It has been a very long time - 5 years! - since the last time I put anything up on the ol' blog. A new year comes with maybe a desire to revisit the old or start the new, so I guess here we go! In this fifth or sixth year of my teaching (I can't remember), I'm now old enough to have practicum students, which is a bit mind boggling. Imposter syndrome is a very real part of how I operate - I'm always doubting where I stand. In this last school year, though, my principal has seen a vision of my that I'm slowly stepping into: I know a lot about literacy. A LOT. I have been reading and researching and implementing and testing all kinds of stuff over the last five years. And people come to me for it. So now, I do things I never thought I would: lesson and teacher coaching, student pull-outs, leading staff seminars ... the whole bit. It still feels unreal. Of course, all that said, I don't know that much. I don't know how grade one teachers do what they do. I don't know how you build the foundational pieces of literacy - how to recognize the alphabet, how to begin reading, how to begin writing. I'm not your girl for that. But: comprehension, decoding, and most importantly BOOK LOVE? I've got your back. To that end, here is a presentation I gave to my school division to launch this year. It has 10 strategies you can try in your classroom tomorrow to give students (readers or not readers) more access to meaningful and authentic text experiences.
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Meagan Fullerton-LeeMeagan is an aspiring teacher, voracious reader, tentative motorcyclist, and passionate gardener. In all things she sees education. Here she shares her passions. Archives
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