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As a reading teacher, you are probably already doing heart work and head work, maybe you just haven’t named it for students.  When you ask students to make connections to the main character, you are asking them to do heart work. They have to look within themselves, first know about themselves as humans, before they can connect to a text in any way. An interactive read aloud provides not only practice of reading skills, but also leaves us, the community of readers, with a moral, lesson or theme t

Daily Done List Template: Celebrate Your Wins and Prevent Burnout Are you tired of endless to-do lists that never seem to get shorter? As teachers, we do so much each day—but often forget to pause and recognize our accomplishments. That’s where the Daily Done List comes in! This free printable template helps you: ✅ Celebrate your daily wins—big or small. ✅ Shift your focus from what’s undone to what you’ve achieved.✅ Boost your confidence and prevent burnout by recognizing your progress. How

As a reading teacher, you are probably already doing this work, maybe you just haven’t named it for students.  When you ask students to make connections to the main character, you are asking them to do heart work. They have to look within themselves, first know about themselves as humans, before they can connect to a text in any way. An interactive read aloud provides not only practice of reading skills, but also leaves us, the community of readers, with a moral, lesson or theme that impacts our

As a reading teacher, you are probably already doing this work, maybe you just haven’t named it for students.  When you ask students to make connections to the main character, you are asking them to do heart work. They have to look within themselves, first know about themselves as humans, before they can connect to a text in any way. An interactive read aloud provides not only practice of reading skills, but also leaves us, the community of readers, with a moral, lesson or theme that impacts our

Print this as a reminder to choose joy each day in your classroom. Read more about choosing joy on my substack here. From the newsletter: "If you haven’t already, find that one small thing you can do with your students every single day that will spark joy and keep you all going. Maybe it’s a quick game of Wordle. Or a good morning dance off. Or something your students creatively come up with together. We all need more joy inside the four walls of our classrooms. Now more than ever!"

Looking for a way to boost morale and increase students' confidence during test taking season? Look no further! Invite students to sing about taking the test right before they take the test.  Take Our Test is sung to the tune of Be Our Guest from Beauty and the Beast. It can be sung chorally right before your students take a test. When we have students sing together while displaying the lyrics, we not only boost fluency and decoding skills but we also boost their morale during test taking sea