This is the time of year when my district begins sending out emails concerning teacher summer school positions and school transfer opportunities. Whether you’re a novice or veteran teacher, it is always a great idea to prepare for an upcoming interview.
This year I updated some of the activities in my writing center and I am pretty excited about the changes! I have most of my writing centers in a pocket chart. These activities are not always assigned. Sometimes I have something completely different that I need them to work on in the writing center, sometimes these are used as early finished, and other times…
We made our video to align with a recent blog series we created, Reader Ready. In addition to sharing lesson ideas and resources on our blog, we now have the video as an additional tool for teaching the ELA standard. We are continuing to create videos for the remaining standards we covered in our blog series…
Since I teach a lot of EL students and struggling writers, I use crayons as a part of my instruction, and I teach my students how to color code their essay. Purchasing all of these crayons would be quite costly, so I am thrilled that I was able to get them all for free. You can also score tons and tons of crayons for free!
I do small group reading each day. I also do individual reading conferences with each kid every week. That is a lot to get prepared for and planned out! My life saver when it comes to these reading groups is my “Reading Tool Box”…