September 24, 2018 4 Reading Aloud in Secondary Recently on a Twitter chat, some teachers raised the question of reading aloud to students, mentioning that [...]
September 2, 2018 0 Using Student Work as Mentor Texts Every time we make a change in the classroom, there are unexpected repercussions. Some positive, some more [...]
March 3, 2018 2 Using Student Mentor Texts In Writing Workshop For the past six weeks, in my Language Arts class, I’ve been experimenting with what I call [...]
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 [...]