| January
11, 2011
A
Literate Life - Julie Ballew is a literacy coach in our district
that I am blessed to work with and call my friend. Besides being
an amazing person, she's a wealth of literacy knowledge :-)
Structure
of Interactive Read Aloud - before, during and after
Structure
of Interactive Read Aloud - visual
From F&P... Just made it into a small chart: 12
Systems of Strategic Actions for Processing a Written Text (black
and white) and 12
Systems of Strategic Actions for Processing a Written Text (color)
December 11, 2011
STAAR - Vertical Alignment of Readiness & Supporting
Standards - Reading
& Writing
K-5
Recommended
Books from Chapter 9: Spotlight on Inferring and Summarizing from
Catching Readers Before They Fall
October 19, 2011
STAAR Personal
Narrative & Expository
Rubric - 4th Grade
September 14, 2011
I added notes from Teachers College
and a new guided reading planning sheet :-)
Some of the PTA moms and I reorganized the literacy library
last year. By assigning each book set, book box, and check out
card a specific location, it makes reshelving a snap!
 
After teachers are finished with their guided reading sets, they
return them in their designated basket. At a glance, parent volunteers
can easily see if books need to be reshelved.
September 6, 2011
After relocating my files from a remote server and onto
a new server at my house, I'm back online! It was a difficult
task and could not have been completed without the genius mind
of my stepbrother, Brad. Thanks, Brad, you rock!
It was such a blessing to attend Teachers College in New York
for the Advanced Writing Section this summer. Lots to share! New
stuff is on the way!
October 18, 2010
Writing
Workshop Animation: I created this visual for the opening
of PD on the overview of Writing Workshop.. Click *read only*
to view. Feel free to use in your PD ;-)
Writing
Workshop: Questions to Think About
July 19, 2010
Here are my notes from the Writing Institute from Teachers
College 2010. Holly's
Notes from TCWP
July 9, 2010
Long time no see! I am back from "dot com retirement".
I have cleaned things up a bit around here. Stay tuned for new
resources! :-)
November 9 , 2008
The Lucy Calkins workshop was fantastic.
I highly reccommend attending. I added a few anchor
chart pictures from mini lessons - silent reading voices,
Ken Goodman's Model of Proficient Silent Reading, Nonfiction Conventions.
October 2, 2008
just added under the pictures section: anchor
chart pictures from my mini lessons so far...
September 30, 2008
Here is a site that has great free photographs for projects.
Jupiter
Images I use these photos for the background of my morning
powerpoint for the kids. It plays a slideshow of their morning
duties.
August 28, 2008
I have lots of new things to upload... Finishing grad school,
moving, and starting a new school has been crazy! Stay
tuned! :-)
June 3, 2008
The new F&P
benchmark assessment has been out a few months
and is broken into 2 kits:
Kit #1: Grades K-2 with Levels A-N
Kit #2: Grades 3-8 with Levels L-Z
Each kit is $250.00.
Look at the running
record calculator/stopwatch it comes with! Even
if you don't purchase a kit, the nifty gadget can be bought separately
at 19.95!
August
17, 2007
This past school year, I wrote to 180 book companies
telling them about our campus. After stating the demographics
and extremely high number of our students living in low
socioeconomic environments, I asked if we could
receive free publication samples, over-runs, discontinuations
or warehouse samples from their company. This table shows the
overwhelming responses we received. Who would have thought? Ask
your Literacy Coach to do the same for your campus.
A
powerful visual I saw online:
August
12, 2006
Links!
Literacy Coaching Online
Mosaic
Listserve (great message board of ideas)
Leveling
Chart
Beth
Newingham's Clasroom. Visit her website! It is awesome!
www.mspowell.com
www.mandygregory.com
www.jmeacham.com
Free
Materials: www.highlightskids.com
has free printable stories. You could
use them during a mini lesson, shared read, or to send home for
kids to read. Here is the direct link to the stories. Highlights
Stories
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