Be a Guided Reading Expert! Are you wanting to master guided reading, but feel a wee bit overwhelmed? Guided Reading is just one more thing you have on your plate. or do you? Are you currently conducting guided reading lessons in your classroom? I am sometimes surprised to hear that some emergent classrooms do not. The text that is selected is above.

Monday, November 13, 2017. It also leads to a great informational writing prompt. Towards the end of our Thanksgiving Unit. We learn about Squanto and how he helped the Pilgrims learn to plant crops by planting fish with the seeds. Oreos inside to make dirt.

at Last! Tuesday, January 9, 2018. Snow Kids, Guided Writing, and a Few Lessons Learned. flashback to a few weeks ago, when we woke up to a blanket of thick snow, and the flakes were still coming down hard. Hands down, one of the most amazing snow days I have experienced here! Check this out.

What If You Had Animal Teeth? We sure love the What If You Had Animal Parts book series! Swing by to see how we turned this book series into a 4 week, close read! We dig in deep so students can learn, but have fun along the way! Sub Plans Made Easy with a FREEBIE and a SCHOLASTIC GIVEAWAY! Traci Clausen with Engaging Teaching here. sharing about that fabulous topic. making sub plans! Stop by my latest post. And grab a copy of my sub plan template and a FREE editable version that you can edit for yourself! .

Tuesday, March 6, 2018. Students ENJOY participating in the activity each time. We BELIEVE our students have become really GOOD at sounding out words because of this ENGAGING activity. Lakeshore does not carry this item anymore! We had a FANTASTIC idea. For our students to create their own. LOOK AT ALL THE FUN LEARNING GOING ON! To go to their TpT shop. Or a classroom flip? .

Friday, July 24, 2015. For some of my favorites.

Thursday, December 15, 2016. Last Thursday and Friday, we were honored to be able to go to the Ron Clark Academy! I know that you have heard people post about their trips to RCA, but I can tell you that nothing beats actually going there. I left every afternoon exhausted! My brain was in overdrive! I want to share a few things that I took away from this trip. 2 The importance of building a community.