A few weeks ago I shared a week of emergent literacy planning on the topic of greetings, using a book I wrote called “Hello”. As I’ve mentioned before, I had a request from the fabulous Violeta for a PowerPoint version that she could translate into Dutch. Not only has she translated it but she has
Portable word walls are an important part of our toolkit when working with transitional and conventional literacy learners. I’ve written a number of posts about how to setup a word wall and how we use them – in both the working with words block and in writing. After my recent post about Using the Word
For conventional (and transitional) students, we need to make sure they can write words which aren’t phonetically predictable – and that they can read and write high frequency words more or less instantly. The word wall activities we do in the working with words block are aimed at converting high frequency words and word family
After my recent visit to Durham Road School, the awesome Mary-Louise Bertram suggested that I share this book. She thought some of you might enjoy it as much as she did – or maybe it was her students and staff who enjoyed it……. And so I present – “I don’t like Farts!”. Please download it
Zombies and Independent Reading
Over the last few years, I have come across a bunch of students who are highly motivated and interested in anything to do with Zombies! Now, Zombies are not something I know a lot about… but what I do know is that providing independent and/or shared reading choices in a student’s area(s) of interest is
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