Fluency station practice #excellenceinmotion Nichols Sawmill Elementary

Data-driven instruction only makes sense if the data makes sense. And much of the data used to guide reading instruction doesn't. My latest Forbes post: forbes.com/sites/nataliew…

Need to block out background noise? Look no further than this fancy recording studio! 😂 So proud of these Ellisorbulldogs learning the Seesaw ropes and sharing their learning! Christin Oldham Katzy McNeill Shayla Richter

A new study confirms that reading comprehension strategies work best if combined with background knowledge. And: the effect of 55 hours of instruction is the same as 1 hour. Kids get WAY more than 55 hrs in school. Daniel Willingham More in my Forbes post: forbes.com/sites/nataliew…

Our readers are reading with expression, accuracy, and understanding what they read! This is fluency in action! Nichols Sawmill Elementary #excellenceinmotion

It's so exciting to get back into classrooms. Nichols Sawmill Elementary students are hard at work in stations and informational texts! Jaclyn Hill Sarah Shingler

Blast from the Past: How should we combine reading and writing? shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/how-shoul…

We went on our second virtual field trip to the state capitol! We also got a visit from our quiet critters while we worked on our books. 🏛️🤠 #BuildingContentKnowledge #MISDPageTurners Nichols Sawmill Elementary

We had so much fun acting out how taxes work while learning about the state capitol and government today! #BuildingContentKnowledge #MISDPageTurners #ExcellenceInMotion Nichols Sawmill Elementary

Check out this FIRST grade writing from First with Mrs. Rogas at Ellisorbulldogs. These kiddos learned all about the Statue of Liberty and were so excited to write about it!

Lots of explicit instruction, differentiated stations, building background knowledge, and engaged students Ellisorbulldogs Way to go EES teachers and students! Katzy McNeill Brittney Dougherty First with Mrs. Rogas Kalyn Stevens

Today was election day! We made our way to the polling booths and voted for our favorite mascot candidate. We even had our awesome administrators come and work our booths! Tommy the turtle won for our class! Nichols Sawmill Elementary @ataylornses @NSEPerkins

One thing on our class mascot’s platform was a class carnival, so I made that happen today! We did carnival word races (with suffixes), played heart word bean bag toss, wrote about what carnival ride is the best, and ended the day with carnival handwriting. 🎠🎡🎢🎟️

Today in one of our small groups, students practiced responding to a text using R.A.P & text evidence. They were ROCKING it. #ExcellenceInMotion Nichols Sawmill Elementary

Lucky the leprechaun destroyed our room last night. However we wrote letters as a class, so hopefully he will come back and clean up after himself. 🍀🤞🏻 #ExcellenceInMotion Nichols Sawmill Elementary

Our readers were “Eggsperts” this week in all things reading! They segmented sounds in spoken words, identified and read printed words, sorted and recorded opinions and facts, AND collected Easter eggs! Nichols Sawmill Elementary #excellenceinmotion

Benefit to teaching *phonological awareness ALONE*? Paper by Melissa Stalega with me and others about whether there is a benefit to teaching PA alone... Basically: Teaching PA: better PA Teaching PA WITH letters: better PA AND better word reading. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Today's prize is a FREE writing course from thinkSRSD! This training is regularly priced $200 but the knowledge you'll gain is priceless! I have learned SO much & I know you will too! To enter, follow me & Science of Writing Instruction and retweet this post. Winner announced on May 11th.

*Teacher Appreciation Week Giveaway for THURSDAY!* I'm giving away a prize EVERY SINGLE DAY this week! Today's prize is a set of Laugh-a-Lot Phonics from @scholastic! I ♥️ using these decodables in my 1st grade classroom! Like & retweet to enter! 🇺🇸 only. Good luck!