Jivey shares ideas and lessons to make literacy accessible for all.
Inferring Reading between the lines… putting clues together to solve a mystery… whatever you may call it, I’m sure you will agree, students need a lot of practice with inferring! A great mentor text to use for this very skill is The Stranger by Chris… [continue reading]
Upper grades had them first, then second and first grade teachers got them… I couldn’t leave out my kinder friends, now could I?? Mentor sentences for emergent readers look VERY different than the other grades, so I’d like to take some time to talk about… [continue reading]
I am so excited to announce that there are OFFICIALLY mentor sentences for every elementary grade! Grades 3-5 had them first– and they now have two complete volumes to choose from… then second grade got them, and these can be implemented into first grade with… [continue reading]
One of the most common struggles teachers face is tackling TIME. There simply isn’t enough of it to cover all the skills and standards we need to teach! One way to address this problem is to integrate as much as possible. Being able to address… [continue reading]
If you’ve been a teacher within the last decade, you know the word “DIFFERENTIATION” isn’t just the latest and greatest buzzword. It’s crucial across all subjects to be able to meet the needs of the different learners in your class. For a teacher just starting… [continue reading]
I am teaming up with The Reading Crew to bring you all you need to teach some amazing mentor text lessons this fall! Does your school participate in Read For The Record? It’s on October 27, 2016, and this year’s book is such a fun one! Even… [continue reading]
I am SO excited to be joining the Get Your Teach On family for the Level Up conference!!
Instructional pain points? You've got them. We'll show you how to solve them. It's time to Level Up your classroom: bit.ly/jiveygyto
GYTO built a conference to address the specific standards and needs that teachers across the country identified as power standards. Join the Get Your Teach On team as we give you strategic ways to teach them in your virtual, hybrid, or face to face classroom- complete with a full lesson plan, the digital/printable resources to be able to implement immediately, and assessments to check for mastery for each of them!
We know that another pain point for educators is time. So we wanted to save you as much of that as possible. This conference features micro sessions and/or model lessons that are 15-20 minutes for each power standard addressed.
Registration is open: bit.ly/jiveygyto
So who's ready for a quick and easy way to Level Up your classroom? Comment below if you're looking forward to connecting through GYTO!
Analyzing primary sources and discussing persuasive language are a couple skills included in just one of the several lessons in the weeklong unit to go along with the NONFICTION mentor text, Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet!
It would be perfect to use next week before the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, and it's on sale through Tuesday!
www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Balloons-Over-Broadway-Mentor-Text-Unit-for-Grades-3-5-Distan...
You'll be able to share the history of the parade with students, and get in a ton of informational standards, too.
WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS UNIT?
🎈a week of plans that teach text structure, primary sources, analyzing photos, and vivid verbs using the book, Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet (book not included)
🎈detailed explicit lessons, including teacher samples a week-at-a-glance plan
🎈digitally converted activities in Google Slides, when applicable
🎈mentor sentence lesson teaching vivid verbs
🎈reading lessons to teach chronology, compare & contrast, cause & effect, and problem & solution
🎈writing lessons to examine language of primary source advertisements, and then design their own newspaper advertisement
🎈writing lessons to analyze photographs, and then write from the point of view of someone in the photograph
🎈compare & contrast constructed response activity with primary source photographs
🎈two original informational articles about the Macy's Parade (written by me)
🎈printables for skill practice
🎈graphic organizers for skill practice
🎈evidence-based terms list and poster
🎈text structures poster
🎈short assessments
Grab it now and you’ll have all of your ELA lessons done for you (in digital and print formats) for just $4, on sale through Tuesday!
www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Balloons-Over-Broadway-Mentor-Text-Unit-for-Grades-3-5-Distan...
