This year, I've been blessed to be working in a school with a positive atmosphere. I LOVE, LOVE my 4th graders, the parents, and my work family (can you feel the <3?)
The biggest hurdle (other than the regular "getting used to the newness") is that our school chose to forego the use of a basal (BLAH to the basal!) and use authentic literature instead (YAY!). Although it's been time consuming to find literature to teach certain skills and find ways to do the formal assessments, I'm going to post my progress here so I can refer back to it year after year (and share it too)...
I purchased a few resources to help me along the way. First, I bought Nicole Shelby's Reading Interactive Notebook. Second, I bought a Curriculum Map for Thematic Units on the Common Core website. Oh! I forgot to mention, my school also wants us to use thematic units as we teach, too (more "newness" lol). Here is a run-down of what I've used and taught, etc...
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The biggest hurdle (other than the regular "getting used to the newness") is that our school chose to forego the use of a basal (BLAH to the basal!) and use authentic literature instead (YAY!). Although it's been time consuming to find literature to teach certain skills and find ways to do the formal assessments, I'm going to post my progress here so I can refer back to it year after year (and share it too)...
I purchased a few resources to help me along the way. First, I bought Nicole Shelby's Reading Interactive Notebook. Second, I bought a Curriculum Map for Thematic Units on the Common Core website. Oh! I forgot to mention, my school also wants us to use thematic units as we teach, too (more "newness" lol). Here is a run-down of what I've used and taught, etc...
