Finishing up the last few chapters of our read aloud with some sketchnotes! Thanks, Tanny McGregor!

My entire career I’ve asked high school students to sit on the floor for storytime once a week & read them a children’s book. They think I’m nuts at first but they totally get into it! 💛 one of my favorite routines!

I’ve been reading aloud my entire teaching career. My 6th graders love it just as much as my 8th graders did! My favorite part of the day! ⁦WordNerd⁩, ⁦christy sunderman⁩ Why Reading Aloud to Older Children Is Valuable | MindShift | KQED N kqed.org/mindshift/2858…

One of my favorite Christmas cards was from the principal of my daughters school telling me what an incredible gift she is to the School! The impressive part is that my daughter is the teacher not the student! A beautiful Christmas postcard along with a personal note!

Peer editing our 11 minute essays! #WCConnects WordNerd

When you need to reach all your students, including ESL, while watching a TED talk, you find creative ways. Closed captioning in Spanish on the big screen and a separate laptop with closed captioning in Thai! #WCConnects, @6thap , WordNerd

Making claims with pictures and defending those claims!! Lots of insightful arguing happening today!! #WCConnects WordNerd

Book Tasting for our Nonfiction Units of Study and independent reading all in the same day! #WCConnects WordNerd @6thap @wcwolfpackreads

What happens to your brain on books? Our latest Storyworks infographic reveals. Created by our genius senior editor Allison Friedman Scholastic @scholasticteach

Nonfiction Units of Study in full swing today! Co-teaching, rich conversations and Thai and Spanish students conversing with Google Translate! I even started reading one of the books so a student could have a partner! So glad I did! WordNerd @6thap #WCConnects

An ELA teacher’s dream—you recommend your all time favorite Sharon Draper book to a student and you catch her(very shyly) reading a part to a friend!! Those books never disappoint!! @wcwolfpackreads Sharon M. Draper

So impressed with my students work with Black History month! Love to see how many express themselves so well with mental pictures! One even made her own sheet-looks a little like Sketchnotng-don’t you think, Tanny?Tanny McGregor WordNerd @6thap

TED talks together, TED talks individually, analysis questions, CHOICES and co-teaching all in one lesson! Thanks, Maddie Mullee for doing such an awesome job!!! WordNerd @6thap #WCConnects Ms. Mullee

It’s time for a #TeacherAppreciation book giveaway! Retweet for a chance to win a copy of #InkAndIdeas. The winner will be randomly chosen & announced on Friday, 5/10 at 9:00 pm EST. 🤞🏼😊

We decided to come to the carpet and THINK about our reading! We read for 5 minutes and then answered a question or two and then read for 5 more and answered a few more. What a powerful 10 minutes with an honest look at the books we are reading! West Clermont Wolves WordNerd

Book sampling, Book talking, a little paper, rock and scissors to decide who gets to read the title first AND then finding a comfy spot to read them! First Book Tasting of the year a success! Love my readers! WordNerd West Clermont Wolves West Clermont MS

Creating questions while reading Nonfiction is awesome when you have so many books to choose from! Loving my IDR library! WordNerd @JessicaWestEDU Ellie Preston

When your students “dance out of the room” every Friday and this week the principal happens to be there, it’s an awesome Friday!! Thanks, Ross Hudson for joining them! It made their day. WCMS_WolvesAPs Ross Hudson

Due to inclement weather, West Clermont School District is on a two-hour delay for Friday, February 7th. There will be no AM preschool.

I absolutely loved Making Meaning this year! My students did such a great job during carpet time and IDR! Lots of fabulous reading from nonfiction and fiction going on all year! #WCRISE