Rethinking 3rd Grade

2 very simple editing checklists for students to use before they publish in writer's workshop. I based this one off of the suggestions from Lucy Calkins's editing checklist lesson in her Units of Study for Teaching Writing. She encourages teachers to help students make personalized editing checklists, but this is a good starting point for all students! This version is in Power Point so you can edit the items on the list for individual students or for different groups. The 2nd set of checklists i

I love leading book clubs with my chapter book readers, but I always struggled with helping them be prepared for the meeting while also keeping their work authentic. (I always found assigned roles such as "Word Detective" and "Summarizer" and "Questioner" to be limiting.) So, I created a general guide and note-taking sheet that would prepare my students to read and discuss any book, that I could use again and again with different groups over the whole school year. Each notebook includes a page

Very simple editing checklists for students to use before they publish in writer's workshop. I based this one off of the suggestions from Lucy Calkins's editing checklist lesson in her Units of Study for Teaching Writing. She encourages teachers to help students make personalized editing checklists, but this is a good starting point for all students!

Lucy Calkins and Jennifer Seravallo stress the importance of students knowing and understanding the structure of a reading conference so the student can focus on the teaching point. I made these bookmarks for students to keep so they would always know what to expect from a reading conference and would always be prepared for one!

Students keep track of each round of Everyday Math's Number Top-it. Includes boxes for greater than and less than, score, and a line for the winner.

This year, I am focusing on improving my reading conferences. I wrote this survey for the beginning of the year to get to know how my students feel about reading conferences and what they hope to get out of them.