Introduction Growing up on the beautiful island of Guam, diversity was not just a concept, it was my everyday life. I am both Chamorro and African American, and while I was fully immersed in Chamorro culture, my outward appearance often led people...
Drawing on examples from a fourth-grade bilingual classroom, this downloadable resource offers practical strategies for supporting multilingual learners through translanguaging. Isabella Murk shares classroom-tested approaches—including cognates...
Dear teachers, It’s a morning in January, and we’ve been committed to a writers' workshop for five months now. Fifth-grade students are confident in their role as authors and take their job of creating and sharing their voice very seriously. Our...
In my kindergarten Chinese immersion classroom, students are always learning two things at once: academic content and a new language. Since I work at an immersion school, all of my students are emergent readers and writers in Chinese. At the...
Elementary classrooms are changing fast, and literacy instruction is changing with them. As with all things, it is important to utilize technology with an appropriate balance; it certainly cannot replace all classroom curriculum and instruction...
How can podcasting transform the way students engage with reading and writing? In this episode of Corridor Conversations, educators Victoria Dotson and Amy Shearer explore how integrating media literacy into elementary classrooms opens new pathways...
Technology-Enhanced Multimodal Literacy Instruction In my classroom, students use technology to create, analyze, or to think multimodally—not just as consumers but as creators. Rather than incorporating technology as an add-on, students use digital...
Click the image to download a planning guide for lessons that integrate meaningful tech to extend students' learning. In my role as library media specialist, my favorite part of my work is co-designing lessons with teachers who are eager to...
Dear Teachers, Something I have noticed, especially in the years since COVID-19, is that there has been this push to move as much as possible online. Moving student assignments and independent work to Canvas or another LMS (learning management...
With more than two decades of teaching experience, I know that assessment is far more than scoring, testing, or ticking boxes. Thoughtfully observing children’s reading, writing, speaking, and listening helps me plan instruction that meets their...