Easy Ways to Refresh Your Classroom Library
Refresh your classroom library to get kids excited to read after the long break!
What’s Wrong with “Sounding it Out?”
I recently had a conversation with several primary grade teachers about decoding words. We were were talking about how to prompt kids to decode words from beginning to end. These…
What SOR Advocates Tell Us Good Readers Do That’s Completely Wrong
I’m a balanced literacy teacher. I have been for my entire 20+ years in the field. But I’m also a constant learner, so I’ve been sitting up to listen to…
One [Paper] Stone, Many Birds
Are you feeling more and more like you’re drowning as the school year is progressing? And if this isn’t your first year, are you feeling like each year is getting…
Anatomy of a [Reading or Writing] Conference
Conducting reading and writing conferences with your students is really the heart of any workshop classroom. They are very quick, but so powerful, for several reasons: But HOW do you…