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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...
Continue reading: Teaching Tip Video and Handout: Top Tips for Teaching Making Words During Word StudyThis month, I’m sharing tips via video! How can you get students to use one-to-one matching? Check out the video below for concrete advice about helping readers at levels A, B, C, and beyond. I als...
Continue reading: Video Teaching Tip: Improving Reading Through One-to-One MatchingDo you have students in your classroom who are not easily discouraged and pick themselves up and try again even when something is hard? It’s great working with these students. But what about the ot...
Continue reading: Teaching Tip: Guided Reading with Deliberate Practicebookbuilder new at pioneer valley books
Students love seeing their own names in print, and that’s one reason that I love creating stories for BookBuilder Online. It’s simple to add names, print out the book, and assemble the story for cl...
Continue reading: New Springtime BookBuilder StoriesLearning to compare and contrast different ideas deepens students’ understanding of what they read. How should you begin? Have students think of a question that compares and contrasts concepts, cha...
Continue reading: Analyzing Relationships: Learning to Compare and ContrastOne of the most important things for an emergent reader to learn is to check that what they read makes sense, looks right, and sounds right. This is called self-monitoring. Often the teacher does t...
Continue reading: Early Emergent Readers: Learning to Self-Monitorliteracy footprints teaching tips
In my last post, I shared a video of educator, Amy Ferris, sharing about the data-driven teaching methods she is implementing at her kindergarten-only school in Richmond, Kentucky. My next data sto...
Continue reading: Teaching Tip: Collecting and Using Data to Inform Teaching, Part Two!Many years ago, I was sitting in the Columbus, Ohio, airport after presenting at the National Reading Recovery conference. I eavesdropped on a conversation across the aisle, and that’s how I met Ma...
Continue reading: Teaching Tip: Collecting and Using Data to Inform Teaching