After An Educator's Journey
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Once upon a time, I taught 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders. Now I’m retired and working on new ventures.
Author: amybisson
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With about 400 books that were previously unleveled now identified by genre and reading level, I was feeling pretty good about the progress in the classroom library. Machine-like, I’ve been able to go through 2 or 3 boxes of books on the white book shelves each morning. Last night, however, as I was checking on…
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The lists of books that need to be leveled has been completed! That would, under normal circumstances be something to celebrate; however, right now things feel pretty overwhelming. The nightly task of typing a book title into, first Scholastic Book Wizard, and then one or more of the other databases is quite tedious. Many of…
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This week – and most likely next – has been spent in the tedious exercise of listing any book in the classroom that will remain in the students’ library. Coming from a lower grade level, I am amazed at the quantity of books that I have for Reading Levels A-J…. too many in fact. So…
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Recording titles and determining genre is a piece of cake next to leveling books, at least that’s what I think. Last week I generated about 10 pages of titles — all of which need to be leveled. As my good friend Mickie pointed out — it is a massive amount of work. My current strategy…
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I love the picture that is the banner for this website. Somehow, this image symbolizes how it often feels when learning or trying something new — like blogging. Clearly there is a pathway that can/should be followed, but often that pathway is partially obscured. The way is not always clear; there can be expected and…
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So many interesting ideas for categorizing books! I have, however, come to a decision about how to categorize the literature in 207’s classroom library. An important component of Third Grade Literacy is exposure to different genres. For me, I need to know that after giving a book talk or exposing children to a particular genre,…
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What is that expression?…. No good deed goes unpunished. This morning — March 9, 2009 — I had intended to arrive a bit early in order to start taking stock of the classroom books. Full of energy and fresh off of a beautiful spring weekend (temperatures in the 60s), I was committed to doing a…
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Thinking about how to organize books for students and figuring out the best way for your classroom is quite a challenge. Many people are pretty adamant about what should and shouldn’t be done; it makes my head spin sometimes. I’ve been reading a couple of interesting websites about how other teachers have decided to organize…
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I have no clue as to how things got so chaotic. Well, that’s not entirely true…. I think my organizational systems are so complex that the average 9 year-old might just have a tad bit of difficulty deciphering just what that organization is. Here is the “ugly”: I have 2 main book areas for the…
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So, I am getting close(r) to the end of my teaching career — I’m old enough to be looking wistfully as my colleagues begin to retire, but not ready to admit I should be quitting. I was looking around at the disheveled mess in my room – especially the book libraries – and began thinking…
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