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We are starting The One and Only Ivan tomorrow, which means that we looked at new See-Think-Wonder pictures and anticipation statements today! I love showing my kids these, telling them that each one connects to our novel, and watching them make predictions. I leave these up throughout the book for us to refer back to. #iteachtoo #iteachfourth #teachergram #teachersofinstagram #readaloud

I love when ideas I come up with at the last minute end up working out! On Wednesday I had an extra 15 minutes to fill and decided to have kids make cards for our word wall using their spelling words for the week. This area will be a great place for kids to reference as we work on prefixes and suffixes. We also started practicing RACES for writing responses to texts, and today I had them try the first two parts of the acronym (restate and answer) on their own. It helped me see where everyone was at individually and displaying some of the model answers will help reinforce what our writing should look like! #keepitsimple #iteachfourth #iteachtoo #teachersofinstagram #teachergram

The second wave of Amulet fever has struck our classroom! I currently have three girls who just finished the first book and tensions were a little high when they realized I only have two copies of the second 😂 but them fighting over books is a wonderful problem to have! #kidsarereading #iteachtoo #iteachfourth #readingrocks #teachersofinstagram

None of my pictures this year have been cute but WHATEVER. I stole this idea from @thetownieteacher and adapted it for my students. Every day after we read from our class novel, one of the classes recaps what we read by “tweeting” about it. We’ve gotten into the routine and now they ask when they’re going to “do the hashtags!” 😂 It’s also a good way for them to practice pulling out the most important ideas/events, and for me to get yet another check into who is struggling to understand the book! #iteachfourth #readaloud #iteachtoo #teachergram

We started our first novel this week and it is going so well! I also saw kids filling in their 40 Book Challenge trackers, and today on the way to lunch I overheard two girls arguing about the characters in a book series they both have read. This school year is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but I’m really excited to see how these kids are growing as readers. #iteachfourth #teachergram #teachersofinstagram #teacherlife #iteachtoo

This little white board has become my read aloud life saver! I’ve found that this group needs a *little* more structure, so I use this space to keep track of our questions, vocabulary, sentence stems, and hand signals when we are on the carpet. I use the back (it’s double sided!) whenever I need another space to write on and keep the information up for the kids. I use it the most when I’m modeling revision during our mentor sentence routine. The best part was that it was free—another teacher was giving it away! #iteachfourth #classroomorganization #readaloud #teachergram #teacherlife

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