Igniting the Love for Reading: My Top 5 Secrets Revealed!
My first five years teaching, my goal was to get students to pass the end of year reading test. Being dropped into a testing grade your first year is wild, especially if you have...
Category: Reading
5 People to Read About for Asian-Pacific Heritage Month in May
May is Asian-Pacific Heritage Month, a time to celebrate and recognize the contributions and achievements of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans. If you’ve been following me over the years, you know how much I...
Front Board Fun: Simplifying Classroom Walls for Better Learning
Hey there, teacher besties! Today I’m sharing how using my front chalkboard as a rotating content display has upped engagement and kept my walls looking clean. We all want our classrooms to be warm,...
Planning the Small Details to Prep my Students for the Big Test
It’s March, which means I’ve found myself in test prep season yet again. Since apparently I’ll never be satisfied (cue Angelica Schyler for all my Hamilton lovers), I’ve switched up my test prep plan...
I cut down the time I spent planning and built a minilesson library!
I was spending a lot of time planning and prepping for reading lessons, especially the first few days of a new skill. We typically focus on one reading skill a week which meant my...
Creating a Culture of Reading: Picture Book Companions to Save You Time
I don’t know about you, but in my 11 years of teaching, I have had quite a few days where I run around nonstop all day, just to wonder on the drive home if...
Poetry Month in 15 Minutes a Day
I admit, I have never been one to go all out for National Poetry Month in April. I enjoy reading poems with my class and poetry books definitely get their rotation in my monthly...
Standards Based Portfolios in My Classroom
Welcome to my blog! I wanted to return with an update on how our standards-based portfolios are going. If you missed my initial post about this, you can check it out here. First some...
Test Prep World Trip
Well, it’s almost that time again…test-prep season. Every year when pacing runs out and we enter our review/prep period before the state test, I like to switch things up for my 3rd grade readers....
Read Alouds for the First Week of School
My number one goal for the first week back to school is building a community with my students. I believe that community is created through shared experiences. One of the ways I create shared...
