Post at The Literacy Ladder

Head over to The Literacy Ladder to check out my post on a great Phonemic Awareness program!

And don't forget to join in our weekly Linky Party "WOW Me Wednesday!"

Share your favorite products, freebies, and/or blog posts and WOW us!

Snow Day Link-Up

The Eastern half of the United States is under a blanket of ice and snow!

How will you combat the "Snow Day Slump?"

Check out my post at The Literacy Ladder for some great resources for Snow Day reading and writing opportunities!

Then come back and link up your own ideas here!

An InLinkz Link-up

The Literacy Ladder - January Post

Be sure to stop by and check out my post for this month at THE LITERACY LADDER!

It's all about daily writing in the primary grades and features my new daily writing FREEBIE!

 

WOW Me Wednesday!

I'm linking up with our new collaborative blog, The Literacy Ladder, for the first ever weekly linky, WOW Me Wednesday!

I love giving my students opportunities to WOW me with their ability to solve problems and explain their thinking.  That's why every week we practice extended response questions for reading, math, and/or science.  After grading the assessments I choose "Star" Work to hang in the hall on our Star Student displays.  This holds students accountable for doing their best work, communicating their thinking well, and answering the question correctly.

(Pic of hall display to come tomorrow... Silly sinus infection has me couch-bound today.)

You can give your students opportunities to WOW you, too!  Check out some FREE Extended Response items in my TPT store, 21st Century K (follow links on the FREEBIE tab above).  Options for purchase included scaffold sets of questions for a single standard or sets of four themed for the month aligned to Kindergarten or First Grade Common Core.

2015 Currently

Linking up with "Oh' Boy 4th Grade," for 2015 Currently!

I'm also SUPER EXCITED to announce that I will be a part of a NEW collaborative blog with teachers from across the country AND abroad! 

Our new blog, The Literacy Ladder, will focus on all things literacy with a emphasis on ELA Common Core connections in the elementary grades.

Check out The Literacy Ladder HERE:

 

To celebrate our launch we are hosting a BIG TPT Giveaway with $24 in our own products and 5X$10 in TPT Gift Cards! 

Be sure to follow us and enter to win!

 

 

 

New Year, New Resolutions!

Linking up with "The Third Wheel," on this last day of 2014 to share goals for the new year.  I'm really excited to spend quality time with my own kids, watch my kinders grow this spring, and add to my professional repertoire this year!

 

Aside from all this I am SO EXCITED to announce that I will be a part of a NEW collaborative blog with teachers from across the country AND abroad! 

Our new blog, The Literacy Ladder, will focus on all things literacy with a emphasis on ELA Common Core connections in the elementary grades.

Check out The Literacy Ladder HERE:

 

To celebrate our launch we are hosting a BIG TPT Giveaway with $24 in our own products and 5X$10 in TPT Gift Cards! 

Be sure to follow us and enter to win!