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A Day in a Kindergarten Classroom

by: Tiffany Brosig

How to Rock Your Close Reading Lessons

Close reading is so painful! If this is how you feel about close reading, then this blog post is for you. I love to teach close reading, and I’ve been doing it long enough now that I’ve got a system in place that works very well for my students. I hope this post gives you some good information to take back to your classroom. I’ll also share a close reading freebie at the end! Here’s  the basic procedure that I use for every close reading lesson: Introduce and Predict Introduce the title of the

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by: Tiffany Brosig

Alphabet Intervention that Works

The beginning of the school year is upon us. For kindergarten teachers, that means back to basics. We all know that many kinders come in knowing zero letters, while others come in reading up a storm. Did you know that according to Richard Allington, students who enter kindergarten knowing fewer than 40 letters (upper and lower combined) are already a year below grade level? Crazy isn’t it? Below grade level before even starting school! Not only that–Allington also asserts that ALL kindergarten students, regardless of socioeconomic status or literacy in

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by: Tiffany Brosig

How to do an Author Study

Nothing motivates my students like reading book after book from the same beloved author. Mo Willems, David Shannon, Kevin Henkes, Ezra Jack Keats, Jan Brett, and Tomie DePaola are just a few of our favorite authors. I absolutely LOVE doing author studies with my students. For one, we get to know authors and understand their work on a much deeper level. When the students connect to the writer, they love the stories even more! When I talk about doing author studies, some people seem to think it’s a big complicated

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by: Tiffany Brosig

A Day with Jan Richardson

OK. If you follow K Teacher Talk on Facebook, you know that I have been wayyy too geeked out about seeing Jan Richardson today. I have been using Jan’s format in my classroom for the last 3 or 4 years now and I love it! Before Reading her book The Next Step in Guided Reading, my guided reading instruction felt scattered. It has since clicked for me and I will never go back! I love the Jan Plan! You can read my original posts about it here and here. So, on

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by: Tiffany Brosig

The Jan Plan, Part II

I’m back for another post about guided reading using Jan Richardson’s book, The Next Step in Guided Reading. Her format really does help you get the most out of that short chunk of guided reading time. Today, I’m going to show you what an emergent reading lesson looks like. This is the format followed for levels A-C. The instructional focus will change depending on students’ needs, but the overall organization and procedures will be the same. Part One-Sight word review We begin the lesson by doing a quick review of

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by: Tiffany Brosig

Why I Love “The Jan Plan”

Guided reading used to be a struggle for me. I understood the concepts, read the books on the subject, and implemented guided reading in my classroom, but I just felt like something was missing. It kind of looked like this: “I’m done with the book, Mrs. Brosig!” “OK…um…just read it again! for the 99th time…” Or: “Let’s talk about this eight-sentence book for ‘comprehension’ purposes for a while…like a LONG while!” Or: “Hey! I found these worksheets on Reading A-Z so they must be great!” (not knocking Reading A-Z…I totally

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