Spiral WarmUps Blog
New Warm-Ups for Back-to-School 2022
We’re always excited to release the new set of warm-ups each semester. However, this year is especially thrilling because we’ve got two brand new areas of focus: Test Prep Grammar In the past, the new warm-ups focused on the same focal points: comprehension skills, word study, spelling, and fluency. But now, we’re branching out to…
What to Do When Guided Reading Isn’t Working
When Guided Reading Isn’t Working. What do you do? This simple shift in thinking might be all you need!
The Role of Grammar in Literacy Skills
Grammar is not often discussed in ELAR standards or in curricular resources today. So we thought we’d give a quick glance into the research on grammar. Specifically, we are curious about the role grammar plays in literacy skills. We have questions such as: Does grammar increase spelling skills? Does grammar have a positive effect on…
How Do You Schedule a Literacy Block (and other FAQs)
How do you schedule a literacy block? It’s the key question to planning effective reading instruction. We all know there’s not enough time in the day to teach every strand of reading skills each day. The solution is streamlining the balanced literacy block (here are a few literacy block schedules to help and a sample…
120 Minute Literacy Block Schedule
The sample 120 minute literacy block schedule below is designed to help teachers, literacy coaches, and school leaders plan for effective literacy block time management. The two literacy block schedules below are for Grades 2-3 and Grades 4-5. If you’d like to see a full set of literacy block schedules, you can learn about them…
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