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Category: Read Alouds

Reasons for Author Studies

Reasons to Read Aloud EVERYDAY!

Love Monster Week

3 Tips for Helping your Students Connect with Authors

Writer’s Workshop. Love it? Leave it? I just ha

Writer’s Workshop. Love it? Leave it?
I just had a conversation with my co-workers this week about how hard writer’s workshop is.
How do you meet with every kid?
How do you pick just one thing to work on?
I don’t have all the answers but what I do know is that writer’s workshop is an opportunity to help our students FALL IN LOVE WITH WRITING!! This week we broke out the “magic microphone” to share our stories and my kids LOVED it!
What’s your best writing tip?

Are you overwhelmed with lesson planning?? Break i

Are you overwhelmed with lesson planning?? Break it into steps!! ⁣
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One of my favorite things I teach in my new membership is the four key steps to standards based planning.⁣
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1) Identify your essential standard. ⁣
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2) Identify common assessment.⁣
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3) Plan whole group. ⁣
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4) Repurpose whole group activities into EVERYTHING else (stations, guided reading, etc.). ⁣
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Want to know more?? Check out the link in bio now!!

One of my FAVORITE things about teaching... honest

One of my FAVORITE things about teaching... honestly one of the best parts... is building relationships and watching these kids grow. ⁣
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Through teaching I've formed so many relationships with my students and their families that I will never forget. ⁣
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Especially now that some of my students have siblings the same age as my own kids. ⁣
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Teaching really is blessing. ⁣
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So when you're having a hard morning, a rough afternoon or a REALLY long week... Just remember why you started in the first place! 😘

You are devoted to your classroom. You will try an

You are devoted to your classroom. You will try anything and everything to help your students reach mastery of your grade level skills. ⁣
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You pour your heart out into your job and your students. But, you are also….. spending too much time deciphering new teaching strategies (hello Balanced Literacy) when you should be spending time with your families. ⁣
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I get you. I'm here to help!Save yourself time and headaches with this simple framework to a successful literacy classroom. ⁣
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I will guide you from start to finish on how to make the most of your time and make your classroom super focused around student mastery of literacy standards.⁣
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I'm not going to go into too much detail here, download your free guide to the four secrets of a successful balanced literacy classroom that NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT!⁣
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Y'all... these circles have been SANITY SAVERS!! N

Y'all... these circles have been SANITY SAVERS!! Not only do they double as dry erase areas, but they give my students a defined area while at the guided reading table!! ⁣
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Not to mention how pretty the look! 😍⁣
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What are your best sanity savers for your teacher table?

One of the biggest reasons students interrupt my g

One of the biggest reasons students interrupt my guided reading group is because they need help with something.⁣
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I like to remind my students that the reason they are completing stations independently is to allow me to work with a small group of students. ⁣
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So, I need them to be able to try and solve their problems own their own first.⁣
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What are you best tips for making students problem solvers during guided reading stations?

Simply put, we are constantly battling for our stu

Simply put, we are constantly battling for our students’ attention and focus. ⁣
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You could have an amazing resource that is aligned to your standards and meets the needs of all students…BUT, if it’s not engaging, it won’t be successful. ⁣
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You have to start thinking out of the box. ⁣
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You need to ask yourself...⁣
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How can you give your students “hands on” activities during your literacy instruction?

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