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Active Reading, Dynamic Conversations, and Powerful Writing Strategies

October 12, 2024 Jessica Rogers

Active Reading, Dynamic Conversations, and Powerful Writing

Middle schoolers don’t often come to class eager to discuss global warming, but when you hand them a vivid image and ask them, “What’s going on in this picture?”—well, you just might surprise yourself. Recently, I had the chance to work with an incredible group of middle school students, most of whom are second-language learners. […]

Filed Under: Accountability, Blog, Critical Thinking, Independent Reading, Instructional Coaching, Lesson Planning, Main Idea, metacognition, Science of Reading, Vocabulary

Lesson Plan: A Close Read of The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

August 14, 2024 Jessica Rogers

Lesson Plan: A Close Read of The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

A lesson plan outline to teach close reading of The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin.

Filed Under: Author's Purpose, Blog, Characterization, Close Reading, Critical Thinking, Instructional Coaching, Main Idea, Making Connections, Making inferences and predicting, Plot, Theme, Vocabulary, Writing Response

Transforming Reading Comprehension with Annotation Cue Cards: A Step-by-Step Guide for Teachers

August 7, 2024 Jessica Rogers

Transforming Reading Comprehension with Annotation Cue Cards: A Step-by-Step Guide for Teachers

Ever had your students annotate a text only to get a half-hearted effort and the inevitable, “Is this enough, Miss?” It’s a common challenge in classrooms, but don’t despair! Here’s how I turned this around with annotation cue cards, and how you can too. The Challenge: Superficial Annotations In an 8th-grade class I was working […]

Filed Under: Accountability, Author's Purpose, Blog, Characterization, Close Reading, Critical Thinking, Making Connections, metacognition, Plot, Tone and Mood

A Close Reading Lesson for Stronger Reading Comprehension

July 31, 2024 Jessica Rogers

close reading lesson. Child reading carefully

Starting the school year with a focus on kindness and the power of words sets the stage for a compassionate and thoughtful classroom environment. In my recent lesson with a fifth-grade class, we delved into the story “Feathers” through a close reading, weaving in lessons on vocabulary, comprehension, and the profound impact of our words. […]

Filed Under: Author's Purpose, Blog, Close Reading, Critical Thinking, Lesson Planning, Main Idea, Making Connections, Personal Narrative, Plot, Vocabulary

Retain New Information Longer

October 25, 2022 Jessica Rogers

retain new information longer

Teaching for Understanding “If I had a nickel …” is the overused phrase I fight the temptation to say out loud when teachers tell me that they just taught something and their students don’t remember. What actually comes out is usually along the lines of “don’t take it personally. Your students are not out to […]

Filed Under: Blog, Editing and Revising, Main Idea, metacognition, Readers' Workshop

Guided Reading where Everyone Reads

March 30, 2022 Jessica Rogers

everyone reads in guided reading

Why every student should read their own book The number one reason that Guided Reading is a successful way to boost students’ independent reading levels is because each student is reading and rereading the bulk of the time. If they are waiting for their turn to read, we’ve lost all that time they could have […]

Filed Under: Blog, Guided Reading

Reading Strategy: Find the Main Idea

September 30, 2021 Jessica Rogers

Importance The main idea is the central, or most important, idea in a paragraph or passage. Arguably, being able to identify the main idea is the most important skill for students when reading nonfiction, but it doesn’t stop there! Finding the main idea is only the first step in summarizing a text, and so being […]

Filed Under: Blog, Main Idea, Readers' Workshop, Reading Strategies

Prepping for Workshop Model: Classroom Design

August 5, 2021 Jessica Rogers

For me, the weeks leading up to an in-service week are the most exciting and the most overwhelming. I am eager to meet my students and make my classroom come alive, but I also know there’s a lot of “boring” work I should be creating as well. For a Workshop Model classroom, there is quite […]

Filed Under: Back to School, Blog, Readers' Workshop, Writers' Workshop

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