The last few weeks in PreK for our youngest grandsons has been full of learning. I’m sharing images with a few brief comments. A few weeks ago we sampled, measured and sketched drawings of different kinds of apples. We read the Gail Gibbons book about apples (I chose specific pages to share as it’s a …
What our global community has experienced since the new year began, is unprecedented. Three months ago, no one knew that SARS-CoV-2 existed. Now the virus has spread to almost every country, infecting at least 446,000 people whom we know about, and many more whom we do not. It has crashed economies and broken health-care systems, …
So often when kids are working to recognize and regulate their own emotions, adults step in to tell or even dictate what kids need to do. Our Scholabox team chose to share resources for teachers and families to facilitate discussions, writing, reading, inquiry experiences for kids all around Emotional Intelligence. During this really tricky time …
A pivotal point in a reader’s journey is when she realizes, either intuitively or explicitly, that the goal of reading is to obtain meaning. Understanding the goal of reading moves our students from Reading as Compliance to Reading as Learning — a critical shift. —Dave Stuart Reading for meaning should be the goal for all readers. It …
Reading books aloud to kids can be one of the most powerful practices in your classroom or, for that matter, your home. There’s much for us, families and educators, to appreciate about the read-aloud. This post will be short, but hopefully informative in a “reminder” kind of way. Here for our benefit, quotes from professional …
I posted on FB and Twitter that our family has a monthly subscription box for teachers. For the next three weeks, we are making our instructional guides and family guides available to you free from ScholaBoxThe instructional guide includes articles, media, poetry, that kids can access online. There are writing response prompts, discussion questions and …
This blog post was first published a few years ago. In the last two months, I’ve had the conversation about whether teaching kindergarten students to read is developmentally inappropriate at least a dozen times. Teachers worry that they are putting too much pressure on young kids to read too soon. It’s time to repost. Recently …
Fifteen years ago in preparation to facilitate a PD session for teachers, I spent hours reading everything I could about text structure in expository texts. I was struck by how much I learned and how little I’d done to adequately prepare students to recognize and use knowledge of the types of structures authors use in …
This is a repost of a blog entry from a few years ago. I needed to put this back out there again after a difficult encounter this semester where a teacher repeatedly told me how lazy his students were. I know teaching is hard. We have the privilege and responsibility to look at kids with …
This post was first published three years ago and I feel a need to re-post. Curious if anything had appeared on the internet about one of my beloved teachers, I did a quick search on the web and found this from the J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 33, Ed. 1. Friday, July 11, 1930: …
