After going through my students' beginning of the year forms, I noticed many of them said they struggled with reading multisyllablic wor...

My day of frustrating them didn't end with math. Later in the day, we went over sorts.  They did "no way Jose and that's a fa...

I get to be creative again with my bulletin boards! In high school, I was class vice president. (Vice for Vice, see how well that campai...

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...

We have been working on decoding multisyllabic words this week during our word study. Well, day.  Monday was the only day we actually h...

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 ...

I love my small group discussions about novels. It's a little tricky to manage 12 groups and they're still a little loud at center...

Our classroom is a work in progress. Our word wall, for example, frequently gets new academic vocabulary words. The words are c...