Teaching in the 21st Century

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Wednesday Word Work: Celebrating Peter Reynolds

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                              Word study this week was unplanned.  Shh our secret! Rush out purchase this book!  I would have given a m...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Wednesday Word Work Reflection

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My first week of lessons plans for word study were blown out of the water the first day of school.  When I begin each workshop with inquir...
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Saturday, August 11, 2018

Celebrating Choice in the New Year

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I'm celebrating NOT spending days setting up my classroom.  I'm looking forward to school starting next Wednesday and meeting my n...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Wednesday Word Work: August Lesson Thinking

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It is a personal challenge to help my new wordsmiths flip their thinking about word work. I always ask how many of you enjoy ----- fill in ...
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Monday, July 16, 2018

Spotlight: You Never Know Unless You Try

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Twitter is my summer PD! I learn so much from reading tweets and going down the rabbit holes of all the links. I want to spotlight Li...
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Monday, July 2, 2018

It's Monday Here's What I'm Reading: Newbery Edition

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One of the three areas that I am committing to for my blog is sharing more of my reading life. This is so much easier in the summer when ...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Wednesday Word Work: What's in a Name?

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Their story that we need to unfold! I want to embrace my new students'name and honor their history. I am constantly shocked when I...
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Welcome to 30 years of teaching. One of my goals is to build life long readers and writers. My passion is words! I love word play, searching for words and pushing my students to expand their vocabulary. There are roads that I haven't traveled down, but I am always ready to learn something new.
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