Ms. Vigna
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I have a lot of antiracist work to do. I’ve donated money, I’m starting a summer book club on the book, How to Be Antiracist, for any interested staff, and I plan on attending both of the Kidlit sessions above (the link is the first one below). Let’s learn and unlearn together. Here is this…
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Summer reading is a passion of mine. I’ve developed a summer reading launch unit for teachers to use in the past, so I adapted it for quaranteaching. The goal of the units, one for primary and another for intermediate, is to set up students for success for summer reading: figuring out their best reading routines,…
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Last week, I hosted a PD for my staff on creating Bitmoji digital libraries that you can access HERE. Before showing them how to build their Bitmoji digital libraries, I sprinkled in some PD on classroom libraries, how to curate a collection, and digital book platforms. Together with the how-to portion of the session, I…
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This week, the second grade team at my school asked for online book club info, so I rounded up my go-to resources in my free version of Padlet (I maxed out my Padlets, and I refuse to pay $8 per month right now): videos of book clubs in action for students to analyze and infer,…
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Two weeks ago, I shared my first iteration of a virtual library. Since then, I’ve seen lots of other versions pop up online so I expanded my repertoire and created my first Bitmoji virtual library. I couldn’t love it more! The collection’s focus is Caring for the Earth. All you or your students and families…
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This week’s Remote Learning Drop is an example of the text-talk approach of vocabulary instruction from Bringing Words to Life. My Loom video lesson includes a quick read aloud, brief language study lesson, and a Word Wizards Padlet where students can write their examples. Feel free to use this as a stand-alone lesson or riff off…
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My sixth Writing Clinic’s focus was shared and interactive writing, and if you are an LPS employee, you can access it HERE. This is the second Writing Clinic to occur during quarantine, so it’s another online, on-demand PD that I pre-recorded. I confess that I’m disappointed to not have the live discussions, but giving teachers…
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Since we’re officially continuing remote learning for the rest of the 2019-2020 school year, my new goal is to begin each forthcoming Literacy Links post with a remote learning instructional resource. I’ll make a video lesson and include all of the necessary resources to share with students. WOO HOO! This week’s lesson is for science:…
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The book fair coordinators at my school arranged for an online book fair! Usually, I clear my schedule the week of the Book Fair so that I can attend as many classrooms’ visits to help kids find just right books. Since we’re all in quarantine though, I decided to book talk my way through the…
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My colleagues recorded a video message for our school community over the past two weeks. Normally, I love these types of assignments because I can be my creative self, but honestly, I wasn’t in the right head space to make anything fun. So my first submission was a photo of my hands holding the earrings…
A SEA OF TALK 