My Dream Classroom by Liz Horvet https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83 The Perfect Vocabulary Rich ELA Classroom en-us 2021-11-21 21:19:35 UTC 2025-11-15 18:44:11 UTC hello@padlet.com A classroom with comfy chairs and bean bags and lots of places to read and think. Liz_Horvet https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904813479 2021-11-21 21:30:17 UTC https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904813479 Mixed media and an explosion of words. I like the cup of pens with suggestions of what to write and think about attached to them. Special purpose pens. Liz_Horvet https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904814413 2021-11-21 21:31:59 UTC https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904814413 A steam punk word wall to get the gears of the mind a-whirring and engaging. Liz_Horvet https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904816391 It's an elephant in a smoking jacket, with an aviator's helmet (with goggles.) I don't live in a world where elephants wear smoking jackets and aviator's helmets (with or without goggles.) But that's why I'm a writer (as well as a reader and a teacher) -- because wouldn't a world with elephants in jackets and goggle helmets be a wonderful place to visit? ]]> 2021-11-21 21:35:04 UTC https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904816391 Brag tags are cool. Liz_Horvet https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904817182 Sometimes students don't have anyone to brag about them. I like being the one they can count on. ]]> 2021-11-21 21:36:28 UTC https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904817182 "The more you read the more you will know. The more things you learn the more places you will go!" Dr. Seuss. Liz_Horvet https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904819027 A book is a universe of untold wonders. Oh, the places she will go!]]> 2021-11-21 21:39:55 UTC https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904819027 Words have power. Liz_Horvet https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904820516 I always get some rolled eyes when I say to my students, "Be a do-er, not a don't-er." And sure, there's no such thing, really, as a don't-er. But it's fun to be able to create words that, while not technically real, still convey meaning.  When you become an expert at words, the world becomes a little more magical.


]]> 2021-11-21 21:42:50 UTC https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904820516 What a library this would be. Okay, I admit -- I'm a Ravenclaw. We're book nerds. But wouldn't this be the most dreamy library? Liz_Horvet https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904826932 2021-11-21 21:54:39 UTC https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904826932 Not a single smartphone in sight! Liz_Horvet https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904827336 2021-11-21 21:55:25 UTC https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904827336 This is the musician Sting. He was in the punk band The Police. This poster was in every library in the mid 1980s. It had a BIG effect on literacy in my school. Not only was he an awesome musician, but an intellect and a bibliophile? Liz_Horvet https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904828473 2021-11-21 21:57:29 UTC https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904828473 I first came across the idea of a reading tent when we toured an alternative school for my daughter. Some students, it was explained, sometimes needed to separate from too much 'people time' and close off in a separate world to read. That was a great idea to me. Liz_Horvet https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904829942 2021-11-21 21:59:46 UTC https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904829942 That Einstein guy... so what if he sometimes forgot to wear pants. He invented the theory of relativity. Liz_Horvet https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904831627 2021-11-21 22:02:42 UTC https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904831627 Reading to animals is a great way for shy readers to develop their skills. Animals are wonderful, non judgmental audiences. Liz_Horvet https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904834648 2021-11-21 22:08:34 UTC https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904834648 More reading with animals. Dogs do not laugh when you make mistakes with words. Instead, they kiss your nose and want to know what happens next! And this lucky young lady is reading to a rottweiler, and we all know that rottweilers are the greatest dogs ever. My daughter used to read to our rottweiler, Ursa. And Ursa loved their reading sessions. Liz_Horvet https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904835096 2021-11-21 22:09:37 UTC https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904835096 "And then what happened?" Liz_Horvet https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904836175 2021-11-21 22:11:43 UTC https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904836175 More on reading to dogs! This is a link to a wonderful article. My daughter used to practice reading to our dog and our cats when she was in kindergarten. By third grade, she was reading 400 page novels (The Warriors series about feral cat clans.) I think Ursa, Rocket J, Thelonious and Mingus had a profound effect on her. They loved reading time. Liz_Horvet https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904839257 2021-11-21 22:17:35 UTC https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1904839257 Clasic horror films come from classic literature. Radcliffe, Shelly, Beckford, Poe, Stoker all stoked the fires of the imagination. Halloween is a fun time for reading... Liz_Horvet https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1906247447 2021-11-22 14:34:46 UTC https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1906247447 Susan Hill is a flawless writer. The Woman in Black is a modern classic. This is a phenomenal word wall idea! Liz_Horvet https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1906252352 2021-11-22 14:36:35 UTC https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1906252352 Suddenly there came a tapping... Liz_Horvet https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1906255834 2021-11-22 14:37:54 UTC https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1906255834 This guy made me realize I was a writer. Liz_Horvet https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1906804187 2021-11-22 18:51:00 UTC https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1906804187 Liz_Horvet https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1906804891 2021-11-22 18:51:23 UTC https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1906804891 Every modern horror story? Yeah... THIS GUY is responsible for them ALL. Richard Matheson. Liz_Horvet https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1906805367 2021-11-22 18:51:39 UTC https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1906805367 Susan Hill. The greatest living horror writer. The Woman in Black. Liz_Horvet https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1906805923 2021-11-22 18:51:57 UTC https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1906805923 Another amazing writer and poet. Michael Ondaatje. Liz_Horvet https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1906806337 2021-11-22 18:52:11 UTC https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/1906806337 Has this man written some of the best real science science fiction? You bet Jurassic ... Park... and the Lost World... and Congo... the late Michael Chrichton. Liz_Horvet https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/2248357793 2022-07-22 22:28:50 UTC https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/2248357793 Brains... we need to embiggen them! Liz_Horvet https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/2248357951 2022-07-22 22:29:57 UTC https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/2248357951 I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Liz_Horvet https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/2248358306 2022-07-22 22:32:28 UTC https://padlet.com/Liz_Horvet/eoykqgs5qvvvc83/wish/2248358306