Today is the fourth day of my five-day series on using innovations in your classroom during writing workshop. For today’s post, I’m highlighting The Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups by David Wisniewski. In case you aren’t familiar with this book, it’s written from a kid’s point of view and has interesting graphics that make the book…
Today is the third day of my five-day series on using innovations in your classroom during writing workshop. For today’s post, I’m highlighting Never Take a Shark to the Dentist: (and Other Things Not to Do) by Judi Barrett, The Book of Bad Ideas by Laura Huliska Beith, and Greatest Homework Excuse Book Ever written…
Today is the second day of my five-day series on using innovations in your classroom during writing workshop. For today’s post, I’m highlighting The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown. This book is written by the same author as Goodnight Moon, and it’s another simple story. Familiar items (like apples or spoons) are highlighted in…
Today is the first day of my five-day series on using innovations in your classroom during writing workshop. For today’s post, I’m highlighting Fortunately by Remy Charlip. This is a great book to use for innovations because its pattern is very easy to follow. It’s written in see-saw format, alternating pages of good and bad…
Did you guess what yesterday’s sneak preview video was about? INNOVATIONS! I blogged about using innovations during writing workshop at the end of March and promised to return to follow up with some free writing ideas soon. After gathering my innovation files from school, I’ve decided to make a series of five innovation posts to…
Hi, everyone! You can tell it’s spring break because I’ve had enough energy to post my very first teaching blog video! I’m super excited about April being National Poetry Month because I love, love, love our poetry unit each year. It’s always such a great way to ease back into school after spring break. I’ve…
Writing workshop is one of my favorite times of the day. I wanted to share one of my favorite writing workshop ideas with you… innovations! Innovations are great ways to jump-start student writing because students take familiar books and rewrite them with their own twist. I have several books that I use for innovations each…
I love using foldables in the classroom. When I saw Laura Candler was having a linky party FULL of foldables, I admit that I was super excited. I mostly use them for writing workshop, but they are always great to use for vocabulary and word work too. My absolute favorite foldables are the ones we…
Last week I promised to write about one of our favorite St. Patrick’s activities. Each year I have my students participate in the Great Potato Disguise Contest. I found the idea on the internet four or five years ago and have been adapting it ever since. I held off on writing this post until I…