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Eureka! Using Complementary Texts to Lead to Insight
In our post Solving Education’s Greatest Challenges: Unconventional Collaborations, we shared our fascination with nineteenth century French obstetrician, Stephane Tarnier, who found himself wandering...
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The Great Irony of Teaching
Recently, we visited a kindergarten classroom to share one of Mo Willems’s Elephant and Piggie books titled Are You Ready to Play Outside? As we read aloud, we asked the students to pay careful...
View ArticleAligning Instruction in Music, Art, and PE with the CCSS
When the Common Core State Standards were first introduced, the rollout was accompanied by six instructional shifts. The second shift, “knowledge in the disciplines, ” popularized the idea that all...
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Our Top Eleven Nonfiction Books for Teaching…EVERYTHING!
On Monday, we shared and celebrated the fiction books that serve to support our literacy instruction in just about every way imaginable. However, it can’t be all fiction all of the time, so of course...
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Our Top Ten NARRATIVE Nonfiction Books for Teaching . . . EVERYTHING!
We are just back from the International Reading Association Conference in New Orleans and feeling energized and ready to continue our top picks for teaching EVERYTHING series. So far, we’ve shared ten...
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No News is Good News
In February, Kim went on a twelve day trip to Israel. Over the course of those twelve days, she took two, ten hour plane rides and stayed in three different elevations which meant that packing was...
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Bike Helmet Ideas
On Father’s Day morning, Kim decided to go for a bicycle ride. As a cycling enthusiast, this decision was not out of the ordinary for her. She tries to fit in a fifteen mile ride most days of the...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Essence of a Close Read
Last year, as the Common Core state standards were implemented in full-force by schools across the country, “close reading” of “complex text” became the focus of many educators. In fact, as teachers...
View ArticleCollaborative Writing (Part 1): A Co-Labor of Love
For the last couple of years, we have connected with Fran Haley, a K-12 ELA educator and literacy coach at a Title I school in North Carolina, via Twitter and some in-person conversations at PD we have...
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Guiding Reading with Great Books
We are constantly on the look out for beginning reading material that gives young readers substantial work with meaning. Unfortunately, too many of the beginning reading texts available offer minimal...
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