The importance of Read-Aloud (at school and home)
I recently read The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease after seeing Matt Renwick tweet about it several different times. I had it on my list of professional books to read,…
Daily 5 School-Wide Part 2
In my last post I shared with you an update on how we have gone school wide with the Daily 5/Cafe framework for teaching literacy. Just how committed to this…
Daily 5 School-Wide
A year and a half ago, I shared about the decision to go school-wide with Daily 5. Since this post I have had a few requests from colleagues in my…
Why Students Don’t Read What is Assigned in Class
*This is blog post #5 in the 2012 Summer Blog Challenge* Since our building has goneschool-wide with Daily 5/Cafe, my beliefs on teaching literacy have changed dramatically from when I…
Teaching with Daily 5/Cafe for Summer School — My Reflections
This is a cross-post from my staff blog...the first of my blog posts to model reflection for my teachers (and "putting myself out there" for them). Since I am asking…
Reflections from 2nd Graders…Why and How are we better readers?
We LOVE to read and because of The Daily 5 and CAFE Menu, that’s why!- Our classroom library has more books to choose from.- I know what I am reading…
The decision to go school-wide with Daily 5
Last year I had a second grade teacher come to me at the start of the year to ask my permission to change her literacy block to implement The Daily…