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Get to Know Students, and Teach Foundational Writing Skills, with Informational Writing
Starting with a quick informational piece can help us get to know our students–what they like to do, where they go, what they’re passionate about and can teach–all while teaching conventions and syntax.
For this idea, we’re going to use some lessons from our book
Informational Writing Lessons: Your Go-To Guide for Flexible, High-Impact Instruction.
The intention is to focus on teaching sentence and paragraph structure within the genre of informational text as well as to get to know your students’ interests.
Taking a Centrist’s Perspective in the Current Reading Wars
Over the past few years, there seems to be a much-heated debate and quite the divide over how we should be teaching reading in the classroom. In fact, the conversations have become so polarizing that one feels as if we must wholeheartedly, “choose a side.”
Reimagining Literacy Instruction in a Virtual World
While the world adapts to new norms and behaviors for daily life, we as educators must rethink and adapt our approach to literacy instruction in the virtual “classroom.”
Five Practical Ways to Support Struggling Readers
This article explores five insights that we wish we had known sooner and strategies that would have proven useful in reaching many students over the years in the classroom.
#Writing About Reading
This article explores how writing about reading can tap into the social media worlds of students. It offers a fresh approach to exploring tools and techniques to engage students in deeper thinking and ways to convey ideas
Using Gradual Release of Responsibility to Support Authentic Reading
As classroom teachers, we sometimes approach our teaching in a compartmentalized way.
Who wouldn’t when it’s the daily schedule that seems to dictate and inform what we do rather than the students in front of us?