structure u Watch it on Youtube! Wondering what guided reading looks like...let me show you step by step "They" tell us that we need to be doing guided reading. Easier said than done. This is especially true in Junior grades where most of our students now know how to read and we are focusing on ... READ the POST
Ep 124: Keeping it Positive: How to maintain a positive classroom culture in difficult times
Watch it on YouTube! Sometimes education can be turbulent. There are periods in every educator's journey where chaos and disruption threaten to derail even your best-laid plans. The positive classroom community that you worked so hard to establish can easily unravel during these times making it ... READ the POST
Assessment and The Triangulation of Data
What is the triangulation of data...and how the heck do you do master this assessment in the classroom on top of all of the other things you need to do. What Is It? The triangulation of data creates a three-prong approach to assessment. This means that all of your assessment does not need to be ... READ the POST
Planning for Small Group Instruction
.What are the instances in a day where you might need to use small group instruction? For me, there are two different key areas where I will have small group instruction. The first is with language and small group instruction with both reading and writing groups. The other area that is a ... READ the POST
Small Group Instruction: How to Group Students
As teachers, we spend so much time establishing rules and routines in our classroom. We practice and rehearse how to complete work and move around our classroom. At some point, it is time to move on and begin our guided instruction. Guided instruction is an effective tool to provide concentrated ... READ the POST
Why More Students Should Learn How to Fail
Failure... Too many students are afraid to fail, and this often prevents them from even trying in the first place. They don't know how to do it and don't know how to manage the frustrations that come along with failing. Perseverance and self-reflection is a skill that many of my students ... READ the POST
The Gradual Release of Responsibility to Teach Reading
What does teaching reading look like in your classroom? There are four components that help me as a teacher to structure reading instruction in my classroom. Modelled Reading Shared Reading Guided Reading Independent Reading These four components are woven into my weekly ... READ the POST
How I Teach Writing
I used to teach writing like everyone else. I would pick a writing form break it down into steps focus on the process of how to write within a form repeat this for a few weeks have students write within that form evaluate their work to see if they could write in the ... READ the POST
Be More Efficient In The Classroom: 6 Simple Hacks You Can Try Today
One of the things that drives me crazy is when things run inefficiently. So I always try to find more ways to be more efficient in my classroom. As a busy mom of three, a teacher and business owner time saving efficient hacks are my most needed thing these days. So there are things that I do ... READ the POST
Work Life Balance…the busy teacher edition
Let me start this blog post with some real truth... You can't do all the things I don't do all the things! There is not enough hours in the day or coffee in the world that will allow you to do all the things. Yet over and over I am told and asked "I don't know how you do it...where do you ... READ the POST
Making Writing Assessment Work to Help Students Bump It Up!
How do we make assessment meaningful in a way that helps students to see what the criteria is they are being evaluated on How do we involve them in this process to decide on the evaluation of what makes a piece of writing good? One way that I have used over the years is a Bump It Up ... READ the POST
Using Inquiry to Teach Science
When teaching science, have you heard about the catchy 5E system for teaching science? It is popular in the states and can easily be applied in some ways for Inquiry in science. I wanted to borrow from the 5Es and push some of these stages a little further and integrate it with what we know about ... READ the POST
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