Literacy Builders

Week of November 5, 2011 

Volume 2 - Issue No.7

The Boost 
In This Issue
Keeping Connected
Sharing
... And Collaborating
Quick Links
Quick Links
Find us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter

 

With Halloween just passed and Thanksgiving right around the corner, it's a busy time of year.

In this issue of The Boost, I share a smattering of ideas and thinking that will help sustain your

curiosity about all things literacy!  Enjoy!

   

Kim Yaris

Executive Director
Literacy Builders
  

Keeping Connected 

Keeping Connected  

 

What websites do you use to support your teaching and learning about literacy?  Be sure to check out our recommendations and email us with other sites that you think should be included!  Link to this page on our website

 

 

 

What's FREE FOR NOW?

 

Because we realize that once a month may not be enough of a mini lesson "boost," we are rolling out a new mini lesson freebie program called Free for Now. Throughout the month, we will be posting different mini lessons and mini lesson collections and keeping you updated via Facebook and our website homepage.  Be sure to check back often so that you can download the lessons that are relevant to your teaching!

  

  

 

Sharing...

 

Reading Workshop

 

What are you doing to help students navigate increasingly complex texts?  Acclaimed author and literacy consultant Vicki Vinton shares some GREAT ideas for helping children infer.  Her blog To Make a Prairie is an excellent resource for collegial thinking and pushing yourself to outgrow your best ideas.

    

 

Writing Workshop 

 

Are certain conventions and grammar rules at risk in our 21st Century world? Be sure to check out some recent thinking about our society's abuse of the apostrophe and other particularities that may soon find themselves obsolete in this cheeky article from the Wall Street Journal. 

 

  

 

... And Collaborating

 

Collaborating

As we continue to think and learn about the Common Core State Standards, be sure not to miss this article from the Harvard Education Letter addressing Five Myths about the Common Core State Standards. 

 

 

 

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