Are We Having Fun Yet?
A Fight For Our Below Level Readers
Each week, on my outside bulletin board, I will display a paragraph, sprinkled with a few missing letters, and ask the question, What do you think the title of the book could be?
The following week, I will display the answer (the title) and hang up a new paragraph.
I am very excited about this.
An interactive bulletin board with a focus on main idea and phonics — just what administration ordered.
My last week of work. I received an email from my principal asking me to join him and our two assistant principals to discuss the language arts special, the class I will be teaching during the 2022–2023 school year.
Third grade reading scores were back. It showed that many of our students are not proficient readers. I wasn’t surprised. I worked with second graders and substituted in other grade levels. I knew.
After reviewing the data, administration concluded that next year’s language arts special needed to focus on main idea and phonics.
I listened.
I was ready to start reading and thinking and brainstorming ideas to make this thirty minute special meaningful. I will see each class, kindergarten through grade five, for three…
