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Breaking Up is Hard to Do

I broke up with Lucy Calkins this year. I fully severed the ties when I threw my Art of Teaching Reading book into the garbage. I threw it into the trash at school, so I couldn’t dig through the garbage and rescue it. All of my blog posts so far have been aimed at giving tips, spreading information, and helping

Alphabet Knowledge, Phonemic Awareness, Teaching Tips

Keys to Kindergarten Success

How comfortable are you with writing the letter e? I think, at this point in our lives, we’re pretty solid. Since we are so good at it, we could probably teach it to others, right? How would you explain writing the letter e to a child who is just learning their letters? “You start kind-of halfway down the line.

Phonics, Teaching Tips

Teaching Heart Words

Sight words. High-frequency words. Red Words. Heart words. Who cares what they are called as long as your kids learn them, right? And to a certain degree you are right. But, I do think there are some key differences. So, let’s talk vocabulary and then get to the good stuff—how we teach them to our children. I used to think

Science of Reading, Teaching Tips

Introductions are in order

I’ve started and stopped this first post several times. The idea of putting myself out there as some kind of expert in the Science of Reading is not only daunting, it’s just wrong. I’d like to start by saying I’m not an expert—I’m not a researcher, a published author, or a professor. I do not stand on the shoulders

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