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Phonics Activities For Big Kids

September 13, 2015 by Ashleigh | Leave a Comment

Phonics activities are not just for young students-they're for older students too. Every year I have a couple students who need a little {sometimes a lot} of extra work on phonics. This can be quite a challenge, because that isn't something I teach in a whole group lesson. I like

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Reading Workshop and Literacy Stations

July 28, 2015 by Ashleigh | 9 Comments

I don't always include literacy stations in reading workshop, but when I do, I make the activities purposeful and authentic. Anyone catch the reference? In the spirit of full disclosure, there are years when due to scheduling requirements I can't fit in literacy stations. Those

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Introducing Paragraphs and Writing Instruction

Introducing Paragraphs

July 12, 2015 by Ashleigh | 1 Comment

Introducing paragraphs is never easy, especially at the beginning of the year. I always struggle at the beginning of the year with determining how long to spend teaching rules, procedures, and various classroom management lessons. I absolutely believe that these management

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Reading For Fluency Strategies

April 21, 2015 by Ashleigh | 2 Comments

Upper elementary teachers know that reading for fluency is an important component of reading instruction. Fluency is the ability to read a text accurately, quickly, with proper phrasing, and with expression. It is important for readers, because it allows students to comprehend

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Visual Pacing Guide: Language Arts

July 12, 2013 by Ashleigh | 12 Comments

I've got my visual pacing guide for language arts ready, and I hope you're not disappointed!  You'll see that there are quite a few missing units in this pacing guide, and that's because they're still a work in progress.  I've been working like crazy all summer, but these big

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Verb Worksheets & Activities

July 9, 2013 by Ashleigh | 6 Comments

I'll be the first to admit that teaching about verbs was never appealing to me. I have memories learning about AND teaching parts of speech where my eyes were completely glazed over. I thought that it was almost, if not, impossible to make parts of speech fun and meaningful. This

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Narrative Writing

Narrative Writing Lessons

June 17, 2013 by Ashleigh | 3 Comments

When teaching upper elementary, narrative writing is probably my favorite writing genre, and it's by far my favorite genre to read-both mentor texts and student writing. Plus, narrative writing lessons are so much fun to teach. It's also a great way to get to know students on a

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Teaching Writing

June 2, 2013 by Ashleigh | 3 Comments

When I started teaching, I had no clue how to teach writing! In fact, I could barely remember receiving any writing instruction as a child! Those first few years, I made writing instruction the focus of my professional development. I soon found that writing workshop was my

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Summer Literacy Activities

May 7, 2013 by Ashleigh | 3 Comments

As summer break quickly {but not quickly enough} approaches, I've wanted to find engaging and creative ways to enrich and review our reading and writing standards. I also wanted to squeeze in a few fun, but easy, art projects, because we've worked hard all year and deserve a

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Language Arts Assessments

December 4, 2012 by Ashleigh | 6 Comments

After I made my Common Core Math Assessments, I had many requests for a similar language arts assessment version.  After months of work, I'm thrilled to announce that I finally finished them and let me just way "Whew!"  That was a big project-much, MUCH bigger than I expected!

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