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I took a month off from my BODYPUMP class this summer. When I got back, I found myself struggling with the weight I was used to lifting prior to my hiatus. I had to use smaller weights. And boy was...
Continue reading: Warm Up the Reading MusclesSpelling is an integral part of word study. During word study, students will learn to spell words that will be useful to them in reading and writing text. If you feel you need a spelling program th...
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Some children learn to read almost effortlessly, and others seem to struggle endlessly. I recently started working with a little guy in first grade named Cayden. Halfway through the year, he had pr...
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With the beginning of the school year in mind, I’m sharing my tips for getting Guided Reading lessons going early. Check out the video below! Happy Teaching! -Michèle
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I, like many educators, cannot believe how quickly summer passes! Nevertheless, back-to-school time is here, and many teachers are putting the final touches on their classrooms for this year. I tho...
Continue reading: Teaching Tip: Organizing Your Classroom Library for Young ReadersJan Richardson and I are putting the final touches on our interactive session at ILA 2018 (link no longer available)—What to Do When Kids Just Don’t Get it: Prompting for Deeper Understanding durin...
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Earlier this week, I talked on Zoom with my collaborator, Jan Richardson and showed off the new books and tools from our Literacy Footprints Fourth Grade Kit. This kit has been a blast to work on t...
Continue reading: Unboxing the Literacy Footprints Fourth Grade Kit with Co-author, Jan RichardsonWe don’t need tons of research to tell us that some of our students lose ground over the summer because they aren’t reading. We see it in classrooms at the start of each new school year. Students f...
Continue reading: Summer Reading — It Matters!In my latest video blog (link no longer available), I’m diving deeper into the Word Study part of a guided reading lesson and sharing some tips about using Making Words. I’ve also created this help...
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Created by teachers for teachers, Literacy Footprints is a complete guided reading system cocreated by myself and fellow literacy expert, Jan Richardson. Hear directly from Jan and I as we detail t...
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