Whitney Smith

A God fearing wife and mother of two! Starting my second career at the age of 35 as a 1st grade teacher!

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@CharityyNW @UvondaMitchell Our students have Media as an activity time every two weeks also. I, personally, use small group time to allow students to visit the library every other day! It is one of the rotations during this time! My kids LOVE going to the library!

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@feefer128 @UvondaMitchell This is the cutest idea! I think the kids in our primary school would LOVE this! Such an engaging, fun way to encourage a love for books!

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@SherriShanice @UvondaMitchell It’s funny that our school does iReady reading diagnostics but we don’t actually use the data to drive classroom instruction! 🤔 In the classroom we do running records (drives my instruction) and intervention administers dibels!

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@feefer128 @UvondaMitchell I have never heard of MAP but I also like that it is tied to intervention. I do running records in the classroom and the intervention teachers administer dibels assessments, which is what they base their instruction on during pull outs! I wish this was more streamlined!

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The firemen in our county are awesome! We have invited the firemen to come every Tuesday and Thursday and let the kids read to them. This gives struggling readers extra practice and they all enjoy showing off their skills. #CF20CultureofLiteracy @UvondaMitchell

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So I’ve always known my school’s Galileo password (even as a parent) but I have never accessed it until working through this module. I will definitely be using this to find articles and ebooks for my class! #CF20DigitalResources @UvondaMitchell

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My school uses Fountas and Pinell Guided Reding levels and we administer bi-monthly running records with quarterly benchmarks to monitor student growth. Running Records allow one-on-one time for me to asses student strengths and weaknesses! #CF20QualityAssessments @UvondaMitchell

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@1195Amanda @UvondaMitchell I use Epic and Bookflix in my classroom. They both have read aloud books and my kids LOVE them. I use those for my listening station. Hearing good reading is super important for kids who are learning to read. You should take a look at those if you don’t use them already.

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@feefer128 @UvondaMitchell My kids LOVE Epic! We also use bookflix and they absolutely love it too. If you haven’t already, you should check it out too!

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@whitney_kimbrel @UvondaMitchell I love reading papers after my firsties are done writing. Some of their spelling can be quite comical. Some kids are so hesitant to just write what they hear. They will ask me ALL DAY to help them spell words so this is awesome that she wrote this on her own.

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@feefer128 @UvondaMitchell I absolutely love watching their minds work as they try so hard to figure words out. We have a 30 minute phonemic awareness block in my first grade class each morning and I love watching them make the connections when they read to me!

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@Melissa_RTR @UvondaMitchell Using those tier 2 words is something I have to just make sure I’m being intentional about. It feels silly sometimes but it really works.

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@feefer128 @UvondaMitchell My kiddos LOVE sight word BINGO! They don’t even realize they are learning and it has definitely helped my struggling readers!

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As I was administering Running Records for my below grade-level readers, one of my readers came across the word “snowman” in the book she was reading. She “chunked” the word by saying “snow” then “man” and then blended them together to say “snowman.” #CF20Phonics @UvondaMitchell

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Each week, my students are introduced to 4-5 new tier 2 vocabulary words that come from our interactive read aloud. They are introduced to kid friendly definitions. I am then very intentional about helping them make connections to the words! #CF20VocabularyIdeas @UvondaMitchell

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@DwaramPrabhu @UvondaMitchell I like that this rubric is used for math. Writing rubrics are so common but we can and should create rubrics anytime we want to relay expectations to our students. I also love that you used the words Grow and Glow!

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@1195Amanda @UvondaMitchell I LOVE that you are focusing on oral presentation in pre-k! This is an awesome rubric. I have 1st graders who can talk up a storm until they are asked to speak in front of our class. They obviously haven’t been taught these skills!

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I will use this rubric for grading my student’s narrative writings! #CF20SinglePointRubric @UvondaMitchell