Monday
Catch a Ride of the Reader-ship: The Transformative Power of Reading
In this post, we recommend five titles that you can use with students to support conversations about forming reading habits in your classroom.
Tuesday
Learning on the Menu or How to Prepare a Ham
Blog post that tells the story of a family tradition of preparing a ham by cutting off the ends. The post connects the story to intentional lesson planning around the Common Core.
Wednesday
Selecting Texts for Read Aloud: 8 Questions
In this post, we talk about how to select read aloud texts for elementary students and offers 8 reflective questions for choosing read aloud texts.
Thursday
In this post, we analyze summarizing and retelling tasks across CCSS literature standard two. This piece connects the standard to a lesson with Laurel Croza’s book, I KNOW HERE.
Friday
Friday Favorites: Text-Based Responses vs. Text-Based Answers
In this post, we extend our thinking about a post we wrote earlier in the week, Selecting Texts for Read Aloud: 8 Questions and refer readers to our post Text-based Answers or Text-based Responses to help deepen thinking about this important topic.
