Choose your words carefully when teaching challenging text. James Nottingham #PlainTalk2019

Here’s a thought from Dr. Dan Willingham: Tell students what they should do. #PlainTalk2019

Thank you sarahELA for bringing our first and second grade teachers some great learning today as we learn how to get our students Reading, Talking, and Writing about text! 💚📚Janet Sexton KCS Elementary ELA

First grade was doing some amazing writing in response to text today! 📚💚 Green Magnet Academy

Novel teaching? Good idea or not? shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/my-two-ha…

How to make the reading workshop more effective shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/how-to-ma…

What an awesome group of Ss from Dogwood Elementary! The 4th grade Reading Cafe was a huge success! The future of Reading is in great hands for #DFL Lana Shelton-Lowe Dogwood Library .Knox County Schools @KCSInstruction KCS Elementary ELA

So proud to be a part of a school system with such an inspirational and engaged school leader. He walks the walk every day! Thanks to Knox County SchoolsSupt! @KnoxSchools is THE place to be! National Institute for Excellence in Teaching

“But if you really want kids to love reading, teach them to read. Achievement does more for motivation than the other way around.” Timothy Shanahan shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/does-inde…

Dumbfounded when I hear "every child learns differently." 1) They literally don't. Scientists can make generalizations about the mechanism across people. 2) If every child *did* learn differently, experience would be meaningless. A teacher would be a novice with each new child.

Mrs. Fawver’s class learned expectations for collaborative conversations in the first 2 weeks of school . Now they are ready to have those conversations while building knowledge in ELA ! #benchmarkadvance #buildingacommunityoflearners Adrian Burnett Elementary School KCS Elementary ELA

My students are loving their personal word building folders. Blue Grass Elementary Liana Gibson @CantrillJamie Katie Jordan KCS Elementary ELA

My book! It is real!!! With my name on it!!!!! #AASL21

Loved seeing anchor chart in Mrs. Chancey’s classroom at Sam E. Hill! Students were working hard to collect Booster Bits while small group instruction was taking place! Imagine Learning Yvonne Parrish Alyssa Miller English Language Learners of KCS

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Thank you 🌍 ναℓєηтιηα gσηzαℓєz for these important reminders! #TNTESOL2021 English Language Learners of KCS

What do our students need? Wiley Blevins discusses these supports during phonics instruction. Benchmark Education Wiley Blevins, EdD KCS Elementary ELA @hannah_ellcoach Lisa Clark

Students Sterchi Elementary were working hard on determining the cause and effect of events in their text! Look at these beautiful language scaffolds!

Ms. Golden’s students are all recent arrivals and were very engaged learning the prepositions on, in, and at and when to use them correctly. English Language Learners of KCS Vine Middle Magnet

Students Christenberry Elementary learning about perspective by actively engaging in story listening of “The Three Blind Men and the Elephant”. Look at ALL this scaffolding that is being used to make this story comprehensible! English Language Learners of KCS