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Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Doors 📚
Last year's Diverse Reads Campaign gave good results but demonstrated there was great potential for growth. Although we saw a great...
V. Sanz
Apr 24, 20222 min read
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Diverse Reads: Authentic Voices All Year Long
Reading is Powerful, no doubt. Even more when is intentional. The goal of the Diverse Reads campaign is to help/entice/challenge teachers...
V. Sanz
May 3, 20211 min read
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Digital Interactive Slides as Checks for Understanding
This school year will go in history, we were faced with unique sets of challenges and opportunities to transform our teaching practice....
V. Sanz
May 2, 20211 min read
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Let's Talk About Books 🎬
Last year we started the Book Talks series, the idea was to help every student to become book reviewers. Giving them an audience and...
V. Sanz
Dec 29, 20191 min read
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Venture Beyond. Student's Blogs 📚💻🌎
There is a special kind of excitement that tingles when you are about to embark in a new adventure. As a teacher, I want to be excited...
V. Sanz
Apr 22, 20193 min read
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Literary Non Fiction & Context
Giving purpose and context to our students always helps with engagement and for them to connect their learning. While we are focusing in...
V. Sanz
Feb 28, 20192 min read
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How to... The Importance of Procedures
Procedural text is frequently difficult for students to comprehend; they usually identifying and following sequential steps. In order to...
V. Sanz
Jan 27, 20192 min read
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Poetry Menu
Teaching poetry could be so much fun, but it also difficult to really dig deep into the meaning of poems. Often, students just enjoy the...
V. Sanz
Jan 19, 20192 min read
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Book Talks: Tell me About your Book
I firmly believe that books talk to us and help shape us, we eventually become what we read. Every child is one book away of fall in love...
V. Sanz
Dec 15, 20182 min read
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Expository Text & Inferencing
Inferencing is probably one of the most difficult comprehension skills to teach. Students struggle to make inferences about graphic...
V. Sanz
Nov 12, 20181 min read
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Ask the Expert: 4th Graders interview Chris Barton 🎤 🎥
What a better way to get an insight on the writing process, than asking a published author himself? Our wonderful librarian arranged...
V. Sanz
Nov 10, 20181 min read
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Learning Menus: Take One
Give options and you'll be amazed. Week 3. This week we were working in Text Features and Graphic Sources. I wanted my students to...
V. Sanz
Sep 7, 20182 min read
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