Tag: Teaching
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14 Essential Reading Lessons to Start Your School Year Strong
My favorite years of teaching were when I taught these skills at the beginning and then built on them throughout the rest of the year.
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Long Time, No Write: Life Updates
Readers, it has been ages since I posted. I’ve missed writing here! The last blog post I drafted (but never published) was a Nov/Dec 2022 Recent Reads. In case you’re interested, here are a few of the books I was going to highlight and definitely recommend. I’ll let you look…
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Playing the Long Game
My Thursday this week was a great snapshot of the highs and lows of being a teacher. On the one hand, half of my classes went great: the kids were participating with positive attitudes, we had minimal moments of needing to redirect behavior, and I saw some magical moments where…
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Things Good Readers Do: Series Wrap-up
This post may contain affiliate links, which means I’ll receive a commission if you purchase through my links, at no extra cost to you. Please read full disclosure for more information. The Things Good Readers Do series is coming to an end today. Woohoo! My goal through this series has been to…
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Things Good Readers Do: Summarize
This post may contain affiliate links, which means I’ll receive a commission if you purchase through my links, at no extra cost to you. Please read full disclosure for more information. We’re coming down to the last couple of blog posts in this (admittedly long) series! So far, in part 1, we’ve…
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Things Good Readers Do: Make Connections
This post may contain affiliate links, which means I’ll receive a commission if you purchase through my links, at no extra cost to you. Please read full disclosure for more information. In the previous post of this series, I went over the strategy of visualization and how I teach it. This strategy…
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Things Good Readers Do: Visualize
This post may contain affiliate links, which means I’ll receive a commission if you purchase through my links, at no extra cost to you. Please read full disclosure for more information. In part 1 of this series, we went through some essential habits that good readers develop in their lives. In part…
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Things Good Readers Do: Predict and Question
After a few weeks’ hiatus, we’re back with the second part of the Things Good Readers Do series! Hopefully the timing of this post (and others) will be right on target for teachers who are doing some research over the summer on how to more explicitly target strategies when teaching…
a Look at a Book 