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Oral Reading Fluency
Lessons learned from Bath and Body Works and Jan Hasbrouck Like every basic white girl, I enjoy a good sale at Bath and Body Works. So when I stumbled across one in early December I loaded up on happies for myself, friends, and my daughter’s teachers. I bought this new lotion to try. It’s in… Read more
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Revising
Use these sample essays to help students revise their opinion/argument and informative/explanatory writing. Revising may be the most important part of the writing process for real authors. Revising makes changes to the ideas and structure of the writing: adding, changing, deleting, clarifying, reordering. Editing ensures the capitalization, spelling, and punctuation are correct. These are all… Read more
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Let’s make school easier and more fun.
Last night, as I was trying to massage the dirt flavor out of kale, I had an epiphany: we need to make schools easier and more fun. Now before you blow a gasket, I mean easier and more fun for teachers. The fact that your first inclination was to yell, “What about RIGOR??” when you saw… Read more
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Better than Silent Sustained Reading
I am not affiliated with any of the links, sources, or authors mentioned in this post. Silent sustained reading (SSR) has long been a time-honored tradition in schools. We know we want students to read a lot, and the more they are able to read the better they’ll get at it, but simply giving students… Read more
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Which reading strategies are most effective?
There are links on this post but I am not affiliated with them. All views are my own. Is it just me or is there lot of confusion out there about reading instruction? Balanced literacy? Science of reading? Structured literacy? Who’s on each side and what do they have to say? Are we harming kids… Read more
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Writing Body Paragraphs
For opinion/argument and informative/explanatory essays Body paragraphs are the meat of the paper, where students answer the prompt and support their ideas with evidence and commentary. There are a lot of acronyms to help students remember what to do in body paragraphs (MEAT, OREO, T-BEAR, etc.) and I think whatever works for you in your… Read more
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