We are using these differentiation cubes ALL the time! ย Kids love rolling them and I love that they are quiet when students are using them. ย Some of the the links below are referralย links, which means, ย I will earn a commission if you make a purchase,ย at no additional cost to you. I ordered mine from Amazon. ย They are great for literacy… View Post
You and your team have done all the hard work. ย You’ve spent weeks teaching interventions to your small groups of students. ย Now what? ย It’s time to have an RTI Team Meeting to make thoseย important decisions about what tier each student should now be placed into. 1. ย Committee schedules a decision making meeting. As the RTI coordinator in my school, I… View Post
End of the year testing, state testing, reading and benchmark assessments, grade card skills….it’sย enough to make a teacher lose her mind! ย We all have toย do testing so we might as well make it as easy and painless as we can. ย 1. ย Go Digitalย ย Where ever you can go digital, do that! ย It saves you on time and paper…. View Post
We’ve been reading folktales and learning how to prove our answers. ย Since it is spring I decided to use Easter eggs to teach this skill. ย My students just love these stories! ย There is something about them that appeals to kids over the years. ย ย After having read our folktales, it was time to pass around the egg basket…. View Post
Candy Land Game Night! ย This was the theme of our recent Family Literacy Night. ย I think Game Night has been one of my favorite themes that we have done! ย The Candy Land colors were great for spring time and our families had a lot of fun. There was a lot of prepping to do before that night. ย We like to… View Post
Have you been to or hosted a book tasting party? ย They are a lot of fun and a great way to build up enthusiasm and engagement with all kinds of different books! My second gradersย were starting informational books, so I used non-fiction books for this Book Tasting party. ย But you can use all different genres of books. ย Most do use… View Post
We’ve been doing the Chunky Monkey Chop a lot recently during guided reading. ย It’s catchy and easy for the kids to remember! ย This reading strategy helps my little readers break apart words as they are reading. We started with a blank chart and students gave me different ways they would ย use Chunky Monkey to break a word. ย Name the strategy… View Post
