Building Community: Morning Greetings

Morning Greetings: One Minute Greeting

Picture Greetings

Silent Butterfly Greeting

Sample Greetings

Writing

Writer's Workshop in Kindergarten:

Common Core Writing Lesson, Kindergarten - using Sound Card

Common Core Writer's Workshop for 2nd Grade

Guided Reading Resources

Kindergarten Guided Reading Lesson:






Ist Grade Guided Reading Lesson Level C

3rd Grade Guided Reading - Inferring the Moral of a Fable

Guided Reading with Jenna - 5th Grade

Guided Reading - 2nd Grade Informational Text

Reading and Listening Comprehension

Assessment of Reading Comprehension using Fountas and Pinnell
http://www.heinemann.com/products/E02776.aspx


Guided Reading Kindergarten with Informational Text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B111bcxnOLo&list=PLSp83U4fGpRTuS-zj7VwMxCXc5fsEr2C7&index=57

Phonemic Awareness and Phonics

Phonemic Awareness Overview

Letters and Sounds
Kindergarten




Understanding Digraphs






Phonemic Segmentation with Chips


Phonemic Substitution





Invented Spelling




Helping Struggling Readers

Teaching School Success Skills

Emotional Regulation:

When I'm Angry Board:

PBS Prevention Strategies

Positive Behavior Cue Board

Positive Feedback

Precise Praise (Teach Like a Champion)

Responsive Classroom

High-Quality Feedback

Teacher Language Introduction

Reinforcing Language

Describing Student's Work

During Independent Work Time

Clean Up Time

Engaging Students in Learning

Cold Calling

Turn and Talk Videos:

Yellow Giraffe Turn and Talk

 

Building Community

Building Community by Helping Children to Get to Know Each Other

Building Community PowerPoint

Morning Meeting Greetings:

Picture Greetings

Toe to Toe Greetings

The Positive Classroom Building Community Post



Positive Feedback and Climate

Giving High Quality Feedback

Teacher-Child Conversation in Preschool:

Giving Positive Feedback
Super Friend Award from the Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations of Early Learning

Teaching Procedures

Interactive Modeling from the Responsive Classroom:

—Attention-Getting Signals – Teaching Channel

—Using Sign Language Signals – Edutopia

—Getting Ready to Learn – SLANT

—Managing Transitions

Preschool Video showing how the teacher reviews procedures. She calls these "rules" but they are really procedures:

This teacher reviews acceptable behavior using a Stop and Go visual:

—Individualized Transition Cues used in Preschool:

Kindergarten Writing

Kindergarten Writers' Workshop Mini-lesson from Canda Mortensen on Vimeo.

Connecting Reading and Writing

CONNECTING READING AND WRITING VIDEO

Examples from a 3rd grade classroom. Good activity in getting children to use sound, taste, sight in their writing.

Language Learning

PBS Film on Language Development











SEMANTIC GRADIENTS:

Differentiating Writing Instruction

 Here are some videos from Reading Rocket that give great ideas for differentiating writing instruction, especially in using different formats and strategies to meet different students' needs:

DIGITAL TOOLS FOR YOUNG WRITERS:




A ROOM OF WRITERS (3rd Grade)




SPELLING CHECK (3rd Grade)



WRITING A COOPERATIVE PARAGRAPH