Must-Have Mentor Text: The Best Story | Ideas by Jivey
Aaaaah, my weekends are going by so fast now that I’m back in school! It’s so sad! But, of course, I can’t let a weekend go by without linking up to my cuties!! Today, I want to share a book I use to get Writing Workshop started: The book shows how a writer must write …
Young Author Portfolios and Celebration - Tunstall's Teaching Tidbits
Tunstall's Teaching Tidbits: Young Author Portfolios and Celebration
Quotable - Janet Fitch
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Writing Clubs
Students meet in writing clubs every Friday to discuss a few of their writing pieces they created in Writing Workshop. Each person is allowed 10 minutes to read a story from their notebook, while the other students in the group help them with spelling, story development, punctuation, etc. It's a gre...
Quotable - Andrea Cremer
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My Reading Notebooks
This year, I revised the materials in my reader's notebooks. I'm using a combo of a binder and a notebook for reading workshop this year, ...
Writing Unit 2 - Personal Narrative
your writer's notebook is like a dressing room in a store - you go in, try things on, see how they work, and then make decisions.
A Writing Strategy and a Spooktacular Giveaway!
I've been sharing a lot of writing tips lately but that's because my school is really focused on writing so naturally I am as well. The strategy I'm going to share today can actually apply to any subject! For the second year in a row my teaching team and I have been giving students individual learning goals. We present our overall learning goal to our students as well as the success criteria (I can statements). There are usually around 5 statements we are working on. We found this to be a…
Editable Decorate Student Writing Journals Handout (FREE)
This is a one page handout to guide students in decorating the cover of their writing journal. Students can take the handout home as a reminder of their task and show their parents. There is also page of information about how I use this in my classroom. The text on the handout is EDITABLE! :) Pl...
Life in 4B...
'4B' was the code our school secretary used to easily identify our class back when I taught 4th grade. 4 = 4th grade. B = Bongers. I later went on to teach Language Arts at a middle school, so this blog documents the learning we did in reading and writing each day, in addition to many posts from when I taught fourth grade. I figured keeping it all in one place was better than having two separate blogs. One more thing: please feel free to PIN anything you see!
Writing Workshop Conference Checklist
This is a writing workshop conference sheet created to help organize writing conferences with students. It is set up as a checklist to make it a little easier to document each conference. The words "I can..." (a compliment) and "My new goal..." (what the student should consciously be working on and ...
Kindergarten Rocks!
17 More Days and I will be at the I Teach K conference in Las Vegas. There are 14 of my family and friends going to Vegas that week. My bestie friend and I will be attending the conference on Tuesday and Thursday. It was so hard to choose 2 days. I wish I could go all 4 days! I am so excited to learn so many new ideas to bring back to my classroom. Are you going? Amber