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by Amy Bowlin When we talk about guided reading, we don’t often think about writing being an important part of the lesson—but it is! Embedded in every Literacy Footprints lesson is an opportunity f...
Continue reading: Teaching Tip: Guided Writing: A Critical Part of Guided ReadingGuided writing is a powerful part of the guided reading lesson. Evidence shows that high-quality writing instruction can improve students’ reading comprehension, reading fluency, and word-solving s...
Continue reading: Teaching Tip: Guided Writing: Learning about the Main Idea and Key DetailsPhonics has been in the news a lot lately. It’s very important that we teach phonics. I don’t think any teacher disputes this! But phonics is not a goal in and of itself. We teach students phonics—...
Continue reading: Teaching Tip: Learning to Apply What You Have Learnednew at pioneer valley books teaching tips
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...
Continue reading: Video: What is Literacy Footprints?Sound boxes can be powerful tools for helping students learn how to hear and record sounds in words. Using them can lead to greater independence in writing and improve students’ ability to use phon...
Continue reading: Video Teaching Tip: Using Sound Boxes During Guided Writing
