When I taught kindergarten years ago my favorite time of the day was writing workshop. I loved modeling a simple lesson, sending students out to write on their own while I moved around the room conferring with as many young writers as time allowed before we closed our notebooks for the day. They were enthusiastic …
I wrote here a few weeks ago about a poetry unit I was able to co-facilitate with a first year teacher. In that blog post I talked about how we approached teaching Mrs. B’s 3rd grade students to read and comprehend poetry. Only a few short weeks have passed, but I can not stop thinking …
I am so excited to introduce That Thing You Do! This new weekly segment will share tips from teachers who make the learning memorable for their students. Huge shout-out to Katherine Sokolowski who teaches 7th grade in central Illinois for guest blogging on the very first ever That Thing You Do segment. Katherine blogs …
