Genre wall in classroom

I love encouraging my students to explore a variety of genres, but sometimes that means I need to explicitly teach them about the genres first! These free genre posters are the perfect way to do just that!

Yes, it has it's own board on my Pinterest account. I used to be embarrassed by how fascinated and excited I was about classroom libraries. I paroused thrift stores, hit up retiring teachers, and planned my weekends around library book sales for months leading up to my first year in the classroom. By the time

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Here is my Reading Focus Wall! This will be a change for me this year. I had been displaying the CAFE headers and strategies, but I've moved away from this a bit over the last handful of years. This wall includes genre posters {from Kelly Bates - HERE} and comprehension cards {from Teri at A Cupcake for the Teacher - HERE}. The Focus Wall poster is a part of our Journeys reading program and is changed out each week. I have a pad of sticky note stars that I will be using to mark the genre and…

From the moment students enter the classroom, they should feel excited to dig into books and reading instruction. There are ways we make our classroom visually inviting to new readers, as well as back to

Have you ever wondered about the difference between a Word Wall and a Sound Wall in the elementary classroom. This blog post dives into the details on both. Find out what each is and how you can use both of these tools to help your students. Both a word wall and sound wall can help your students improve their phonics skills and reading abilities. A word wall can also help improve vocabulary, spelling and writing. Head over and read this blog post for all of the details.

Y'all...it's been a crazy beginning of the year. I know you know what I mean. It usually doesn't take me this long to adjust to the BTS routine...but this year it's taken me a little bit longer. Needl