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Why All Readers Should Build a Reading Toolkit

Why All Readers Should Build a Reading Toolkit

A Reader’s Toolkit is developed over time. It’s not just a computer program thrown at kids with a bunch of questions about reading that the reader may or may not...

Why All Readers Should Build a Reading Toolkit

A Reader’s Toolkit is developed over time. It’s not just a computer program thrown at kids with a bunch of questions about reading that the reader may or may not...

5 Sections EVERY Reader's Notebook Should Have

5 Sections EVERY Reader's Notebook Should Have

The Reader's Notebook is so much more than a place to complete independent reading activities and tasks. It's an instructional tool that you and the student can use together to...

5 Sections EVERY Reader's Notebook Should Have

The Reader's Notebook is so much more than a place to complete independent reading activities and tasks. It's an instructional tool that you and the student can use together to...

Simple Plan for the PERFECT Family Literacy Night

Simple Plan for the PERFECT Family Literacy Night

Planning a successful literacy night for parents that meets the purpose and provides families with strategies to use at home can be overwhelming. However, if you have a checklist and...

Simple Plan for the PERFECT Family Literacy Night

Planning a successful literacy night for parents that meets the purpose and provides families with strategies to use at home can be overwhelming. However, if you have a checklist and...

9 Secrets of Effective Minilessons

9 Secrets of Effective Minilessons

An effective minilesson is short and packed with a powerful message that will ignite and motivate your readers to actively engage in their independent reading work. 

9 Secrets of Effective Minilessons

An effective minilesson is short and packed with a powerful message that will ignite and motivate your readers to actively engage in their independent reading work. 

Reader's Notebook: How to Set Up This Powerful Instructional Tool

Reader's Notebook: How to Set Up This Powerful ...

The Reader's Notebook can be the most powerful instructional tool within the classroom.  The Reader's Notebook is the place in which readers can see themselves as readers and watch as...

Reader's Notebook: How to Set Up This Powerful ...

The Reader's Notebook can be the most powerful instructional tool within the classroom.  The Reader's Notebook is the place in which readers can see themselves as readers and watch as...

Easy to Use Literacy Tools Sure to Boost Active Student Engagement

Easy to Use Literacy Tools Sure to Boost Active...

Readers need literacy tools to help guide them through the process of developing their reading comprehension skills into that of a proficient reader.  A Literacy Tool will break an abstract...

Easy to Use Literacy Tools Sure to Boost Active...

Readers need literacy tools to help guide them through the process of developing their reading comprehension skills into that of a proficient reader.  A Literacy Tool will break an abstract...