to help. One of my favorite parts of this chapter is a chart that provides a hierarchy of skills that lead to phonemic awareness proficiency. (Swipe to see the chart.). I love this for individuals and small groups of students who may need a little extra work. 

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I am not always the best at expressing gratitude, I am not always the best at expressing gratitude, but today is one of the days that I am very intentional about doing so.  We have our freedoms due to the great sacrifices of others. I am unbelievably grateful to be living in the United States of America.
The kids aren’t the only ones having fun on the The kids aren’t the only ones having fun on the last day of school. 

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Are you looking for some great strategies and acti Are you looking for some great strategies and activities for teaching main idea?  Check out my latest blog post. It includes a download with four free activities. You can find the link in my profile. 

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National Geographic Kids are wonderful for teachin National Geographic Kids are wonderful for teaching just about any nonfiction skills. One of my favorite features is the headings. They are great for predicting the main idea without giving it directly. 

The headings are also great for inspiring students to jazz up their own nonfiction writing headings. Scroll to see how students became inspired with their research headings. 
 
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Any time you can make a connection to ice cream, t Any time you can make a connection to ice cream, the strategy becomes more engaging!  The students and I worked together to discuss main idea and write supporting details (“cool facts”) in our own words. 

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