I recently updated my Guided Reading Binder and wanted (and desperately needed) a new guided reading form to keep more organized and teacher-friendly reading notes. I found that keeping individual papers for each student on each book was too tedious and took up too much paper/time. To help, I made a new guided reading template which I have been using to take daily guided ... Read More
6 Traits Writing Board and Writing Mini-Lesson Checklist
Need a way to remind your students of all of the writing strategies you have taught them? This post shares how I organize my writing mini-lessons and display them for my students using a dedicated bulletin board. To help you come up with mini-lessons, I also include the writing checklist I use for free. About the 6 Traits Writing Board For the past two years, I have ... Read More
Classroom Pictures 2011-12
I'm so excited to share my classroom pictures with you. This is my third classroom that I taught in last year. I love these pictures because this was in that era before Pinterest and before TeacherspayTeachers. I don't remember feeling stress when I set my room up for it to be as beautiful as the all the rooms you see on Pinterest because I was blissfully unaware. I just ... Read More
