Building Better Readers: Resources For Practicing Fluency
So now you have the WHY you need to teach fluency, and the STRATEGIES for teaching fluency, but how about some TOOLS for practicing fluency? Let's talk about some FREE resources and tools for teaching [...]
10 Must Follow Primary Teachers on Facebook
I recently read a blog post by Emily at Education to the Core. She highlighted 15 amazing teachers to follow on Facebook! I thought it was a fantastic idea! Most of the pages she highlighted [...]
Building Better Readers: Teaching Strategies for Fluency
Yesterday we talked about what fluency is and what it is not and the WHY we should be teaching it explicitly. Today we are going to dive into the meat and potatoes: the actual strategies [...]
Building Better Readers: Revisiting Fluency
I recently ran across an article from Education Week (May 2015) about fluency. I really thought it was fascinating. When I was working on my Master's in 2007, I did some formative research in my classroom [...]
Organizing Materials for Word Work
I wanted to pop in really fast and share a very simple way to organize and implement word work. We had to use a specific program for spelling in my district. We used these words [...]
4 Tips to Make RTI Easier!
It is about that time of year...you know, where the paper work starts cranking and you start seeing which kids might need a little extra boost. Which means that RTI is about to crank up [...]
Classroom Management: A Linky!
I am thrilled to be linking up with Sarah over at More than a Worksheet! She set up a monthly linky party with easy (and slightly bridal! LOL) guidelines : something old, something new, something [...]
Sneak a Peek!
I am so excited to be kicking off the event on the collaborative blog, The Primary Peach! On today's post, I shared over 10 years (eek! I am old!) of photographs of my classroom libraries. [...]
Beginning Narrative Writing
I just wrote a few days ago about exploring genres before starting writing any specific type of writing. Usually, we first dive into narrative writing. I like to start with personal narratives because kids already [...]