It is time for me to start sharing some wonderful activities I have run during the past few weeks. In the last three weeks, I have taught Y...

Like I mentioned previously, I really wanted to start finding great texts to use for teaching different skills in reading. In my post about...

I begin my unit on comparing and contrasting in reading on Monday. Below is my "Comparing and Contrasting" anchor chart. Fingers ...

Every time I teach a new strategy/topic in reading, I try to find texts that work directly with that topic to use in my whole class focus. W...

As our school uses a fluid grouping structure, my reading class is full of PSD (funded) students, EAL students and low academically a...

The school that I work at runs fluid groupings for reading and maths, and we have now just started it for writing (I will keep you posted...

I have been horrible at posting lately as school has got the best of me. But, I promise to make an effort to post more regularly, since we ...

This has always been a struggle for me and I know for many other teachers: What texts do you give to students in your class who need ex...

SWBST as referred to by my students. One of the first summarising strategies on our success criteria. Take any narrative and have stude...

A wonderful idea shown to me by my teaching and learning coach Mrs Kenely. Please check out her blog...she is fabulous! For my unit on...

I've posted before about One Dollar Sentences and how much I love that strategy for almost any subject area or topic. Today we did ...

A short one but a good one! I learnt about this while I was in teacher's college as a strategy to help students explain an idea/con...

I learnt about this activity in a PD I went to on teaching EAL (English as an Additional Language) students. It is called possible sentence...

This is an EAL (English as an Additional Language) strategy that I learnt about at a PD by Margery Hertzberg. The name of this activity is ...

This is a book I just finished reading to my class and they absolutely loved. It is a Morris Gleitzman book so it included lots of humour...

I've been focusing on questioning in reading and an activity that I found really useful and students love is called "Hot Seat...

It has taken me a while to organise my reading group in a way that runs smoothly and I think I have finally sorted it out. At the beginning...