Reading/Writing Workshop

March 3, 2018 2

For the past six weeks, in my Language Arts class, I’ve been experimenting with what I call [...]

January 7, 2018 11

BookwormsRD reading event. All photos in this post by Ylonka Rodriguez Recently, a small bookstore in [...]

June 23, 2017 7

I read quite a few professional books, highlighting as I go, and then very quickly forgetting most of what [...]

May 27, 2017 7

Example of a #BookSnap For the last little while, I’ve been playing with #BookSnaps, the very cool idea [...]

April 29, 2017 3

Our Language Arts team often gets together to discuss areas of difficulty and to [...]

April 15, 2017 26

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson Last year, Jean Erickson, our Language Arts teacher extraordinaire, gave [...]

February 25, 2017 6

Let’s face it — for most students, literary analysis is just plain hard. And teaching it is even [...]

October 8, 2015 4

Many of us were taught vocabulary by writing down a list of words and looking up their definitions in the [...]

September 6, 2015 1

Our school has a strong reading culture,but in recent years our secondary students were [...]

February 9, 2015 2

One Tuesday morning, our Parent Support Group suggested we host a readathon at school. Because the word [...]

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