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Plan engaging library lessons for your K-2 classes by creating a routine, adding variety, including music and movement, and have fun!
Don't let a short schedule keep you from providing engaging library programming. These 30-minute library lessons are perfect for librarians!
Unlock Reading Magic: Dive into animated shorts and task cards for captivating main idea and details lessons! 📚🎬
Many commonly taught teaching strategies mignt not work for librarians. Here are my tips and strategies for librarian classroom management.
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Next week marks the start of National Library Week!
Being a brand new school librarian is both exciting and scary. All summer, you’ve planned for your new position, but today, you're feeling pretty lost.
Your library bulletin boards can be a powerful tool for your elementary students, staff, and the entire school community.
Looking to implement library centers in your school library? Discover library center ideas and tips from a certified school librarian.
Here’s a few classroom procedures that have worked well for me – and a couple awesome ideas I’ve run across since I’ve stepped out of the classroom...
Yes, it has it's own board on my Pinterest account. I used to be embarrassed by how fascinated and excited I was about classroom libraries. I paroused thrift stores, hit up retiring teachers, and planned my weekends around library book sales for months leading up to my first year in the classroom. By the time
Exposing students to a wide variety of genres is so important to creating lifelong readers. It helps students begin to identify who they are as readers, including their likes and dislikes. By building genre background
Plan engaging library lessons for your K-2 classes by creating a routine, adding variety, including music and movement, and have fun!
Teaching a virtual kindergarten class? Here are some management tips that worked for us, and a Google Meet freebie! 1. Our initial communication with Teaching a virtual kindergarten class? Management tips that worked for us, and a Google Meet freebie! #kindergarten #distancelearning #earlylearning #earlychildhoodeducation #GoogleMeet #kindergartenteacher
Teach your students to stop tattling with the 5 B's classroom management system.
So absolutely no judgment for teachers who use paint chips for lessons because #itsforthekids , but if you are like me and feel a little sheepish stuffing 100 of these into your bag at the hardware store, I have a solution for you! First, here are my favorite paint chip poetry lesson plans: Paint Name Haiku- Paint names ... Read More about Paint Chip Poetry Without the Guilt + Literary Paint Names
Teaching blackout poetry is an engaging way to help spruce up your poetry unit. Show a few examples, and your students will be eager to create a blackout masterpiece of their own. Keep reading to learn what blackout poetry is and just what you need to do to teach it. So, you’re thinking about teaching… Read More »A Beginner’s Guide To Teaching Blackout Poetry
Find fantastic resources for teaching inferences (with free mini lesson). The resources are ideal for 4th graders but also features ideas for grades 1-3.
I have been creating tons of adapted books this year! Some of them I have written myself, such as my environmental print Fast Food book or the Shark Hygiene book. Other books I have taken apart, added symbols from Writing with Symbols or Board Maker, laminated, and added adapted pieces. I love making book interactive as it checks for comprehension and gives the student a clearer purpose for each page.
As we approach Winter Break, I realized I haven't written many blog articles lately. I moved to a new city and started in a new-to-me library this year. I've been too busy to do much blog writing beyond my infamous New Releases posts and a couple of random book reviews. I'm about 10 book reviews behind, and they may never get written at this point. It's been an exhausting few months, but Winter Break looms large and lovely on the horizon...only one more week to go!
What teacher doesn’t want to save themselves time and teach better? It’s finding those low-prep, high-return activities that we can use right away that
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Hi, all! Long time, no blog. This quarter has been a crazy one full of extra-curricular activities, illness, and big decisions. I’m back today though because I COULD NOT WAIT to share with you about our classroom poetry café! We’ve been planning this for weeks… My students worked extremely hard all ... Read More about Classroom Poetry Slam
Looking for special education activities for your school library? Download the two PDF files below. There are several special education activities you can modify for use with your students. File #1 File #2 You can find those resources along with hundreds of others in the Elementary Librarian Community. Click here to learn more!
Becoming a successful librarian can be arduous. Fortunately, here are several examples of SMART goals for librarians.
Teaching photosynthesis in upper elementary science does not have to be boring. Check out this idea on role playing how photosynthesis works!
I've wanted to try out book speed dating for awhile now, and I finally went for it last week. Here's how I did it and why I'll do it again.
A HUGE collection of back to school free resources just for school librarians! These free resources can help make the transition back just a bit easier!
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Evaluating websites iPad activity.
Back to School Activities and I am even sharing a first day FREEBIE from the story No! David or David Goes to School by David Shannon.
Learn how to use Pear Deck with Google Slides and keep your students engaged. It's a dynamic, free add-on you can easily install and start using right away!
Using Google Drawings to create graphic organizers can help students gather their thoughts and customize to their needs.Sometimes, we just need some help
Making connections is a strategy that readers use to better understand the text they are reading. It's one of the most powerful strategies your readers have in their tool belts. Readers use their prior knowledge to make a text to self, text to text, or text to world connection to what they are reading. I have put together some lessons and activities for the elementary classroom that can be helpful in teaching this valuable reading strategy. The first thing you want to do is make sure students have a basic understanding of the word connection. You can start with this simple opening activity. Put four of the provided cards into a bag. Pull them out and show them to students. Ask them what the connection is between the objects in the bag. Have a conversation about how they are connected. Then talk about any connections they have to those objects. It's a very basic way of discussing what connections are. You can then relate that to making connections in a book. I included five sets of cards that you could use each day of the week or you could split the students into groups and have them discuss connections with their groups. I would model describing the connection on the card above, because students will have to describe their connections in writing during the unit. You could laminate this to use again. The posters I included cover the three different types of connections that readers can make. For the anchor chart, I also included sentence frames for students to refer to throughout the unit when describing their connections. Text to Self Connection Craft I would explicitly teach one type of connection each day at first. You can uses these crafts for students to record their connections each day. Lots of modeling will probably be needed. Text to Text Connection Craft Text to World Connection Craft Once students have learned the different types of connections, you can go into making them understand that you can make different types of connections within one text. Give each student the 3 strips for the different types of connections they can make to a text. You can then make them into a chain connecting these cards to the name of the text you read. Close your lesson by summarizing the connections made on the cards above. This is a great visual for students to understand how making connections works. I always like for my students to have these little hats to wear while practicing the strategy. They also can get these bookmarks and badges. Always use some sort of exit ticket to close your lesson. This is where you will get an additional assessment to guide your instruction for the next day, as well as your small strategy groups. I like to always include additional graphic organizers for additional lessons on making connections, as well as for small groups and centers. I made them for the three different types of connections. You can use these case files for your whole group lessons or during small group teacher table. After you have taught how these work, these are great for a literacy center! Finally, a fun Friday activity we love to do are Brown Bag Book Clubs! You fill the bag with popcorn and have students fill out the graphic organizer over a read aloud. They then get into groups to discuss their connections with their book club, as well as to review other strategies previously learned. I hope these making connections activities are helpful for your readers! You can find it HERE or by clicking any of the images in this post. If you own the Reading Comprehension Bundle, it has been added there, too, so be sure to download it in your My Purchases tab. Happy reading!
