Literacy
This is a catalog of my most popular posts on literacy topics
Decodable Books
- Why is Everyone Talking About Decodables? (Part 1 of 3)
- Choosing Decodables (Part 2 of 3)
- Decodable Text Sources (Part 3 of 3)
Literacy Instruction
- Reading
- Read Alouds in Middle School
- Literature Circles
- The Book versus The Movie
- Foreshadowing and Figurative Language
- Close Reading and Saint Valentine’s Day
- The Perfect Novel Unit
- Close Reading and Text-Based Reading
- Internet Research: Searching, Selecting and Citing Credible Sources
- Website Credibility
- Manipulatives
- Library & Independent Reading
- Reasons We Read and Write
- Books I Read This Summer
- Writing
- Dystopian Genre Literature Circles Reading/Writing Unit
- Argumentative Writing
- Art of Writing Conference 12/13
- Bring on the Debate!
- What is Argumentative Writing?
- Scholarship Letter Writing Unit
- Warm-ups / Journal Entries
- Writing Desk – A New Tool for Writing Workshop!
- My Book
- Blackout Poetry
- DVD Project Reader Response
- Art of Writing Conference 8/13
- Fingerprint Poetry
- Lucy Calkins Teacher’s College Writing Workshop
Supporting Resources
Intervention / Progress Monitoring
- 6 Really Good Reasons to Stop Using AIMSWeb MAZE Right Now
- Vocabulary, StudyBlue, and Reading Interventions
- Struggling Reader Interventions
- Fluency Practice that Actually Works
Literacy Research and Higher Education
- I thought I knew what dyslexia was…
- New Research in Literacy
- Children’s and Adolescent Literacy Course
- Reading Research Symposium
- Online Reading Comprehension
- WSRA Wisconsin State Reading Association – I summarize and reflect on what the new research I learn each year
High Five for Friday! (I celebrate 5 wins from the classroom and my life each week):
- High Five For Friday! 9/20/13
- High Five For Friday! 9/27/13
- High Five For Friday! 10/4/13
- High Five For Friday! 10/11/13
- High Five For Friday! 10/18/13
- High Five For Friday! 10/25/13
- High Five For Friday! 11/1/13
- High Five For Friday! 11/8/13
- High Five For Friday! 11/15/13
- High Five For Friday! 11/22/13
- High Five For Friday! 12/6/13
- High Five For Friday! 12/13/13
- High Five For Friday! 12/20/13
- High Five For Friday! 1/10/14
- High Five for Friday! 1/16/14
- High Five For Friday! 1/24/14
- High Five For Friday! 1-31-14!
- High Five For Friday! 2-7-14
- High Five For Friday! 2-14-14
- High Five For Friday! 2-21-14
- High Five For Friday! 2-28-14
- High Five for Friday! 3-7-14
- High Five For Friday! 3-21-14
- High Five for Friday! 3-28-14
- High Five For Friday! 4-4-14
- High Five For Friday! 4-11-14
- High Five For Friday! 5-2-14
- High Five For Friday! 5-9-14
- High Five For Friday! 5-16-14
- High Five for Friday! 5-23-14
- High Five for Friday! 5-30-14
- High Five for Friday! 6-6-14
- High Five For Friday! 9-5-14
- High Five For Friday! 9/12/14
- High Five For Friday! 9/19/14
- High Five for Friday! 9/26/14
- High Five For Friday! 10-3-14
- High Five For Friday! 10-10-14
- High Five for Friday! 10-17-14
- High Five For Friday! 10-24-14
- High Five For Friday! 10-31-14
- High Five For Friday! 11-6-14
- High Five for Friday! 10-14-14
- High Five For Friday! 11-21-14
- High Five for Friday! 12-5-14
- High Five for Friday! 12-12-14
- High Five for…. Tuesday?! 12/23/14
- High Five for Friday! 1-16-14
- High Five for Friday! 1-23-15
- High Five For Friday! 1-30-15
- High Five for Friday! 2-6-15
- High Five for Friday! 2-13-15
- High Five for Friday! 2-20-15
- High Five For Friday! 2-27-15
- High Five for Friday! 3-20-15