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Do 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 TeachingTeaching students how to locate cause and effect in the text can help them learn how to analyze relationships between people, events, and ideas. To begin, introduce cause and effect to students usi...
Continue reading: Teaching Tip: Cause and Effect in the ClassroomBeginning readers need to learn to check one kind of information with another; this is called cross-checking. Students might check meaning (via the picture) with visual information (via the first l...
Continue reading: Teaching Tip: Learning to Cross-Checkbookbuilder new at pioneer valley books
[This post is a guest post from our Marketing Coordinator, Rachel. Rachel handles lots of the marketing and social media business for Pioneer Valley Books. Today she’s sharing some awesome updates ...
Continue reading: Need More Books?fan mail new at pioneer valley books
We love getting fan mail from young readers here at Pioneer Valley Books! Students write letters to all our characters, but Bella and Rosie are definitely fan favorites around here! I especially lo...
Continue reading: Fan Mail of the Month: Thanks, Eliza!