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The Science of Reading Explained in Memes
All of us are going to spend the rest of our professional lives learning about how to better align our teaching with the practices that research shows are most effective. Let me offer you a starting point. A snowflake on the tip of the iceberg. I consider the Reading Wars to have ended with the… Read more
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5 Ways to Improve Any Reading Curriculum
You’ve seen those hacks about how to improve a boxed cake mix so it tastes like it’s homemade. You know, add milk instead of water, swap the oil for butter. Boxed cake mixes are fine, but they aren’t great. Boxed reading programs are fine, but they aren’t great. You are capable of greatness. Use these… Read more
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Writing Introductory Paragraphs
For opinion/argument and informative/explanatory essays Are you using AI in your classroom yet? You should be. To create these resources I took prompts from CommonLit and popped them into ChatGPT. I instantly got results, which is great for me, and something to keep in mind when you are assigning writing to your students. Introducing Introductions… Read more
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Choosing the Best Evidence
For Reading Informational Standard 8, Essay Writing, and Part B Questions Are your students struggling with choosing the best evidence to support their points or answers? It may be because we are teaching it backwards. You know how when we write a paragraph the topic sentence goes first and then we state the evidence that… Read more
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If Taylor Swift’s Hits were a Book List
Reading any of these books? Now you have an excuse to listen to Taylor Swift with your class! Who’s excited to see Taylor Swift’s movie that comes out this Friday?? As I was listening to her set list to prepare myself, books with similar themes kept coming to mind. It would be so fun to… Read more
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Summary Bar Graph
My favorite strategy to teach summarization! You know how the standards are a numbered list? Besides being helpful for citing, the standards are ordered intentionally. You can’t do any of the other standards until the students understand what the text is saying (Reading Standard 1). Summary bar graph from a small group when I taught… Read more
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