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Stop Skimming the Surface: Teaching Prepositional Phrases That Actually Stick

May 1, 2025 Jessica Rogers

teaching prepositional phrases

📌 “Getting students to add details is like pulling teeth!” Sound familiar? You’re not alone. Many teachers find themselves begging students to add more, but what they get is a random adjective here, an unnecessary adverb there, and not much else. Here’s the thing: if we want students to write with detail and clarity, we […]

Filed Under: Blog, Descriptive Writing, Lesson Planning, Mini-Lessons, Parts of Speech, Vocabulary

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

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

Unlocking the Power of Connectives: Practical Tips for Upper Elementary and Middle School Classrooms

July 24, 2024 Jessica Rogers

Unlocking the Power of Connectives

As students advance through upper elementary and middle school, they encounter increasingly complex texts. One key to navigating these texts is understanding connectives—those magical words and phrases that link ideas together and clarify relationships. The research underscores the importance of teaching connectives to enhance comprehension and academic success. But how do we make this instruction […]

Filed Under: Blog, Critical Thinking, Language Comprehension, Lesson Planning, Vocabulary

Boosting Classroom Engagement with Text Sets

June 26, 2024 Jessica Rogers

Boosting Classroom Engagement with Text Sets

Using text sets in the classroom can significantly enhance student interest, vocabulary, and background knowledge. Text sets are collections of related texts organized around a specific topic or line of inquiry. Here’s how to effectively implement them in your teaching strategy: 1. Anchor Text Begin with a rich, complex grade-level text as the anchor. This […]

Filed Under: Blog, Language Comprehension, Lesson Planning, Schema, Science of Reading, Teaching Structures, Vocabulary

Embracing the Future: ChatGPT is Here to Stay

March 7, 2023 Jessica Rogers

Embracing the Future: ChatGPT is Here to Stay

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly developing technology that has the potential to revolutionize the way we learn and work. However, as with any new technology, it can also create some conflicts in schools. While AI has been around for a while, it has never been fantastic – until now with ChatGPT. It is scary […]

Filed Under: Blog, Conferencing, Editing and Revising, Revising and Editing, Technology, Vocabulary, Writers' Workshop

Writers’ Workshop: Show Don’t Tell

April 1, 2021 Jessica Rogers

Every elementary Writers’ Workshop teacher has a go-to “Show, Don’t Tell” lesson in which students learn how to show or illustrate what is happening, instead of merely stating it. But do we ever have enough? Do the students ever master this highly important writing skill?? Exactly! So here is another lesson to add to your […]

Filed Under: Blog, Characterization, Descriptive Writing, Mini-Lessons, Personal Narrative, Strategies/Craft, Vocabulary, Writers' Workshop

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