During my visit in Manchester, PA, I met with teachers in grades 4-6 in Northeastern School District to study literacy work stations. We delved deeply into the differences between stations and centers to find out how to more effectively involve students in meaningful independent practice that they take responsibility for (rather than us doing all [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Practice with Purpose’
Learning about literacy stations
Posted in Classroom tips, Work stations, tagged literacy stations, Practice with Purpose, sharing cards on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lovely classroom libraries in Reading, PA
Posted in Classroom tips, tagged classroom library, Practice with Purpose, whole-group area on September 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »
While doing back to school inservice at Mt. Penn Elementary Center in Antietam School District in Reading, PA, a few 6th grade teachers asked me to peek in their classrooms. I saw some lovely classroom libraries! One teacher had organized books with a fiction section and a separate nonfiction section, as I suggest in my book, [...]
