“There’s an entire universe in every single tweet, and it all really depends on the content as far as how it’s going to spread” – Jack Dorsey, creator of Twitter I found within our first nine weeks that my students are extremely loyal individuals. After we read Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, my students started … Continue reading
“Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.” – Jane Yolen The time has come to formally take aim toward a writing skill. Our first target? Using … Continue reading
“Lack of academic language and especially academic vocabulary has been described as a lexical bar, one that blocks the progress of a large number of students” – D.J. Corson I hate to get all formal on a blog because A) I don’t enjoy writing formal papers and B) as quoted by my students, “I am … Continue reading
“There is creative reading as well as creative writing” – Ralph Waldo Emerson By the end of the 3rd grade / end of the 4th grade students should be reading to learn, not learning to read. But there are still going to be those students that need extra support in decoding words. For those students, … Continue reading
“I find that because of modern technological evolution and our global economy, and as a result of the great increase in population, our world has greatly changed: it has become much smaller. However, our perceptions have not evolved at the same pace; we continue to cling to old national demarcations and the old feelings of … Continue reading
