** Contact me if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to come to your campus with engaging, evidence-based, and practical professional development ** Over the past five years or so, there has been a big emphasis on using media in the classroom. If you scour Pinterest for ideas on making inferences, you will find tons of pictures […]
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Teaching and Loving Folktales, Fables, and Legends
** Contact us if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to come to your campus with engaging, evidence-based, and practical professional development ** I started off this year with teaching folktales, fables, and legends. Eventually, we will get into myths and fairy tales, but not quite yet. Every time it’s time to teach this traditional literature, […]
Guest Post: Mind Mapping with Signposts (Readers’ Workshop)
Guest post by Julia Swanner, Baylor University Intern, and Liz Hagins, Midway ISD Teacher The preface: In our PreAP 8th grade English class, my mentor teacher and I were noticing a severe lack of enthusiasm for reading expository writing, specifically breaking down passages to get to the core of them. We implemented Kylene Beers’s nonfiction “signposts” […]
Readers’ Workshop: Independent Reading Ideas
** Contact us if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to bring an engaging, hands-on Readers’ Workshop or Guided Reading session to your campus ** One thing we all know as reading teachers is that students need time to read. Students must be practicing the act of reading consistently, with things they want to read, […]
Student Reading Ability is More than a Level
** Contact us if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to come to your campus with engaging, evidence-based, and practical professional development ** Disclaimer before you begin reading this post: I am not anti-leveling students. Assessing students, with any program, and getting a ballpark idea of their reading level is a great starting point. I do firmly believe, however, […]
Instructional Coaching: Modeling a Think-Aloud
** Contact us if you would like to have modeled lessons or workshop-style sessions come to your campus! ** Last month I had the pleasure of modeling a think-aloud in third grade. I was asked to model the process of sharing with students the reading strategies I am using as well as the Gradual Release of […]
Instructional Coaching: Guided Reading
** Contact us if you would like to have Guided Reading modeled or a workshop-style session come to your campus! ** Last month I was asked to model a Guided Reading lesson in second grade. I was told the students’ instructional level was L, mostly because of comprehension. For the model lesson I wanted to highlight four […]
Balancing Literacy Instruction. Part Three: Fiction VS Nonfiction
Welcome to Part Three of my series on balancing literacy instruction! Is fiction or nonfiction more important for students? (We’ll save the non-fiction or nonfiction argument for another time…) Just joining us? Make sure you check out the first two posts in this series: Challenging Text VS Instructional Level Text and Explicit Instruction VS Implicit Instruction Part Three: Fiction VS Nonfiction If you […]