Amy Mecham

Enjoy teaching reading with mini-lessons? We all need great book recommendations when teaching those mini-lessons, so here you go! The Comprehensive Book List: Reading Strategies includes hundreds of books organized according to strategy (and it's all alphabetized too.... and each author is listed.....wow!!). Here are the categories included: Comprehension -Check for understanding -Schema/background knowledge -Mental picture -Predicting -Text features: dictionary, thesaurus, & glossary -Summ

Need a planning page for your teacher binder for all those wonderfully exciting teacher meetings you attend on a regular basis....?!!! Here's a free meeting notes download for you! It's black and white to save on ink, but it's very practical as well. There's a spot for your topic, date, and notes. You have a to do list and space to doodle (who doesn't doodle during meeting after meeting after meeting....!) At the top of this page, there is a place to identify if your notes have been dea