Child-Centered Reading Conferences
by Carolyn Wilhelm, Guest Blogger Oh, the joy of a really great novel with just enough suspense that the reader can barely put it down. Teachers work so hard at…
by Carolyn Wilhelm, Guest Blogger Oh, the joy of a really great novel with just enough suspense that the reader can barely put it down. Teachers work so hard at…
…and line as best they can. The kids really get into it! When I say “parallel lines”, their arms always move up over their heads in two straight lines. When…
…where they are. It’s also really helpful for your parent volunteers because they know exactly who’s in your class. Therefore, they feel more comfortable speaking to any of your students…
…really hard time with this one because I never liked authority (big surprise!) and felt that I should listen to my students’ opinions. But I learned that whether I liked…
…you that I had a really awesome group last year, and I’ll miss them. But the amazing thing is that every year, my new class is even better than the…
…Holiday Millions lottery game. One part of the story in particular really captured my interest: “Top prize winners in the Holiday Millions game have the option of claiming their prize…
…final essays on decorative paper. The “craftivity” part of the activity is what makes this project really special. Students staple their essays into a folder made from a large sheet…
…illustrations together, we saw that we really had created something very powerful. The stories were perfect for beginning readers with controlled vocabulary and the use of sight words. The illustrations…
…that kiddos do in workstations or centers is really kind of intimate; it’s close, personal work. How perfect to tie articulating learning goals in that setting! For them to be…
…that team members aren’t really listening to each other because they don’t link their ideas to what anyone else has said. Instead, it’s almost as if they’re simply waiting for…
…I share how it impacted our classroom. It’s not really a printer in the normal sense of the word because it doesn’t create 2-dimensional images on a piece of paper….
…webquests online can be a huge help in language arts, plus they love using the internet. It is a lot of extra prep, but they will really start responding and…