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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

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

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

Activate Prior Learning with a RAN Chart

February 14, 2022 Jessica Rogers

activate prior knowledge with reading and analyzing nonfiction

What is a RAN chart? For me, the RAN chart is the answer to “But the KWL chart doesn’t work in my class!” RAN stands for Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction (credit: Tony Stead). I have always struggled with the KWL chart for a few reasons. I like the concept, but when I asked the students […]

Filed Under: Blog, metacognition, Nonfiction, Research, Schema

Critical Analysis of a Poem in Middle School

March 26, 2020 Jessica Rogers

Most middle school students are not thrilled to learn that they will be analyzing one poem over three days.

Filed Under: Accountability, Blog, Critical Thinking, Figurative Language, Making Connections, metacognition, Poetry, Schema, Tone and Mood, Visualization

Guest Post: Mind Mapping with Signposts (Readers’ Workshop)

April 28, 2017 Jessica Rogers

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” […]

Filed Under: Balancing Literacy Instruction, Blog, metacognition, Readers' Workshop, Reading Strategies, Teacher Qualities

Instructional Coaching: Modeling a Think-Aloud

March 21, 2016 Jessica Rogers

** 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 […]

Filed Under: Blog, Critical Thinking, Instructional Coaching, Making inferences and predicting, metacognition, Readers' Workshop, Reading Strategies, Schema

Balancing Literacy Instruction. Part Two: Explicit Instruction VS Implicit Instruction

January 31, 2016 Jessica Rogers

Welcome to Part Two of my series on balancing literacy instruction! While I’m a huge fan of explicit instruction, the benefits of implicit instruction are also great. What’s a teacher to do?? Just joining us? Make sure you check out the first post in this series: Challenging Text VS Instructional Level Text Part Two: Explicit Instruction VS […]

Filed Under: Balancing Literacy Instruction, Blog, metacognition, Readers' Workshop

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