NONFICTION WRITERS DIG DEEP Book Review
“Empower children and show them their voices matter.” Patricia Newman “…ignite a sense of wonder about things we don’t understand and convey it’s okay not
#50 Precious Words Contest
The writer, Vivian Kirkfield’s #50PreciousWords contest, asks adults (a children’s #50PreciousWords is coming later in the year) to create a story using just 50 words!
7 Things I Learned from Ursula Nordstrom
The librarian at the public library in the Bronx used to light a candle before reading aloud to the children gathered before her, highlighted her
The Power of “Poem of the Week”
What is it? “Poem of the Week” is an activity for home or school. All you need to do is select a poem and post
Learning about Articulation
“The favored explanation is that teaching beginners to monitor mouth positions served to activate the articulatory features of phonemes in words as students practiced reading
Start with “Hatchet” and See What Happens!
One way to explore words using “Structured Word Inquiry” is to ask students to brainstorm possible relatives of a word to be investigated. For example,