She/her. (HS English) Teacher. Mom. Wife. Ally. Learner. Runner. Reader. Current mantra: Real teaching is messy work.
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Thinking about heading into Quarter 2 with a small self-assessment, something like “What did you learn about yourself as a learner in Quarter 1 that could help you reach your goals in Quarter 2?” Other ideas? @srasteele215 @MsFeudo @PamelaAbate @Dbearden080809
This is reading wisdom and joy! I love #7. Be promiscuous & “seek the serendipity of stacks.”
10 tips for a better reading life:
1. Quit bad books
2. Always carry a book
3. Use airplane mode
4. Read w/ a pencil
5. No guilty pleasures!
6. Visit the past
7. Be promiscuous
8. Browse the stacks
9. Say, “It wasn’t for me.”
10. Share what you love
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Let’s say you were looking to up your reading conference game with high school students. Which resources would you turn to first? @RebekahODell1 @pennykittle @trustingreaders @a2matthew @pernilleripp
What’s a reading quiz for? To hold students accountable, to see how much they understand, to get them to dig in and analyze. I’ve run the gamut from no quiz to impossible detail-recall-guess-what-I’m-thinking quiz. Here’s what’s working for me right now:
1. Make a timeline of 5 key events from this section.
2. Choose 1 event + explain why this is the most significant. Defend your choice in 2-3 sentences.
3. Choose one of the following pages/passages/panels and analyze the author’s/artist’s choices. (After we’ve modeled/practiced)
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A1: Support independent reading
for all students
every day.
#G2Great
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"In many classrooms, reading instruction loses sight of the broader joys of reading and the process of learning to become a reader. Attention to reading identities provides a robust reminder that reading is more than skills."🌟@chrjwag
My favorite Halloween writing prompt is a 2-min film called “Struck” put out by Snickers in 2021. Such engaged writing every time! @RebekahODell1 @a2matthew ispot.tv/ad/qSy1/snickers-bi…
Timelining key events in The Parable of the Sower with seniors. We discovered tracking plot can get complicated in graphic novels like this one.
Only sharing successes creates an illusion of what teaching is really like. So, for the sake of being real, today’s 1st block (92 min) was a drag. After a long weekend, I felt scattered. Students were reluctant to share. Eyes were on the clock. It happens, even in year 20.
Teachers are kind of amazing. Marveling over how good some have become at delivering rich, interactive, community-based Zoom PD experiences. Thanks @TchKimPossible & @trustingreaders !
Responses reveal such good metacognition:
-“It is difficult to understand what is imagined or real.”
-“She seems like a rebel and I think they have a right-knit church and she doesn’t even believe in it.
-“the setting…it changes and moves around and my memory gets jumbled.”
Nothing builds book love better than former students dropping in to tell their younger peers what to read. ❤️📚
Seniors are engaged, already asking good questions about The Parable of the Sower graphic novel on Day 1. Thank you LEF for this grant! #TigerPride
Thank you, @TchKimPossible, for the inspiration (again) to #DisruptTexts and read amazing authors like Octavia E. Butler with my students. Your teachers’ guide gave me the idea and inspiration I needed.
