Wendy Taylor

Instructional Coach, Teacher, Reading Specialist, Parent, Writer

[Nearpod @nearpod]

💻 Join us TONIGHT for the #NearpodChat with @PeppyZestyTeach! 💻

💬 Topic: Distance Learning with Nearpod
⏰ Time: 8:00pm ET

💙 Retweet if you will be joining us tonight! 💙

#RemoteLearning #COVID19Edu

[Wendy Taylor @TaylorLitCoach]

Shout out to these 4th graders! Thinking deeply about why Katrina is considered the most destructive and costliest hurricane in US history. #SFLearns #SayMeanMatter

[Wendy Taylor @TaylorLitCoach]

S's analyzed images and text about Chicago's Great Fire. How did the photographer and author support the idea that Chicago was "ready to burn" in 1871? Questions erupted: What were fire departments like? Why wasn't safety part of city planning? When was cement invented and used?

[Wendy Taylor @TaylorLitCoach]

Glad I could be a part of this special school's sing-a-long today 😀

[Sρɾιɳɠ Cιƚყ Eʅҽɱҽɳƚαɾყ @SpringCityRAMS]

Happy holidays from our family to yours! @SpringFordASD @BelieveUPE #smallschoolbigheart

[Wendy Taylor @TaylorLitCoach]

@Flipgrid @AngelaStockman Thanks. How do I go about getting a Flipgrid tent? Love your tool :)

[Wendy Taylor @TaylorLitCoach]

Lots of smiles on these Ss' faces as they built their ideas around character interactions using maker bags @angelastockman , developed their ideas with #SayMeanMatter and posted their response on @Flipgrid. Amazing to see the thinking emerge when not limited by print.#sfearns

[Ditch That Textbook @DitchThatTxtbk]

🚨UPDATED POST🚨

30 🤯 interactive Google Slides activities for classroom excitement 🙌

🗂TONS of templates
🎲A @wakelet collection of incredible #QRBreakIn games
👍Activities you can use tomorrow!

https://t.co/TnGt6vQQyl via @jmattmiller
#ditchbook @GoogleForEdu

[Wendy Taylor @TaylorLitCoach]

Love the cozy fire!

[Brittany Freeman @BFreemanTeach]

What do you do after a super hype event like Dunkin’ with Dads? 🏀 Cozy up with a good ole’ book as a class family! ♥️ @EpicKidsBooks

[Traci Piltz 💛✨ @TraciPiltz]

They’ve done it again! 🙌🏻 You can now annotate on PDFs in @seesaw! 🎉 Plus check out the new zoom 🔍 tool. Always making it easier & better for Ss to reflect & share their thinking 💭 & learning. 🖍 We love Seesaw! 💕💛

[Shake Up Learning @ShakeUpLearning]

10 Awesome Ways to Use Flipgrid in Your Classroom

https://t.co/KXuVUbcMEd
#edtech

[Monica Burns, Ed.D #EdTech #ISTELive #ASCDAnnual @ClassTechTips]

11 Technology Tools for the Reading Classroom #edtech (feat. @seesaw, @nearpod, and more!) https://t.co/GGtcNv1YFH

[Wendy Taylor @TaylorLitCoach]

I love my fellow elementary instructional coaches 💙💛

[Wendy Taylor @TaylorLitCoach]

@AngelaStockman Thanks! We are using SayMeanMatter as a thinking strategy for analysis. What does the text say?What does it mean?Why does it matter? It is supporting Ss with going beyond the inference and getting Ss to show the relationship between elements like character and theme in this case.

[Wendy Taylor @TaylorLitCoach]

@mrskanopka I love this Sue! I have been using individual "maker bags." I love the loose part idea for the whole table :)

[Wendy Taylor @TaylorLitCoach]

Blown away by these 4th graders and their amazing thinking. Ss used maker bags to tinker with their ideas around character development and used Say Mean Matter strategy to dig deeper into The Dot. @Nearpod @MakeWriting#saymeanmatter#SFLearns

[Wendy Taylor @TaylorLitCoach]

Introduced 5th grade students to @WhooosReading to track minutes, answer questions about self-selected books and write book reviews to recommend books to classmates with a short text @StorylineOnline.com. Kids loved it and I loved the specific feedback the site gives!

[Wendy Taylor @TaylorLitCoach]

Thanks to all of the teachers who participated in sessions today! We had fun using talk, tech tools and “making” to promote that deeper dive into text. #SFlearns#saymeanmatter#bookheadheart#makewriting@Nearpod

[Wendy Taylor @TaylorLitCoach]

I am so THANKFUL 💙💛for these amazing 1st graders who jumped into the @seesaw tool today! Ss practiced identifying nouns, drawing person, places and things they were thankful for. Even got them recording their thoughts and sharing ideas with friends! #sflearns

[Wendy Taylor @TaylorLitCoach]

@SFCoachNicole @Seesaw Such amazing thinking and sharing of ideas!!!

[Wendy Taylor @TaylorLitCoach]

Students love using @nearpod tools to communicate their ideas! #saymeanmatter