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Tag Archives: Kindergarten
Every Child Reading–Dr. Margie Gillis Presentation
In case you missed it, you can access an October 28th presentation by Dr. Margie B. Gillis on helping Kindergarten through 3rd grade students with reading. Dr. Gillis is the president of Literacy How, Inc. and research affiliate, Haskins Laboratories … Continue reading
Posted in Professional Development
Tagged 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Dr. Margie Gillis, Fairfield, Haskins Laboratories, Kindergarten
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Instructional Move Number 10: Cold Call
“Cold Call” is outlined in Doug Lemov’s book Teach Like a Champion. The move involves calling on students whether they have their hands up or not. The technique has the advantages of keeping the pace of the class moving, increasing … Continue reading
Kindergarten Readiness Resources
Kindergarten teacher Haley Snyder has created a webpage detailing how parents can support their children with the Nevada Academic Content Standards/Common Core. There are three specific areas to help families including sections on, What is Common Core, Kindergarten Prep, and Parent & … Continue reading
Posted in CCSS
Tagged Alice Smith, CCSS, Common Core, Haley Snyder, Kindergarten, parents, Readiness, Washoe
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Additions to www.63000resources.com
A number of resources and materials have been added to http://www.63000resources.com. Like everything else at the site, the items are free and well aligned to the shifts and the Instructional Practice Guides. The “Year at a Glance” planning tool for … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1st, 2nd, CCSS, Common Core, discussion, earth, families, flipchart, Kindergarten, read-aloud, seasons, space, weather
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New Resources at www.63000resources.com
A number of new links were added to http://www.63000resources.com including: Free K-8 passages by reading level (here) Common Core Implementation Guide for School-Level Leaders from the Aspen Institute (here) Graphic organizer to practice textual evidence (here) K-5 Writing Rubrics (here) … Continue reading
Posted in Writing to Sources
Tagged 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, Kindergarten, passages, reading, rubrics, writing
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Washoe Starts Scaling the Read Aloud Project (RAP)
Chris Hayes, Ben Dickson, and Kristen Campbell moved district educators through the Read Aloud Project training materials and lessons. The training looked at text complexity, text-dependent questions, and completed RAP lessons. The RAP is a joint venture between Student Achievement … Continue reading
Posted in Professional Development, Read-aloud Alignment Project
Tagged 1st, 2nd, Charlotte’s Web, Common Core, K-2, Kindergarten, NGSS, RAP, Read Aloud Project, read-aloud, Social Studies
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Gaining Access to the Read Aloud Project for K-2
Educators, from throughout the country, are gathered in Las Vegas to train on the Read Aloud Project (RAP). RAP is an effort to create Common Core-aligned lessons for K-2 picture, informational, and chapter books. Lessons include text-dependent questions, Language exploration, … Continue reading
Teaching Annotation
Annotation seems to be a popular subject judging from the email I received asking for direction with this instructional approach. The following might help. In an article that appeared in The Reading Teacher, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey describe a … Continue reading
Posted in Close Reading, Text-Dependent Questions
Tagged 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, annotating, annotations, CCSS, Close Reading, Common Core, Kindergarten, scope and sequence, text-dependent questions
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‘How to Annotate’
A popular request from the Instructional Practice Guide session were the annotations posters featured in the intermediate grade video (here). Although we do not have copies of the posters, we did capture images of the posters and have posted them … Continue reading
Posted in Professional Development
Tagged 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, alignment, annotating, annotations, CCSS, Common Core, Kindergarten
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Changes to Nevada Education
The Las Vegas Sun has written an article describing the changes to state law, now that the current legislative session has ended, that will impact what we do in our classrooms. This includes new graduation requirements, new class size ratios, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Doughman, class size, Common Core, ELL, HSPE, Kindergarten, Las Vegas Sun
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Core Task Project 