Free Literacy Block Reflection
The end of the school year is the best time to get ideas for next year. All the successful and failed experiments are still fresh in my...
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- Feb 23
- 3 min
5 Ways to Introduce a Novel
Some books, maybe most, don’t require much introduction. Novels, to some extent, exist in their own world.
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- Jan 24
- 3 min
The Best Engagement Strategy: Scaffolding and Guided Notes
It feels like it’s getting harder and harder to keep the attention of our students. Every teacher knows that if a student doesn’t use ...
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- Feb 17, 2022
- 4 min
Whole-Novel Activities
Early in my career, I remember rolling through a novel chapter by chapter with PowerPoint slides and handouts. It always drove me crazy ...
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- Jan 11, 2022
- 3 min
New Year, New Habits: Reflecting on Reflecting
It’s a new year and this will be my 100th blog and podcast, so I’ve been thinking about reflection, the mental process of looking back and t
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- Nov 16, 2021
- 3 min
Hourglass Unit Planning: From Large to Small to Large
Every time I sit down to plan a unit, I think about how I can move inward, into the mind of the protagonist. I want to go from the external
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