“All teachers are underpaid, overworked, and stressed out.“ That’s how one teacher described her job. Teacher work life balance is something that almost all educators struggle with. This teacher said that she felt like she was always running late for school events, meetings, and parent conferences. And when she wasn’t working, she was trying to keep up with homework assignments,… Read More
I have had a lot of people ask me, since I have over 300 interactive read aloud lesson plans in my TPT store, how to plan a read aloud. I’m not going to lie, it’s a process. Planning one interactive read aloud takes me about 2.5 hours with Netflix on or 2 hours without Netflix 😉 The best part about… Read More
Why do read alouds fail? When I first started teaching, I wasn’t given much direction in terms of read alouds. In my literacy class I had read that a read aloud was part of a balanced literacy program and that I should do one. I wasn’t really told anything more but my professor did read us Thank You, Mr. Falker… Read More
