Magic Wand--- Literacy Wishes by Hilary https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l If you had a magic wand, what would you change about literacy instruction in your practice/building? en-us 2017-01-12 17:21:50 UTC 2017-01-26 17:05:13 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149637948 Changes to the Curriculum to allow for more freedom, choice, and interest to be integrated for students]]> 2017-01-26 15:42:42 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149637948 https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149638292 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.

]]> 2017-01-26 15:43:22 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149638292 Allow kids to discuss serious "adult" topics in higher grade levels (ex: they read To Kill a Mockingbird, but never really talk about race) https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149638405 2017-01-26 15:43:34 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149638405 Frequent assessment of reading levels https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149638503 2017-01-26 15:43:47 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149638503 Teach skills not stories https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149638532 2017-01-26 15:43:52 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149638532 Build in time for teacher book clubs (professional AND recreational) as well as student book clubs with no attached formal assessment. https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149638542 2017-01-26 15:43:53 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149638542 authentic text https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149638739 2017-01-26 15:44:14 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149638739 Block scheduling- I can't cram it all into 45 minutes a day https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149638898 2017-01-26 15:44:32 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149638898 Daily opportunities for students to read independently for an extensive period of time depending on their developmental levels. https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149638924 2017-01-26 15:44:36 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149638924 Professional Development for Teaching Writing https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149638947 2017-01-26 15:44:39 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149638947 Use mentor texts to provide examples of excellent writing. In this way, students will be exposed to a variety of writing genres. https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149638951 2017-01-26 15:44:40 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149638951 Allowing everyone to https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149638975 teach literacy. 
Skills not texts.
More opportunities for kids to practice - low stakes not high stakes]]> 2017-01-26 15:44:44 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149638975 Engaging and meaningful https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149638994 2017-01-26 15:44:47 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149638994 involvement with teachers in being more diagnostic about each students' level and needs for moving their students along. https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639045 2017-01-26 15:44:55 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639045 Students reading real literature and having discussions that at relevant, meaningful, and strategies based. Encourage and support the love of reading for all students. https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639123 2017-01-26 15:45:05 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639123 Getting and instructional and independent level on every reader https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639181 Use of authentic texts in reading and writing
true data driven instruction]]> 2017-01-26 15:45:11 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639181 Give every student the time to develop at their own pace https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639226 2017-01-26 15:45:19 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639226 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. https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639263 2017-01-26 15:45:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639263 Bring real authors into the classroom across the curricular areas. https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639396 2017-01-26 15:45:43 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639396 Meet the needs of lower level readers more effectively https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639484 2017-01-26 15:45:51 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639484 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 https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639547 2017-01-26 15:45:59 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639547 Highly engaging with opportunities for all to participate https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639573 2017-01-26 15:46:02 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639573 Workshop model--Reader and writer's notebook https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639586 2017-01-26 15:46:05 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639586 More celebration of the similarities in the patterns of thought for literacy across disciplines and purposes. https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639625 2017-01-26 15:46:09 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639625 congruent assessmen https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639684 2017-01-26 15:46:15 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639684 Allow time for the love of reading and writing to come through https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639898 2017-01-26 15:46:41 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639898 Writer's workshop https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639902 2017-01-26 15:46:41 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639902 https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639974 Provide more opportunities for children to free write and read without attaching a grade to everything they do. ]]> 2017-01-26 15:46:49 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149639974 Assessments at the state level need to change to reflect the changes in the classroom https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149640021 2017-01-26 15:46:54 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149640021 Time for Reading Specialists to meet with teachers to discuss student progress and collaborate on next steps on a weekly basis. https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149640094 2017-01-26 15:47:03 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149640094 Teachers know all students' reading levels early in the year to to ensure opportunities to develop reading ability & motivation to choose reading. https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149640157 2017-01-26 15:47:10 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149640157 lgallagh https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149640538 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.

]]> 2017-01-26 15:47:56 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149640538 Writer's Workshop using Lucy Calkins! https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149640698 2017-01-26 15:48:14 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149640698 CHOICE https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149640734 2017-01-26 15:48:17 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149640734 https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149641007 2017-01-26 15:48:52 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149641007 Implement Lucy Calkins Reading and Writing units along with ongoing staff development to teach these. Not just hand teachers the materials. https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149641252 2017-01-26 15:49:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149641252 https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149641535 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.

]]> 2017-01-26 15:50:00 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149641535 https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149642304 Use SKYPE to talk to authors. Allow students to develop "interview" questions based on the skills they're working on.

Make writing more Fun!

]]> 2017-01-26 15:51:41 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149642304 middle school reading specialists are spread too thin and don't have time to actually work with students and/or teachers https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149645504 2017-01-26 15:58:24 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149645504 https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149674210 Full Day Kindergarten?]]> 2017-01-26 17:05:08 UTC https://padlet.com/hczaplic/5n0xshea164l/wish/149674210