Ask: What is happening in this picture? What time of year is it? How do you know? What are the clues? Blog Post: How to Use the Inference Images My Inference Pictures
Inference Image: Balloon
Three Fun Ways to Teach Inference
Inference is a crucial skill not only in reading and academics but in life in general. I focus on it a lot with students – and with my own kids – because I want the thought process to become a
Exit Tickets
Recently I got in a conversation with some teachers about use of exit tickets, which seem to be a relatively common instructional strategy. As we talked, we were surprised to realize several of us had made the same mistake when
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Horrible, No Good Teaching Day, aka Advice for New Teachers
It was a Friday, and it was raining…
Teacher Jackpot
This morning I volunteered in my daughter’s 3rd grade classroom and also spent a few minutes in my son’s 2nd grade classroom. It was the first chance I’d had to see their classrooms in action. Last year I wrote about