Lively

This three-part set includes a beginning-of-year questionnaire, mid-year check-in, and end-of-year reflection. The beginning-of-year questionnaire is great to send home the first week of school. Each year I get such valuable insight into who my students are as people. Parents are pretty honest, and I appreciate that a lot! The mid-year check-in and end-of-year reflection are great for getting feedback from parents, which can help you grow your practice to best meet the needs of your students a

Are your students stuffing their book boxes or book bags with what seems like at least a dozen books?! It's great to have excited readers, but students often forget how many books they get to take for reading time. This handy label for your book boxes or book bags will help them remember how many books they should have each day. Research shows that when we are interactive with information, retention rates increase dramatically. So teach even very young students to write their name big and bold o

A simple tool to help students reflect/process on their behavior and keep parents in the loop.

Help students define their overall reading goal at the beginning of the year, then support them with mini goals along the way. My first graders usually state their big goal as "get better at reading" or something broad like that. Then while conferring with a student, together you can identify a next step to work on for a bit that is specific to that child's needs, rooted in phonics, fluency, decoding, comprehension, book choice, finding a good-fit spot to read, or whatever the child needs to be