Everything ELA • 2 min Read Weaving the Threads of Common Topics and Themes As an educator, are you often searching for instructional strategies that will improve your students’ reading skills? Here is one… Read More 0
Everything ELA • 2 min Read Implementing Guided Instruction Teachers know the importance of guided instruction. As teachers and students work together during this learning process, students gain skills… Read More 0
Everything ELA • 3 min Read Digging In to the ELAR TEKS, Part 3: Asking Questions and Envisioning Instruction During the “Learning Year” Previous posts in this blog series discussed two steps to learning the strands, the knowledge and skills statements, and the… Read More 0
Everything ELA • 2 min Read Digging In to the ELAR TEKS, Part 2: Asking Questions and Envisioning Instruction During the “Learning Year” The 2018−2019 school year is known as the “learning year,” the time educators study the TEKS that will be implemented… Read More 0
Everything ELA • 2 min Read Digging In to the ELAR TEKS, Part 1: Asking Questions and Envisioning Instruction During the “Learning Year” The K−8 English Language Arts and Reading (ELAR) TEKS adopted in 2017 will be implemented in the 2019−2020 school year…. Read More 0
Everything ELA • 2 min Read Get in the Writing Game! To say that writing is a complex skill is an understatement! Because teachers are proficient writers, we may not consciously… Read More 0
Everything ELA • 2 min Read The Mission of Debriefing Historically used by astronauts, debriefing is a technique in which experiences are reviewed and shared at the conclusion of space… Read More 0
Everything ELA • 3 min Read 5 End-of-Year Activities to Capture Student Reflections on Learning It’s May. Students are restless, longing for long, lazy summer days. You are exhausted, yearning for a much-deserved respite as… Read More 0
Everything ELA • 7 min Read 15 Interventions for Close Reading Lessons This is the final article in a series exploring how to approach close reading. If you’d like, go back and… Read More 0
Everything ELA • 5 min Read Act III of Close Reading: What the Text Means In Act II of close reading, your students examined how the text works. Now it’s time to raise the curtain… Read More 0
Everything ELA • 5 min Read Diving In to Close Reading A literacy topic that has been gaining traction in many schools across the country is close reading. Why is close… Read More 0
Everything ELA • 5 min Read How to Find “Goldilocks” Texts for Close Reading Lessons This article is second in a series exploring how to approach close reading. If you’d like, go back and read… Read More 0
Everything ELA • 6 min Read How to Design Questions for Deep Understanding in Close Reading This article is third in a series exploring how to approach close reading. If you’d like, go back and read… Read More 0
Everything ELA • 4 min Read Act I of Close Reading: What the Text Says This article is fourth in a series exploring how to approach close reading. If you’d like, go back and read… Read More 0
Everything ELA • 5 min Read Act II of Close Reading: How the Text Works This article is fifth in a series exploring how to approach close reading. If you’d like, go back and read… Read More 0
Everything ELA • 3 min Read How Pancakes Flipped the Flavor of My Classroom Pancakes taste like home. Growing up, my dad took a hands-off approach to parenting. He was a hard-working, hard-talking, hard-living… Read More 0
Everything ELA • 5 min Read A Summer Reading Challenge for Teachers I have been an avid reader since birth. There are more pictures of me “reading” to my baby dolls than… Read More 0
Everything ELA • 3 min Read Keeping It Real: Authentic Vocabulary Acquisition Each week of the school year, my seventh-grade son brought home a list of twelve or so stems (i.e., roots… Read More 0