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Teach Like a Pirate: Ask and Analyze
Welcome to Teach Like a Pirate. A book study on the book by Dave Burgess. This section, Ask and Analyze Questions, is all about how to use questioning to steer yourself as you plan and to engage...
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Small Group Reading: Starting out the Year
I alluded in previous posts to an explanation and mini-series of posts on how I organize and execute the small group reading time in my classroom. This will be the first post of a few to explain what...
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Notice and Note Book Study Post 7
The sections of the book for part 7 today are pretty short and to the point. The first section introduces the questions that accompany the signposts. As I read, I wondered how having just one...
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Small Group Reading: Activities and Structure
Here's post 2 in my mini-series on the activities during small group reading time. My last post briefly described how I get my students started and slowly introduce one activity at a time. This one...
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Notice and Note Book Study Post 8
Section 6 is so helpful in teaching how to explain the signposts to your class. It also gives some text suggestions and some models for teaching the signposts to your students. I'm so excited about...
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Reading in the Wild Summer Book Study Chapter 1
I'm also linking up with the Reading in the Wild by Donalyn Miller book study today. Since this is the first time I'm linking up, I'm going to share my thoughts and reflections on all of chapter 1....
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Small Group Reading: Genre Activities
My friend and colleague introduced me to this concept. I believe she learned about it in a BER presentation. I love this idea because I feel like it gives my students exposure to more texts than I...
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Saunders School Supplies
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Teach Like a Pirate: What's in it For Me?
This section of Teach Like a Pirate is all about answer the age old student question... "What's in it for me?" Dave Burgess offers 5 hook types to help answer this question for your students. Here are...
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Crazy About Basketball - Book Review
I'm so excited to start bringing you book reviews! I LOVE books, especially children and young adult books. I don't read many adult fiction books. Most of the "adult" books I read are education...
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Small Group Reading: Listening
The next activity I'm sharing with you in my mini-series about small group reading time is listening.My school has invested in a a few sets of listening book sets that contain an audio cd of the book...
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Notice and Note Post 10: Contrasts and Contradictions
Heather at 2 Brainy Apples did a great job of sharing the ideas from Notice and Note: Contrasts and Contradictions and Aha Moment. I wanted to share with you my reading notebook entry that I planned...
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Guided Math Conferences Chapter 1
This really is a summer of professional reading for me, and I'm loving it! I'm excited to join Brenda for this study of Guided Math Conferences by Laney Sammons. Don't have a copy? Click on the link...
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Monday Made It: Listening Station Pocket
I recently posted about my listening center here. Here's how I made the pockets for my MP3 players. It was super simple and I have my 10 year old daughter who was helping me in my classroom to thank...
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Small Group Reading: Fluency
For the fluency activity, students re-read the basal selection from our Journey's text from the previous week. Often we read the selection twice during the week we are focused on a story, so this is...
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Notice ant Note Post 11
First, I need to finish Post 10. Here are the pictures of my response notebook for Aha MomentTwo page spreadLeft side closeRight side under the text glue-inThen I thought I needed lessons on Theme and...
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Notice and Note Post 12
Here are my notebook pages for Again and Again and Memory Moment. I mentioned in Post 11 that I didn't write down as much of my own reflection with these last ones, hoping that students will do more...
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Reading in the Wild Summer Book Study Chapter 2
I am loving this book by Donalyn Miller. The more I read, the more I love it. Chapter 2 is focused on getting students to select reading material. One of the main focuses of this chapter is on...
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Small Group Reading: Guided Reading Group
When we begin small group time, they gather their response notebooks and a pencil and meet me at my reading table. I conduct a traditional guided reading lesson with this group. I usually use...
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Small Group Reading: Deeper Reading
Deeper reading is based on a guided reading lesson, with the objective to get students deeper into texts. This is where I do my guided close reading. I take a text we have worked with before either...
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