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Students collaboratively working on summarizing, dictionary skills, questioning, and predicting through the text “The Golden Windows.”

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Students respond to HQIM reading by analyzing an array of literary elements (characterization, text-to-world connection, author’s purpose and craft, fundamental Ws, and figurative language).

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Students demonstrating the importance of proper grammar conventions in writing.

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Incorporating Gretchen Bernabei’s grammatical journaling into my bell ringers.

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This is such a cool gift!

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#WritingWalks: Students improve their use of writing conventions through a gallery walk.

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Students actively read “Mission Ready” in preparation for their next ECR, play “Beat the Clock” to demonstrate comprehension.

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Students use Gretchen Bernabei’s text structures for response to summarize myth (“How Music Came to the World”) from our High Quality Instructional Material.

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Students complete Gretchen Bernabei’s Reader Response in collaboration with High Quality Instructional Material (“How Grandmother Spider Stole the Sun”).

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Saturday Soccer

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Collaboration with clear responsibilities in reading and analyzing text makes a team work cohesively.

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Students combine their knowledge of sentence structures with their independent reading by identifying compound sentences in their library book.

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Students helping each other improve their revising and editing skills.

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#DiscussionDrawing: Students illustratively share their independent reading with their shoulder partner.

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Read & Reduce: Students collaboratively review genre elements and determine unnecessary words in order to pinpoint key ideas.

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@CoachTaylor2018 Love this book.

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Full house!

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Beyond the Text: Students internalize characters and determine protagonist's future outcome (writing a letter from 1st Person POV) to discuss antagonist's influence.

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Twin Day.
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#ThinkingThursday Bell Ringer: Students combine and visualize vocabulary words learned through previously-read texts to synergize and strengthen new language acquisition.

(Vocabulary words pictured: Brook, Knoll, Pocketbook, Shutters)