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21 May 2024
Amazing work, first grade!!!
21 May 2024
I am so proud of these 1st graders for quickly learning how to use the @BookCreatorApp ! #dg58pride
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1 May 2024
Amazing growth by all the writers in Downers Grove. Way to go!!
30 Apr 2024
Loved displaying our students’ writing during Open House! I am so proud of the growth I have seen this year! Way to go Bobcats! #dg58pride #dg58dualpride
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12 Apr 2024
A great way to learn Memoir Writing- studying artwork and zooming in on the best parts.
11 Apr 2024
👏🏻👏🏻 @MsMatson58 even read the Spanish parts in today’s writing mentor text: Family Pictures/Cuadros de Familia! Impressive! #dg58pride #fa58share
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22 Mar 2024
Such amazing authors!
22 Mar 2024
I’m going to miss working with this class so much! We had a great time during the @Schoolwide FUNctional Writing unit. Students set goals, created various writing pieces, sent persuasive letters in the mail, & made our own Jolly Postman book! #dg58pride #pufferpride
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21 Mar 2024
Amazing!
20 Mar 2024
In our functional writing unit Kdg. will be writing a persuasive letter to our parents. We wrote a class letter to our librarian @cforzley. We hope she will write back letting us know if we have persuaded her to let us check out two books each week. #dg58pride #LEchoosesHAPPY
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14 Mar 2024
I’m so impressed! Hope you noticed lots of details!
13 Mar 2024
Gallery walk to admire the details our classmates put into their letter illustrations today! @Schoolwide #dg58pride #pufferpride
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11 Mar 2024
So impressed! You are all such special writers!!
11 Mar 2024
@Schoolwide writing time in @Ms_Cunningham58 kindergarten! Students wrote about pets👏 #dg58pride #LEchoosesHAPPY
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24 Feb 2024
I’m so impressed with these Kindergarten authors!
23 Feb 2024
So awesome! Look at these smiles! 🥹 @Schoolwide Way to go Kindergarten and @Ms_Cunningham58 ! #dg58pride
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26 Jan 2024
So impressed with your Kindergarten writers!
26 Jan 2024
Listing ideas on what we know how to do for our how to writing unit. Kindergartners know how to do a lot of things. #dg58pride #LEchoosesHAPPY
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10 Jan 2024
#WEBINAR 💡 How do we inspire students to see themselves as writers? How do we surround students with examples and experiences that enrich their writing process, so they can grow as authors and writers?
Register and learn more here: bit.ly/3TS4kUA
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14 Dec 2023
You are assuming kids can’t learn how to read with these resources? Perhaps you should consider a broader lens that defines cultivating thoughtful readers instead of a myopic lens defining readers through creating decoders. You only did half of your research.
13 Dec 2023
All students in the @troyschools have the right to learn how to read. My pleas have gone unanswered and the Troy School District continues to use Lucy Calkins, Fountas & Pinnell and Reading Recovery. Inspired by @ehanford in Sold a Story., we will speak and march! #soldastory
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28 Nov 2023
Really appreciated your perspective
27 Nov 2023
Deeply appreciative. This math teacher has things to say about reading 😂
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28 Nov 2023
Except when you omit multilingual learners
27 Nov 2023
In case you haven't heard, 3 cueing is debunked. Please stop defending it.
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27 Nov 2023
But did you show them that there are always two sides to a story, especially this one!!!
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9 Nov 2023
So I suppose intonation, expression, thinking aloud, metacognition, unpacking vocabulary, honoring and building background knowledge aren’t important? Maybe before posting something like this you should think about responsive teaching and educating ALL learners!
9 Nov 2023
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8 Nov 2023
I am so impressed with the presentation skills of your young authors.
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4 Nov 2023
Perhaps it’s semantics. When using true gradual release, this portion of a lit. block may also be referred to as ind. practice which encompasses small group work, partnerships, ind rdg, writing about reading, etc. This allows for responsive instructional decision making for all.
4 Nov 2023
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25 Oct 2023
I don’t agree with this. There are so many reading behaviors that can be observed through RR, and the small group structure of GR allows for explicit prompting/teaching into text characteristics and strategic actions. Where is the comprehension focus on ISBE?
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25 Oct 2023
Way to go Kindergarten authors!!!
24 Oct 2023
CONGRATS to all of my little authors who presented in my classroom today for our PUBLISHING PARTY! I'm so proud of your accomplishments! #dg58learns #dg58pride #ilovewhittier
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23 Oct 2023
I appreciate this post & recording as they once again reinforce the importance of research, which is a huge problem with all of the SOR posts-they lack relevant and current research and seem to include bias rather than balance.
23 Oct 2023
Scanlon- Neither theory or research supports the heavy emphasis on phonics instruction nor the opposition to the use of contextual information. youtube.com/watch?v=qeIpd1mb…
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