On day 2 of Thankful November, I'm pausing to be thankful for professional development. The professional development I'll be at...

Since I have the upper half of the grade level for small group reading, I focus on word work rather than phonemic awareness.  My students ar...

I've blogged about FCRR before and it's a wonderful free resource for literacy stations.  I love that it's broken up into grad...

For the first six months of the school year, I ran my small groups with ease. Okay, not ease per say, but with a relatively stress-free mi...

Since we are doing affixes and Greek & Latin roots during our whole group reading classes, I decided we needed to revise what we're...

I'm halfway through year five of teaching and my oh my have things changed. For the most part, I see the changes as a good thing.  I k...

We've been working on affixes and roots, so here's a snapshot of one of our weekly activities: They identify the word parts (...

This is the first year I've ever explicitly taught phonics and I'm seeing such a huge difference with my inclusion classroom! Befo...

Here are some of our updated anchor charts: Theme and constructed responses: Affixes: Greek & Latin Roots: Inflect...

This week, our school's power (vocabulary) word is strategy. In honor of this, I'll share about one of my new favorite strategi...

I'm pretty sure I spent my entire prep today working on anchor charts. Here are some updated images: Our phonics wall: ...

This week in phonics, we're reviewing r-controlled vowels.  This aligns with CLOVER as one of the six types of syllables.  To help my st...

So in our performance zone in our district, we have a facebook page (which you can follow here ).  Our school is clearly overachievers when ...

This year I'm having my students keep track of their writing with portfolios. During the first week of school, I had them fill ou...