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Fourth grade teachers

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Teaching Tip: Organizing Your Classroom Library for Young Readers

August 13, 2018 literacy footprints teaching tips videos

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...

Unboxing the Literacy Footprints Fourth Grade Kit with Co-author, Jan Richardson

June 14, 2018 literacy footprints new at pioneer valley books videos

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...

Hi, my name is Michèle Dufresne. Welcome to my teaching blog! I am passionate about helping children learn to read. I am an author, educational consultant, literacy specialist, and former Reading Recovery Teacher Leader. I have cowrittten with Jan Richarson the best-selling book The Next Step Forward in Word Study and Phonics and the Literacy Footprints Guided Reading System and have authored over 800 titles for young readers, including the ever-popular Bella and Rosie stories and many of the titles in the Explore the World nonfiction series.