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November 21, 2015

Just the Right Mentor Text: Bringing the CCSS to Life

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As I wrote last week , we changed our novel reading unit into a fantasy unit in order to more neatly implement the Common Core Reading Stan...
November 14, 2015

Re-visioning the Novel Unit for CCSS Implementation

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We are implementing the Common Core Reading Standards this year, which has caused some major revision of units—and not...
October 10, 2015

How can I help at home? Parental Support Suggestions

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I just finished meeting with 44 out of my 46 families during the two-day parent-student-teacher conferences last week. It was a marathon! T...
October 3, 2015

Scaffolding too much?

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Last spring, literacy consultant Stevi Quate came to our school to work with our secondary English Language Arts teachers. While here, she...
September 19, 2015

Ancient Civilizations of the Americas: a Historical Inquiry Project

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A couple of weeks ago, I shared my learning about the shifts needed for disciplinary literacy vs. content literacy in Social Studies. Sinc...
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