Reading and Writing Thoughts

Essential Tools for Your Conferring Toolkit

Essential Tools for Your Conferring Toolkit

Conferring is the single most important part of the instructional day...in my opinion! This part of the instructional day is filled with students receiving individualized and differentiated instruction based on...

Essential Tools for Your Conferring Toolkit

Conferring is the single most important part of the instructional day...in my opinion! This part of the instructional day is filled with students receiving individualized and differentiated instruction based on...

What's in your Progress Monitoring Playbook?

What's in your Progress Monitoring Playbook?

Build a playbook of easy-to-use tools for tracking your learners’ progress and guiding them to set reasonable goals in reading and writing.Take a sneak peek into this playbook that has been put together...

What's in your Progress Monitoring Playbook?

Build a playbook of easy-to-use tools for tracking your learners’ progress and guiding them to set reasonable goals in reading and writing.Take a sneak peek into this playbook that has been put together...

Reading Tools You Can Use to Uncover Readers' N...

This little tool provides guiding questions for informally assessing stop and jots about reading, longer written responses, running records, conferring notes, engagement inventories, interest surveys and how readers engage in...

Reading Tools You Can Use to Uncover Readers' N...

This little tool provides guiding questions for informally assessing stop and jots about reading, longer written responses, running records, conferring notes, engagement inventories, interest surveys and how readers engage in...

First Day of School Lesson Plan for Language Arts

First Day of School Lesson Plan for Language Arts

The first day of school is SO busy! The days leading up to the first day are filled with preparing the classroom and meetings. I want to take one thing...

First Day of School Lesson Plan for Language Arts

The first day of school is SO busy! The days leading up to the first day are filled with preparing the classroom and meetings. I want to take one thing...

6 Activities to Make Student Growth VISIBLE for Year End Celebration

6 Activities to Make Student Growth VISIBLE for...

Test scores aren’t the complete picture of a reader and a writer. We shouldn’t let standardized testing scores define a student’s growth and progress in literacy. Let’s face it…some kids...

6 Activities to Make Student Growth VISIBLE for...

Test scores aren’t the complete picture of a reader and a writer. We shouldn’t let standardized testing scores define a student’s growth and progress in literacy. Let’s face it…some kids...

Is it time for an INSTRUCTIONAL REFRESH?

Is it time for an INSTRUCTIONAL REFRESH?

You want your learners to be reflective. You want to give your learners what they need when they need it!   Because, after all, your learners are why you do what you do!  When you take the path your...

Is it time for an INSTRUCTIONAL REFRESH?

You want your learners to be reflective. You want to give your learners what they need when they need it!   Because, after all, your learners are why you do what you do!  When you take the path your...