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Given our connection to Literacyhead, it’s no surprise that we are partial to books that either use visual art to teach content or are simply about art. This has been a pleasantly surprising theme running through the Lerner books with which we are working. We describe three highlights, below, all of which are written by [...]
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As we mentioned last week, we are working with Lerner Publisher to help them reorganize their catalog. We are also aligning their books to the Common Core State Standards. When we received ALL the Lerner books (about 1200 titles) we were quite excited by the quality. We were originally concerned that we would be trying [...]
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Despite writing about balancing students’ reading diets, I have recently come to terms with the imbalance in my own reading life. While I read constantly and collect books like a mad woman hoarding canned goods for the end of the world, I read nonfiction almost exclusively. On a given day you will find 2-5 in-progress [...]
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Monday The Query of Summer Readers: To Read or Not to Read In this post, we remind teachers to carve out time to talk about books as the school year draws to a close to inspire children to read over the summer. Tuesday Honing the Reading Radar with the Power of Suggestion In this post, [...]
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Yesterday’s Thursday Thoughts have become today’s Friday Favorites, as the pseudo-summer schedule has thrown our internal clocks off. Time feels a little loose and, despite being busy with tasks, we are beginning to run into the summer luxury of occasionally forgetting what day it is. This week we have written about independent reading, both that [...]
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As this school year winds down, I feel myself slowly exhaling as I downshift into a less frenetic pace. I am very much looking forward to lazy days at the beach when I can poke around in some of the books that have accumulated on my night stand. I find that I have two categories [...]
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As summer vacation beckons, we have been thinking a lot about summer reading. In yesterday’s post, we mentioned the importance of continuing to share book blurbs and excerpts of books that might pique children’s interest and increase the likelihood that they will read over the summer. As we think about “salting” readers, we also turn our [...]
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The end of the school year signals different things to different people, but if you’re at all like us, you might be thinking about the progress your students have made as readers and worried about what will happen to their good reading habits once you release them from your care. Your hope is that those [...]
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Monday May Favorites In this post, we re-share the most popular blogs posted on Burkins and Yaris during the month of May 2013. Tuesday Educational Innovation: Pushing Ourselves to Go “Above and Beyond” In this post, we share Peter Reynolds’s video “Above and Beyond” to inspire teachers to think more deeply about their beliefs about [...]
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In this week’s posts, we introduced you to Maya and Charlie from Peter Reynold’s short film Above and Beyond. Thinking about these two characters set us about thinking about many things, one of which involves how we partner and pair students. Traditionally, partnering students happens in one of three different ways: 1. The teacher [...]
Reading Lessons Using art to understand stories
Writing Lessons Literacy lessons using images
High-frequency Word Lessons Images to help remember high-frequency words
Letter and Sound Lessons Images for teaching letters and sounds
Comprehension Lessons Comprehension strategy lessons using visual art
Practice "Tests" Art as text for test preparation
Vocabulary Lessons Images for teaching words
Writing Prompts Images to give writers ideas
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