Assignments… My Favorite Book 4 Nov 20151 Dec 2015 My Book Club is made of eighth grade Reading Intervention students who really struggle with reading. One of my girls told me, point blank on the first day, "I don't…
Assignments… Making Connections 3 Nov 20151 Dec 2015 Today's (and this week's) Book Club topic is making connections, specifically making a Text-to-Self connection. To help my students understand this, I created a presentation and notes sheet.Continue reading "Making…
Book Club… Intro to Making Connections 2 Nov 20151 Dec 2015 Today was my first day with my Book Club students, so to get to know them (there's only five!) and to introduce the topic we'd be covering in the first…
Differentiation / Accommodations… Poverty Training 28 Oct 201529 Oct 2015 Today our Professional Development was held in the high school auditorium, bringing both middle and high school together for a presentation and mini-training on poverty. Continue reading "Poverty Training"
Differentiation / Accommodations… Peer Reading 12 Oct 201519 Oct 2015 Okay, I thought. We'll see how this goes. I stood at the front of the class. "Today we're going to finish the book. I'd like you to find a partner of your…
Differentiation / Accommodations… Seeing Through My Students’ Eyes 10 Oct 201519 Oct 2015 In my sophomore Honors English class, I assigned a pop quiz over chapters 3 and 4 in To Kill a Mockingbird. As I went to grade the quizzes, I saw that one…
