Welcome to Literacy Voices, where our experts share instructional strategies with teachers.
You'll find practical classroom tips from real educators, personal stories, and innovative approaches to improving your teaching practice, and tools you can use immediately.
Welcome to Literacy Voices, where our experts share instructional strategies with teachers. You'll find practical classroom tips from real educators, personal stories and innovative approaches to improving your teaching practice, and tools you can use immediately.
The key to success for beginning readers is recognizing high-frequency words. One of the first hurdles a beginning reader must overcome when learning to read is...
Guided Reading Grades 3-5 contains some of the elements of guided reading in the Primary Grades (K-2). When working with students at higher Grades (3-5) the tea...
Join literacy consultant Debra Crouch as she shares a big book with a San Diego Kindergarten class. This Shared Reading Kindergarten lesson introductory session...
In this shared reading for kindergarten follow-up lesson Debra again models her thinking and invites students to turn-and-talk several times during their second...
In this installment with Debra Crouch, she and her students revisit the text to focus on vocabulary in this shared reading for kindergartners lesson —specific...
Before the video begins, Debra had students draw and write a response to the book: write about a pet you think is best. After collecting the students’ writing...
This modeled writing kindergarten lesson gives children an opportunity to hear a writer decide what to write about, how to say the ideas to be written and to no...
Watch as Debra demonstrates a whole group instruction kindergarten class.
This lesson happened just before the first reading of Which Pet is Best? The book h...
Watch as Debra leads a reading lesson with a small group of kindergarten children. She invites each child to look at the pictures in the book and asks them 'ope...
