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How to Foster CHOICE and MOTIVATION During Independent Reading

Structures need to be set so that students can be successful in their work. Students need the teacher’s guiding hand in their reading work

How to Use Student Notebooks for Ongoing Informal Assessment

Student notebooks are a functional & valuable part of the classroom because they are an evolving snapshot of your students' work & progress

8 Activities You NEED to Ease Back Into the School Day Routine

The new year marks new beginnings and fresh starts. It’s time to capitalize on that theme to ease everyone back into the school day routine.

Essential Tools for Your Conferring Toolkit

Conferring is the single most important part of the instructional day filled with individualized student instruction and differentiation

4 Things Every Reader Needs for Independent Reading

When students are comfortable and prepared for their own independent reading, they will grow as readers and their interests will expand.

How to Build Literacy Portfolios That You and Your Learners Will ACTUALLY Use to Track Growth

You want to assess their progress and track their growth. You probably already have the 'data'. You just have to find and assemble

How to Guide Readers & Writers to Set Reasonable Goals

Assessing reading progress and tracking growth means getting to know your readers AND readers seeing themselves as readers in their own work

Launch a Writers' Workshop That INSPIRES Student Writers

Just as we build a community of readers in reading we must do the same in Writing. We have to share the kind of writer we are so students w

Planning With Intention to Build Strong Readers

When you think about what your readers need and what your readers have already accomplished, you can begin to build a path that will lead...

How to Guide Learners Through the INQUIRY PROCESS

Readers need guidance in finding answers for their many wonderings. Readers need nonfiction reading and research skills.

9 Key Teaching Points for Navigating Nonfiction Text

Readers are naturally filled with questions about topics they are interested in and are led to read nonfiction texts to find answers

4 Easy Steps to IGNITE (or REignite) a Culture of Reading in Your Classroom

Readers change and evolve! Every reader has a unique reading identity that evolves over time with their reading interests, reading habits a

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