Mrs. Holle’s 1st graders are working on their foundational skills. We are working on short vowel sounds and had a peer lead us in decoding a word with short e. AltonBoydElementary

Ms.Autumn Jones 1st graders are turning and talking with a partner and sharing their question about the text. AltonBoydElementary

Ms.High’s 6th graders are writing a constructed response to our Springboard text “Thank You a ma’am”. @boydblackhawks

Ms. Autumn Jones’ 1st graders our learning about point-of-view with our new HMH resources! The teacher is doing a shared reading from the digital book while the students follow along in their books! AltonBoydElementary

Mrs.Holle’s 1st grade class is working on their stations while students are working at teacher table. These kids know exactly what to do and taught me how to work at their stations! AltonBoydElementary

Mrs. Butler modeled how to revise the beginning ,middle, and end of her story. Now it is the student’s turn! AltonBoydElementary

Who doesn’t enjoy having a story read to them?!! Mrs.High’s 6th graders are enjoying our novel “Walk Two Moons”! AltonBoydElementary

Mrs.Blackman’s kindergartners are busy using our new HMH resources to learn new vocabulary and sight words. We are also turning-and-talking to share our thinking about our shared reading! AltonBoydElementary Allen ISD Literacy

We😍 picking out books at the Boyd book fair🧡 AltonBoydElementary

Mrs.Holle’s 1st graders are celebrating being authors of their first book! It was on Storybook Character Day too! So fun! AltonBoydElementary Allen ISD Literacy

Second grade had a special reader! Mr.David Hicks, Allen ISD Chief Communications Officer! AltonBoydElementary

Allen Reads Together! Mrs.McQueeney aka Piggie is reading Hooray for Books to kindergarten on Storybook Character Day! AltonBoydElementary

Ms. Autumn Jones’s 1st graders are following a procedural text to learn how to make a bat with cookies and frosting! Such a fun Halloween treat! AltonBoydElementary Allen ISD Literacy

6th grade is learning about flashbacks in Walk Two Moons. Ms.High’s class is SUPER engaged with this story! There are all kinds of theories percolating! AltonBoydElementary Allen ISD Literacy

Mrs.Riyan Jones kindergarteners are practicing their sight words. Can you beat the clock? You can tell that they have been practicing their words! AltonBoydElementary Allen ISD Literacy

Mrs.Riyan Jones kindergarteners are enjoying partner reading with our new HMH decodable readers! AltonBoydElementary Allen ISD Literacy

Congratulations to our Shining Star Mrs.Emily Jane Holle for embracing the Science of Teaching Reading! AltonBoydElementary Allen ISD Literacy

Mr.Jimenez’s kindergarteners are enjoying exploring new books from our Boyd library! They are excited to find sight words, the glossary, and all of the things they have been learning about nonfiction texts in reading! AltonBoydElementary Allen ISD Literacy

We had so much fun at the Heard Museum today! The kindergarteners loved it!

Our Blackhawk kindergarten team is busy planning engaging lessons for FOCUS time during extended planning. AltonBoydElementary