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The Education Gap Widens- What Next?
First off, bear with me in this one.I ran into this article on Facebook this week:Education Gap Grows Between Rich and Poor, Studies SayBy SABRINA TAVERNIS Published: February 9, 2012 “The pattern of...
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Reading + Pinning + Doing (8)
Time is short tonight because it's almost 8pm, and I still have to whip out my lesson plans for the week, so, here's and abbreviated post for you- ReadingStill reading The Idiot by Dostoevsky. I'm at...
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My First Award!!
Many thanks to Jennifer at Teaching with a Smile for (my first!) blog award! I'm very flattered!The Liebster Award is given to up-and-coming bloggers with less than 200 followers. I'm going to pass on...
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Reading + Pinning + Doing (9)
ReadingHere are a couple of our library favs from the past week:Rap a Tap Tap by Leo and Diane Dillion is a preschooler's story of BoJangles, an American tap dancer. This has great repetition and...
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Teaching Tipster: Teaching Questioning to Improve Comprehension
After working with my students with this reciprocal teaching framework for the past month, I realized that they need a lot more explicit teaching on questioning. I really like the questioning model...
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A is for Aaron: Early Literacy + Toddler Art
Cool uncle #2 spontaneously came over on Saturday, and my little one wanted to make him a present (she started getting out the wrapping paper...saying, "present for Uncle Aaron.") So I thought of...
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Accidental Reading Nook
My hubby and I put together our daughter's big girl bed last night- so long crib (and so long baby). The Ikea bed is longer than her crib, but we're using the same mattress. To problem solve- I threw a...
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Reading + Pinning + Doing (10)
I was having some techinical difficulties...But here it is (a day late)ReadingTo balance Dostoevsky's The Idiot(a dense, slow read), I picked up Why We Get Fat, by Gary Taubes. I'm not much of a non...
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Reading + Pinning + Doing (11)
ReadingOne Day and One Amazing Morning on Orange Streetby Joanne Rocklin: I'm reading this book aloud to my 4th and 5th grade students. We've read the first couple of chapters. The kids that live on...
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Assessment Woes and Wahoos!
I have been holed up all day giving reading assessments. We're finishing Cycle 2 of our RtI Interventions, and after spring break we head into Cycle 3. I have 2 helpful interventionists Dibeling away,...
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Teaching Tipster: Clarifying Unknown Words
When I use this Predicting, Clarifying, Questioning, and Summarizing form with my students, for each book we read in small group. First, they choose the vocabulary words that are challenging for them....
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Spring Break Has Officially Begun
Relaxing and playing out on the front sidewalk...a great start to spring break!
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Reading + Pinning + Doing (12)
I've been absent from bloglandia for a couple of weeks- I was sick, piled with school work, and then spring break began- and we went off to DC to visit family. We had a great trip, with some of the...
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Reading + Pinning + Doing (13)
Hope your spring is going well! It's lovely weather out here in Oakland, CA-- with the sun shining and the flowers blooming!Reading Personal The Book Thiefby Markus Zusak: I'm reading this before I go...
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Reading + Pinning + Doing (14)
ReadingPersonalThe Book Thiefby Markus Zusak: This is a slow read, and I'm still working on it. I've made it to about page 400 out of 550 pages. I'm still enjoying it, but wish ot was a quicker...
View ArticleLearning Language One Noun at a Time
I'm sure if you have a toddler you can attest to fact that these wee ones ask the same question over and over. So my daughter has 3 questions that she asks everyone she meets/interacts with.I brought...
View ArticleHelp Please! Book Suggestions?!
I have been a blogging bum for the past couple of months and I apologize! It's, unfortunately, easy to neglect keeping up with my blog when life gets busy. But now I have NO excuses....We (my hubby and...
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One Awesome Book List!
As mentioned in my last post, I put together a list of books for potential donors to purchase for program participants at Harbor House, the non-profit where I'll be working come mid-August.I'm psyched...
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My Daughter's Literacy Journey- 2 years, 9 months
Since I'm a reading specialist, I look at a lot of daughter's development in terms of her development into the reader and writer that she will become some day (I know I'm such a nerd). I hope to track...
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Recent Book Favs (1)
I know...It's been a long while. Does life get busy, or what? I'm actually supposed to be grading right now, but I said, heck with it!, I'm gonna do some blogging instead!My husband tells me not to...
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