The first grade teachers at Kings Beach Elementary school are requesting read aloud books in Spanish to support our Writer’s Workshop program. We use the Lucy Calkin’s Writer’s Workshop as our writing curriculum. In first grade at KBE all of our instruction is done in Spanish. The curriculum does not

The LIPS phonemic awareness program is a multisensory approach to teaching reading. Many learners including those with dyslexia struggle to develop the ability to isolate and manipulate the phonemes of the English language. This program will benefit these learners through explicit, hands-on, research-based instruction.

Our young students highly benefit from having concrete items that represent abstract ideas. In the Kinder and First grade classes at KBE, we use a set of reading strategies that are linked to animals; like Sliding Serpent - who teaches us to slide our finger below the words as we

Truckee Elementary 4th grade is requesting nonfiction book sets to support social studies reading after the Gold Rush. Our library has book sets about California history, however the historical novels end with California Ranchos. Books are needed that tell the story after 1900. The titles align with the State Standards

Purchase the PeaceJam Junior Curriculum for our school. It is accessed online with videos, lesson plans, and downloadable information. Truckee Elementary School received an award for our Blended ELD model. When I attended training last summer in Sacramento, I learned of ways to enhance our Blended ELD program and our

As a team, our school as chosen a variety of books that would best support our curriculum in each grade level and books that would allow students to have a variety of levels to choose from when selecting for themselves. Students will be able to move between classrooms with ease

There are many captivating picture books that build on student’s learning of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and California Social Studies Standards. Students learn NGSS material through experiments, reading articles, writing, and discussion. However, they rarely get time to read further about what they are learning in science in a

AIMSweb is a complete web based system that provides universal screening, progress monitoring, and data management for students at all academic levels. The program will screen students at North Tahoe School to guide teachers with effective and efficient decision making in reading intervention for intensive, strategic, and benchmark students. With

Using student-sized dry erase boards has become a standard part of our classroom instruction. Many years ago we created class sets out of old dry erase boards that were taken down from classrooms, but these are now very old and don't wipe clean, so it is time for new. Dry

A critical part of an elementary language arts curriculum is interactive read aloud. During read aloud time, teachers are able to model fluency as well as critical reading skills like inference and using context clues to find the meaning of words. This year's Newbery Book Award winner is "Merci Saurez