January 7, 2018 11 Creating a Buzz About Books BookwormsRD reading event. All photos in this post by Ylonka Rodriguez Recently, a small bookstore in [...]
June 23, 2017 7 Creating a Professional Reading Blog with Google Sites I read quite a few professional books, highlighting as I go, and then very quickly forgetting most of what [...]
May 27, 2017 7 Merging #Booksnaps with Sketchnotes Example of a #BookSnap For the last little while, I’ve been playing with #BookSnaps, the very cool idea [...]
April 29, 2017 3 Exploring Theme – Teamwork in Action Our Language Arts team often gets together to discuss areas of difficulty and to [...]
April 15, 2017 26 The “No Grades” Experiment Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson Last year, Jean Erickson, our Language Arts teacher extraordinaire, gave [...]
February 25, 2017 6 Scaffolding Literary Analysis: Step-by-Step to Reach Success Let’s face it — for most students, literary analysis is just plain hard. And teaching it is even [...]
October 8, 2015 4 Teaching Vocabulary: Word of the Day Many of us were taught vocabulary by writing down a list of words and looking up their definitions in the [...]
September 6, 2015 1 Feeding the Reading Frenzy Our school has a strong reading culture,but in recent years our secondary students were [...]
February 9, 2015 2 Reading for a Cause: the TCFL Readathon One Tuesday morning, our Parent Support Group suggested we host a readathon at school. Because the word [...]
November 24, 2014 0 Revolution I just finished reading Deborah Wiles’ captivating historical fiction novel, Revolution, and it is [...]