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Full Day Kindergarten?

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middle school reading specialists are spread too thin and don't have time to actually work with students and/or teachers 

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middle school reading specialists are spread too thin and don't have time to actually work with students and/or teachers 

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Use SKYPE to talk to authors. Allow students to develop "interview" questions based on the skills they're working on.

Make writing more Fun!

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Encourage teachers to build their own Mentor Text favorites.  Encourage teachers to write sticky notes on the front of each book, or inside the book, the skill(s) that book helps with.  For example:  Honoring Speech, Metaphors/Similes, Personification, etc.

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Implement Lucy Calkins Reading and Writing units along with ongoing staff development to teach these.  Not just hand teachers the materials.

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Implement Lucy Calkins Reading and Writing units along with ongoing staff development to teach these.  Not just hand teachers the materials.

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Students need to have success in their reading.  I have taken the time to share individually with each student the beautiful skills and successes they have achieved in their reading by keeping a portfolio.  Self-reflection is critical to their growth and pride in their reading and writing.
Feedback gives them hope and faith that they can achieve.

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Teachers know all students' reading levels early in the year to to ensure opportunities to develop reading ability & motivation to choose reading.

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Teachers know all students' reading levels early in the year to to ensure opportunities to develop reading ability & motivation to choose reading.

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Time for Reading Specialists to meet with teachers to discuss student progress and collaborate on next steps on a weekly basis.

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Time for Reading Specialists to meet with teachers to discuss student progress and collaborate on next steps on a weekly basis.

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Assessments at the state level need to change to reflect the changes in the classroom

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Assessments at the state level need to change to reflect the changes in the classroom

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Provide more opportunities for children to free write and read without attaching a grade to everything they do.

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Allow time for the love of reading and writing to come through

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Allow time for the love of reading and writing to come through

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More celebration of the similarities in the patterns of thought for literacy across disciplines and purposes.

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More celebration of the similarities in the patterns of thought for literacy across disciplines and purposes.

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Workshop model--Reader and writer's notebook

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Workshop model--Reader and writer's notebook

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Highly engaging with opportunities for all to participate

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Highly engaging with opportunities for all to participate

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Have enough materials, to be able to meet the needs of all students in the classroom no matter what their reading levels are, and teach them to have confidence in themselves as readers and writers 

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Have enough materials, to be able to meet the needs of all students in the classroom no matter what their reading levels are, and teach them to have confidence in themselves as readers and writers 

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Meet the needs of lower level readers more effectively

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Meet the needs of lower level readers more effectively

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Bring real authors into the classroom across the curricular areas.

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Bring real authors into the classroom across the curricular areas.

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Bring back Reader's Workshop Model within the classroom.  Encourage more student choice with reading.  Alleviate the pressure elementary classroom teachers feel about the constraints of completing Reading Street units (b/c they are never able to get through the entire year.

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Bring back Reader's Workshop Model within the classroom.  Encourage more student choice with reading.  Alleviate the pressure elementary classroom teachers feel about the constraints of completing Reading Street units (b/c they are never able to get through the entire year.

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Give every student the time to develop at their own pace

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Give every student the time to develop at their own pace

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Getting and instructional and independent level on every reader

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Getting and instructional and independent level on every reader

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Use of authentic texts in reading and writing
true data driven instruction

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Students reading real literature and having discussions that at relevant, meaningful, and strategies based.  Encourage and support the love of reading for all students.

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Students reading real literature and having discussions that at relevant, meaningful, and strategies based.  Encourage and support the love of reading for all students.

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involvement with teachers in being more diagnostic about each students' level and needs for moving their students along. 

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involvement with teachers in being more diagnostic about each students' level and needs for moving their students along. 

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teach literacy.
Skills not texts.
More opportunities for kids to practice - low stakes not high stakes

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Use mentor texts to provide examples of excellent writing. In this way, students will be exposed to a variety of writing genres.

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Use mentor texts to provide examples of excellent writing. In this way, students will be exposed to a variety of writing genres.

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Professional Development for Teaching Writing

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Professional Development for Teaching Writing

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Daily opportunities for students to read independently for an extensive period of time depending on their developmental levels.

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Daily opportunities for students to read independently for an extensive period of time depending on their developmental levels.

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Block scheduling- I can't cram it all into 45 minutes a day 

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Block scheduling- I can't cram it all into 45 minutes a day 

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Build in time for teacher book clubs (professional AND recreational) as well as student book clubs with no attached formal assessment.

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Build in time for teacher book clubs (professional AND recreational) as well as student book clubs with no attached formal assessment.

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Allow kids to discuss serious "adult" topics in higher grade levels (ex: they read To Kill a Mockingbird, but never really talk about race)

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Allow kids to discuss serious "adult" topics in higher grade levels (ex: they read To Kill a Mockingbird, but never really talk about race)

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Opportunities for PD on ways to help teachers feel comfortable in teaching writing through a Writer's Workshop model. Therefore, their passion will "trickle down" to their students.  If we write and have a passion for it, it will come across.

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Changes to the Curriculum to allow for more freedom, choice, and interest to be integrated for students