We're working on units for next year, and I'm trying to find good books for fifth grade for the end of the year. Pretty much every book I've...
I have four classes I teach a day, and each is different. First/second I have an enthusiastic group of eighth graders...third/fourth I have...
Many of my students are Pentecostal -- they even skip school to pray on Halloween because of the all the demons (this is how a student explained...
Have you tried talking to the students? My students always try to say people are racist, but what they mean is, "I feel that I am being treated...
What did your administration say about this?
It is not even passion that is missing. I am a reading specialist. I was hired to work with middle school students in small groups, as they...
I'm starting writing workshop with seventh graders next week...I plan to start by spending about 45 minutes a day on it, and then in the future...
Just wanted to tell everyone that the kids are absolutely loving this unit! We've read the myths in a book that was used in high school last...
O Brother Where Art Thou might be great for a wrap-up...but the kids are pretty young! I just took the first two stanzas of the first book of the...
I am co-teaching a class of 7th graders this year, and we must teach excerpts from the Iliad and the Odyssey. We've started by reading about...
Let's be honest here...you do not have to be smart to be a teacher. I am smart. I use "big" vocabulary words. Other teachers often say things...
Some teacher along the way told him to just mumble nonsense if he didn't know a word...so now that's what he does. I have been concentrating on...
So what I usually do with him is sound cards (he is about 95% accurate with these -- stumbles on /ch/, /ph/, and sometimes on the vowels), then we...
I work with a student who is basically an emergent decoder, though his comprehension skills are excellent. In fact, he tested on grade level for...
Hey all. I work with some seventh graders who are reading far below grade level -- they are basically emerging readers. I use a great phonics...
Professional development should be done on a teacher's own time. The school should require teachers to complete x amount of hours of PD a year,...
BA from Bryn Mawr College in history MSEd from the University of Pennsylvania - Reading, Writing, and Literacy program I'm currently taking...
They are told not to correct each other because they are so rude about it. He is in a group of other struggling readers. I asked them all if it...
Can we define a set of skills we think students should master at the end of each grade? If we can define that, then we can have national tests...
I am no longer in Philadelphia -- I am in Central PA now, at an urban school with a high population of hispanic kids. My kids in Philly weren't...
