Welcome to my Class

Donalyn Miller

“The single factor most strongly associated with reading achievement- more than socioeconomic status or any instructional approach- is independent reading.” – Steven Krashen, The Power of Reading

"Regular reading not only boosts the likelihood of an individual’s academic and economic success—facts that are not especially surprising—but it also seems to awaken a person’s social and civic sense.” – “To Read or Not to Read”- NEA 2007

Scrapbooking?

My marathon

If the act of reading is the most important for future success, then my goal is to create students who genuinely want to read; otherwise, they might fall off the wagon down the road.

Reading Buy-In

Why do kids hate writing?

Writing

Audience

The Big Three

Purpose

Authenticity

Writing is the easiest subject to critique even though it’s so complex.

-punctuation, capitalization, grammar, spelling, word choice, ideas expansion, complete sentences, voice, authenticity, editing, revising, homonym, homophone, homographs, paragraph structure, sentence structure…

Biggest Challenge

As a teacher I often think, “Don’t you see this mistake?”

Writing is hard to gauge unlike math

Math= addition>multiplication>fractions>algebra> geometry>trigonometry>calculus>ForReal?

In the end, writing is a path with steps to mastery.

Feeling self-conscious can ruin any creativity and motivation to develop mastery. (focus on one thing max)

With Time

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We’re working towards better writing with fewer mistakes. They will improve.

Please leave a comment on a couple posts when you visit.

Bigger audiences lead to more motivation.

Blogging

What Drives us?

• Autonomy - we all long to be autonomous - to have control over our lives and destiny. To the extent that we don't have autonomy we feel something missing.

• Mastery. We need to learn to master the tasks we are undertaking.

• Purpose. We need to "buy in" to why we are doing things. There needs to be a reason.

Bucket Filling Pirates Gold Self-Monitoring(until intervention is needed) Created our own rules and consequences Bathroom breaks/snacks

How?

Homework

Time?

Did they get it in school?

Bad practices if misunderstand

Lost ability for self-development

Considerations

10 minute per grade max

Signature if confused or no time

Student choice

Homework will come home when the teachers feel the students understand

What now?

Our School Day

Brain Breaks

Reading Time

Consider reading a chapter book at the same time as your child

Read a book that they have already read (take recommendations)

Read a book together at night

Read aloud a book

Share a book

2 teachers

Computers

Games

Math workshop

Mystery Skype

https://clubs2.scholastic.com/ Or google “Scholastic Book Club”

Scholastic Online

Parent Screen

My Scholastic note/Wish-list

Google 20% time

Figure out a passion or a wonder

Develop a question about that

Think of a project to answer your curiousity

Passion Projects

Shared Standards – Government

Not shared standards- flipped concept.

Social Studies

STEM

Inquiry/ Experiments/ Wonderopolis

Edmodo to share videos/ assignments

Science

Let’s keep in touch

Share pictures for event

Share classroom news

Contact information

Shutterfly

Group text messages

I can include photos/voice

Emergency items

Remind

Follow me- @BezeauClass

https://twitter.com/bezeauclass

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Important documents/websites/ last minute news

Twitter

#parenting #parents #ptchat #edchat #parentadvice #edtech We could even make our own classroom

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Great Parent Hashtags

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