The professional learning that takes place during Dearborn’s Teacher Reading Academy is valuable and worthwhile according to the participant’s evaluations!

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This is a short article outlining what should be in Early Literacy Classrooms across our State There is an additional article for Preschool if you would like to see it please respond to this blog and I will post for you.

All Snow Fifth Graders have worked hard this week on the ELA M-Step! Here are some of their happy faces as they finish.

This is a small bookmark you can use to check your reading fluency or your child’s fluency.

Tonight I attended Kindergarten Round Up and met our future kindergartners and their families!  They will begin in the Fall of 2016!

In March I attended the Michigan Reading Conference at Cobo Hall  It was so exciting to meet authors from Michigan and around the United States.  It was also interesting to think about the higher levels of text students should be exposed to daily.  

One great way to do this is by reading the newspaper or magazines with your child.  Discuss what you have read.  A fellow teacher recommended The Reader’s Digest to me and my family has been reading it together.  We do the crossword puzzles and share interesting articles.

When reading holiday stories at home compare and contrast two of them.  Talk with your child about what is similar and what is different in each story:  Comparisons could be between characters, settings, problems or solutions.

These two stories have gingerbread characters and in the stories a character is LONELY.  Then we talked about what happened to solve the problem and about a time each student was lonely.