What Are Context Clues? Context clues are the words, phrases, or sentences around an unfamiliar word that help readers figure out its meaning. Connected Skills There are several skills that depend on students first mastering context clues. When students can unlock word meaning, they can think more deeply and respond more accurately across the entireContinue reading “Connected Skills Series(Part 1): Context Clues”
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Explicit ELA: A Model for Revising and Editing Mastery
What is Bloom’s Taxonomy? Bloom’s Taxonomy is a framework for classifying educational objectives, originally developed by Benjamin Bloom and his colleagues in 1956. It includes six levels of thinking: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, evaluation, and creation (though I personally prefer the term synthesis). Many of the skills students learn are grounded in this rigor matrixContinue reading “Explicit ELA: A Model for Revising and Editing Mastery”
Effective Elements of Plot Instruction: Bloom’s Taxonomy Approach
Elements Of Plot (Knowledge/Comprehension) Intro: Over the past few years, I’ve developed a method to teach Elements of Plot in an explicit but engaging way. A differentiated approach which follows Bloom’s Taxonomy progression. In this article, I’ll share scaffolds, engagement strategies and the overall (Hattie) effect size for teaching Elements of Plot using the routine.Continue reading “Effective Elements of Plot Instruction: Bloom’s Taxonomy Approach”
#WisdomWednesday: Meet The Target
Early in the school year, I told my students that our first goal-In ELA(English/Language Arts) was to reach District-Level performance and then perform above that level. I didn’t want them to be the best class in their school but in the District. Mind you, this is a group which started at 56 percent pass rate,Continue reading “#WisdomWednesday: Meet The Target”
Phenomenal Instruction: A Guide To Reading Intervention
Intro: Education is experiencing a shift from the Balanced Literacy(Small Group) to the Structured Literacy(Whole Group) model. No longer can Teachers/Reading Interventionists say that they looked at a Letter and then follow a rote script. Now, practitioners analyze, evaluate and synthesize data and then implement interventions. With that in mind, I put together “A GuideContinue reading “Phenomenal Instruction: A Guide To Reading Intervention”
Phenomenal Intervention: S.T.A.A.R. Prep
In this article, I share how I improved a group of 29 students performance from 45 to 79 percent pass rate.
A Phenomenal Reflection: “They Were Phenomenal”
As I press forward with the blog, I’ll post former Reflections of my first few years as teacher. Here’s the first. It’s a Reflection that I wrote at the end of last year where 91 percent of my kids passed the Reading S.T.A.A.R. and 87 percent passed the Math S.T.A.A.R. They earned it, too. TheyContinue reading “A Phenomenal Reflection: “They Were Phenomenal””
The Phenomenal Student
To not bury the lead, the Phenomenal Student is a ten point scale that evaluates the overall student to give you a true Learner profile. It’s broken down into three categories: intangibles, non-academic factors, academics factors. After students are evaluated, they are broken into six different categories. 100(Phenomenal Student) 90-99 (Superstar Student) 80-89 (All-Star Student)Continue reading “The Phenomenal Student”
The Phenomenal Student 