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Reading Mentor Texts

October 3, 2015 By Ashleigh 8 Comments

I love books. I love fiction books, nonfiction books, chapter books, and picture books. That's one of the reasons I love incorporating mentor texts into my reading and writing workshop lessons. I use mentor texts to model thinking strategies, as examples of quality writing, to

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Teaching Phonics In Upper Elementary

September 13, 2015 By Ashleigh Leave a Comment

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 to create a guided reading group whose emphasis is phonics {and sight words if

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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

July 12, 2015 By Ashleigh 1 Comment

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 lessons are essential for a smooth school year. I've tried to skip some of these

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5 Ways to Improve Reading Fluency

April 21, 2015 By Ashleigh 2 Comments

Reading fluency is an incredibly 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 what they read, rather than

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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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Visual Pacing Guide

July 11, 2013 By Ashleigh 12 Comments

There is something about planning for a new school year that I absolutely love.  As in I really love planning and obsess over it all of the time.  I feel a little nervous this year, because I haven't been able to get into my classroom yet.  I am impatiently waiting on the "all

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Activities For Teaching Verbs

July 9, 2013 By Ashleigh 1 Comment

I'll be the first to admit that teaching grammar 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. Despite

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Narrative Writing

June 17, 2013 By Ashleigh 3 Comments

Narrative writing is probably my favorite writing genre to teach, and it's by far my favorite genre to read-both mentor texts and student writing. It's also a great way to get to know students on a deeper level. However, personal narratives aren't always easy for students to

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Writing Workshop Guide – Freebie

June 2, 2013 By Ashleigh 3 Comments

I will be the first to admit that my first year teaching I had no clue how to teach writing! I knew how I learned writing as a student, but I didn't know how to teach it so that all of my students could become good writers. I made writing instruction my professional development

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