Enlivening Learning with Breakout Activities
…a Good Time To Do Breakout Games? Breakout games are great to use for reviewing material, reinforcing concepts, building community, and anytime you want to help your students shake off…
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鈥淩eading is Growing Our Readers鈥�
…with to build literacy capacity in their community. A school-wide field trip to get all of their students to library. (Resulting in 253 new library card applications!) Educational programming for…
How Storytelling Is a Path to a More Diverse, Empathetic World
…is converted into electrical pulses. These pulses build models of whatever information the letters provide. Essentially, our brain rebuilds the model world that was originally imagined by the author. This…
Book Pairing Ideas: Romeo and Juliet
…Luckily, my English 9 colleagues here in the building have been thinking about making the same instructional adjustments next year. We have been collaborating to build a list of robust…
We Shouldn’t Always Feel Comfortable: Why ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Matters
…world-building, but it’s hard to see that at 14 and it feels long). I think Atticus Finch, as brilliant a character as he is, falls into some dangerous “white savior”…
Fire, Flight, and Fight
…In Missouri, their family has the support of their communities at school, at church, and in loving circles of friends. They will still need to rebuild careers and support systems…
Cultural Updates to Narrative Reading Strategies
…available in PDF form.) A quick addendum to either of these two popular strategies could be far-reaching to build cultural competence. The S-W-B-S strategy (MacOn, Bewell & Vogt, 1991; Beers,…
Quashing Disability Myths through the Lived Experience of Authors: Three New Middle Grade Books
…leading a 26-day sit-in at a government building in San Francisco—only one of her brilliant activist moves that forced the signing of regulations needed to enforce Section 504 of the…
Field Notes: Introducing the 荔枝视频 Village
…or hard moment you open the door to new connections and help to build a real picture of what it means to be a literacy teacher today. Stories shared in…
Think Big with Think-Alouds
…serve merely to assess our students’ understanding of the text. Our time is better spent using language that builds their understanding, by showing them the thinking we are doing. As…
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