“The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.” – Unknown Stumbling blocks or stepping stones? What times we are living in now, with such a large distance between us and our students. In our presentations,…
Writer’s Workshop: Paper Choices
So many options for PAPER in Writer’s Workshop, right? You of course could just have your students write in a notebook, but we miss a lot of opportunity to scaffold the writing kids do by providing the paper. And- with…
Author’s Craft and Mentor Texts
There are all kinds of buzz words in education, aren’t there? I mean, you hear about differentiation, rigorous learning, best practice, anchor charts, balanced literacy, mentor texts, collaborative learning, models, word walls, and so much more. Sometimes it can be…
Would You Rather?
I’ve been sharing an idea for the Writing Work Station for years! It’s called WOULD YOU RATHER! You have a bunch of questions ready to go and students have to WRITE their answers- of course also taking into account the…
Classroom Organization: PART ONE
Please enjoy this guest blog post from Central Texas Organizers… we can all learn a thing or two about letting go! I STILL have a storage unit of teacher stuff? Don’t tell anyone! When to Let Go As a classroom…