Hi everyone! Happy summer! I know I've been a pretty absent blogger this school year, but I hope to get some good posts in this summer. I've been taking classes to finally finish my reading endorsement and, at the same time, I'm trying to get my dyslexia certification. Soooo.... there goes most of my blogging time! I've had a lot of questions lately about how I manage centers during reading ... Read More about Managing Centers

It has been waaaaay too long! I've been MIA in blogger land for the past few months. My time that I usually gave to blogging has been taken over with online classes. I'm loving my classes, but I miss blogging! I have a super quick blog post for you today though! I've been reading Easter books to my kids at night. This week, we read these two books. As I was reading the second book, we all ... Read More about Easter Text Comparison

Last year, I added this author's style menu to my Jan Brett unit. This unit already had several activities for many Jan Brett books, but I realized I needed to add something to tie it all together. After all, the point of an author study to help kids make those connections and see those similarities among different books.  I sat down and thought about some common characteristics of many of ... Read More about Author’s Style Jan Brett

The Mitten is such a classic book to teach in the primary grades. There is SO much you can get out of it, yet it seems like we tend to stick to the basics: sequencing events. I wanted to shake it up a bit and show you some comprehension activities you could do with this lovable book that require other, more complicated, comprehension skills.  Two goals I have for these activities are to ... Read More about Digging Deeper with The Mitten

Today I'm home again because it's a snow day! We have more snow than I can ever remember having, which of course is SO exciting. All this snow has me in the mood to read snowy-themed books with my boys before bed. One we read last night is one that we've read several times already. I usually think of it as a simple book to read simply for enjoyment. I love turtles, and the main character is a ... Read More about Winter Book Snippet

After a little holiday break, I'm back at it. I needed to get this done before returning to school next week. Breaks always fly by, don't they?! I'll be using these activities with my kindergarten small groups. I'm working with students who need more practice to master their letters and sounds. They loved the activities from the fall set, so I went ahead and made a winter set of alphabet ... Read More about Alphabet Activities for Winter