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Thursday Throw Down: Interactive Time Management and Planning for Students

Happy Snow Day! Today I'm linking up with Erin from I'mLovinLit for her ways to make learning more interactive Thursday Throwdown. Check it out here: imlovinlit.blogspot.com Now my interactive idea begins with a mini-story: Each month, I have my students help me switch out numbers and little notices on our calendar. So as my students were stripping November and putting up jolly snowmen, I had a moment of sheer panic! We had just begun our first class novel ( From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler) and I realized that December contained way less school days for us than I had thought. Yikes! (I would never want to have to finish a book AFTER break.) After that initial panic-stricken moment, I did some strategizing and thus my " interactive-goal-setting-and-tracking-reading plan " evolved! Now trust me, I know that this is nothing fancy, but it worked! A few minutes (and a few pieces of masking tape) down,and my next

Nonfiction in the ELA Class

Me Before the Common Core Standards... Literature Major/Reading Teacher + Nonfiction = Bleh! I'll stick to my stories! Me Last Year... Reading Teacher + Needing to start teaching Nonfiction= Umm okay, I'll spend a week on it. Me This Year... Reading Teacher + I'm Lovin Lit's Interactive Notebook products + NewsELA = acceptance! Me Last Week... REALLY wishing I had a Smartboard!!! (Yup I have a blue chalkboard. And yes my class plays "make believe" while we pretend the chalkboard is a Smartboard.) Well it has been a few weeks and my students are progressing with annotating text! They have totally accepted the "No Highlighter" rule and are using text marks to annotate their reading. They know how to find the topic sentence and details thanks to Erin's (i'mlovinlit@ blogspot.com) interactive notes. So far, so good. The main problem I have come to thus far is that students are reluctant to write on their reading. (Not

First Post! (Back to School ramblings)

So this is my very first blog post! I have found so many teaching blogs with such creative ideas via Pinterest this summer and became inspired to create my very own. Be patient please, because I’m still so new to this whole world of blogging. I am a middle school teacher that wears many hats! I teach Special Education and spend part of my day assisting students in mainstream classes. I also teach English/Language Arts classes. I went to school for English and so this subject is my true passion, however I am enjoying working to help students succeed when mainstreamed. It’s also fun to observe other teachers and how they teach…as classroom teachers, how often do any of us get to do this??? This summer has been an exciting one. My little classroom that had disgustingly old carpets last year has now transitioned to so-sparkling-clean-you-could-eat-off-them tile floors. It is amazing what new floors can do! I only have one window in the room, which causes it to feel ca

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