I posted an image on Instagram recently and got a huge response that I wasn’t expecting. We’re all having…
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My Literacy Block
I receive a lot of questions about how I run my literacy block. At my school, our schedule is blocked…
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Writing Conferences
I’m really trying to be better about holding writing conferences this year. These simple questions have completely changed the quality…
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Diversify Your Classroom Library
I was very lucky to get a Donors Choose project funded recently. I titled my project “Diverse Books for Diverse…
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Spelling Bins for Word Work
As you may know, I was “promoted” to third grade this year. Because of that, I’m not using Words Their…
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3rd Grade Read Alouds
I was moved to third grade this year, so I needed a fresh batch of read alouds. After all, I…
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Publishing Mini Books in the Classroom
So you raided the Target Dollar Spot and stocked up on some blank mini books for your classroom. Now what?…
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Point of View Song and Resources
I dropped a new beat recently in the form of a point of view song… My sweet students REQUESTED…
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Punctuation Paragraphs
At the start of the year, I had a lot of students that struggled with putting ending punctuation in the…
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Classroom Book Tasting
I was inspired by Hope, Mary, and many others to finally host a classroom BOOK TASTING! On Friday afternoons,…
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2nd Grade Grammar Puzzles (plus a free sample!)
INTRODUCING…. I wanted to share these puzzles with you because I use them in my classroom DAILY and my students…
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How to Create Your Own Listening Center
Yesterday I posted an Instagram story about how I recorded myself reading one of our social studies readers to turn…
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