Engaging Read-Alouds with Accountability
Read alouds are one of my favorite parts of teaching! Unfortunately, in this test driven system, 3rd graders are expected more and more to be doing passages instead of listening to read alouds; especially...
Category: Reading
First Day Tried & True Linky: Lesson Idea for the First Day!
When I first joined this amazing linky of First Day plans, I knew I wanted to share my favorite writing lesson for the first day. It gets students sharing and building relationships right from...
Engaging Introductions: Hook Them with Life Stories!
Your students love you. By January, they know you better than most of your coworkers. They know how to make you smile, laugh, and yell. They know when your glance from across the room...
Top Five from 2014 and a SALE!
I love the idea of ending 2014 with a look back at my year in blogging. It was been a rough road for me trying to juggle school, home, mommy-duties, church, and creating products...
How We Do Fluency in 3rd Grade
Here in third grade, we practice fluency daily with: -Word Lists -Phrase Lists -Passages/Running Records My Mental Journey I have had a love-hate relationship with fluency. As a third grade teacher, my students...
Synthesis Interactive Notebook
I have been using interactive notebooks for everything these days and the kids and I are loving it! The new buzz word in my classroom is “pizazz”! One day, a student said that I...
Guided Reading Organization
I absolutely love reading about how other teachers organize for productivity. I learned many tips and tricks since I started blog-hopping that I don’t even know which of my ideas are original. But, that’s...
Interactive Reading Notebooks
What have we been up to lately? Grammar notebooks! Well, my students don’t actually have grammar notebooks, they have reading notebooks. In our reading interactive notebooks we keep reading foldables, grammar foldables, poetry, guided...
Interactive Reading Notebook!
Happy almost end of summer! This is my last week of complete freedom. Next week the school opens up for teachers to begin setting up their rooms and the following week is work week....
Reading Ten Pin Party
I am so excited to be joining Ashley from Just Reed for her Ten Pin linky party. I just love sharing my amazing Pinterest pins and this week the theme is reading. Here’s...
