Forest City Middle School… Emails Home 18 Nov 201518 Nov 2015 Communication with parents is huge, and when one of my eighth graders was gone for a week, I made sure to get involved with not only him, but his parents…
Book Club… Text-to-World Connections 18 Nov 20151 Dec 2015 As my Book Club students grasped text-to-self connections, it was time to move to text-to-world. To help them understand this, I created a PowerPoint/Google Presentation and walked through it with…
Assignments… Connecting to Novel Characters 18 Nov 20151 Dec 2015 Making connections while reading is hard! That's why I created this resource to help not only my struggling readers in Book Club, but for for any struggling reader or young…
Classroom Prep/Set-Up… Learning Targets & Lesson Planning 17 Nov 201518 Nov 2015 At the start of every week, I post our plan and learning targets. Sometimes these targets even change daily! This is a simple way I plan for my classes, keep…
8th Grade Reading… “Louie, His Cousin and His Other Cousin” – Report Writing 17 Nov 20151 Dec 2015 Today my eighth graders read "Louie, His Cousin, and His Other Cousin." In this vignette, we're introduced to a family of cousins that live on Esperanza's block (one of which…
8th Grade Reading… My Grading Process 17 Nov 201518 Nov 2015 Standards-Based Grading can be crazy, but it's something been completely thrown into and have to accept :) It's not so bad on the teacher end once you get started with…
