We made cookies to assess the students' understanding of fiction and non-fiction with all of the first grade teachers team teaching. We ...

In reading we have been learning about author's purpose. We have been sorting books into fiction and non-fiction categories, or entertai...

To help the students learn about the purpose of informational versus entertainment texts and to make a real world connection to the digraph ...

We have been studying Author's Purpose through a variety of texts. To assess the students' understanding, they worked in groups to s...

Last week we learned about the sounds /sh/ and /ch/. To help the students remember /ch/, all of the first grade teachers taught a collaborat...

Over the last two weeks we have been talking about different types of media and their purposes. Two of the main purposes we talked about las...