Miss Kelly Jordan
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My Literacy Block in 2012
Almost exactly one year ago, I posted about my Literacy Block in my Grade Two classroom. Throughout 2011 I modified things with my team teaching partner, Kathleen Morris. Now Kathleen and I are teaching Grade Four, and I have been receiving lots of questions about how I am structuring my literacy program with the older [...]
A New School Year
With the new year comes a new blog theme and a resolution to post more frequently! I am constantly thinking about education and how I can best meet my students’ needs, I just need to blog about it more often! With just a few days of holidays left, I have been thinking about school quite [...]
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Using my Class Blog in Literacy
Over the past couple of years, Kathleen Morris and I have presented at quite a few conferences and staff professional development sessions. One of the main topics we focus on is educational blogging and we often find ourselves saying that blogging is all about literacy. Our class blog is a big part of our daily program. For [...]
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A Digital Pensieve for the iPad
This is a guest post by Jonah Salsich, a grade three teacher in Connecticut, USA. He and his students love buddy blogging with 2KM & 2KJ! * Starting this September, I will be implementing The Daily 5 CAFE model as the key component of my literacy instruction. The Daily CAFE While I am very excited [...]
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Using Glogster in Literacy
Most of my students are currently involved in the two week school swimming program. As is always the case, there are some students not particpating, so Kathleen Morris and I alternate between taking the swimmers and supervising the “non-swimmers”. Traditionally, we complete a variety of “fill in” activities during this time with the non-swimmers, as there is no [...]
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Using Technology in the Literacy Block
A couple of weeks ago Kathleen Morris and I were busy preparing for a presentation we’re giving to our staff next term. The message we are trying to get across is The illiterate of the 21st century will be those who can only read and write across traditional platforms. In our classroom we integrate technology into [...]
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Interactive Whiteboard Activities During Reading
I first got an interactive whiteboard in my classroom in 2008. I was teaching Prep at the time and it was a steep learning curve to discover how I could best use it to engage my students and improve learning outcomes. Fast forward three years and I am teaching Grade Two in an open classroom with [...]
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Alternatives to The Traditional “Big Book”
Like most primary schools, our literacy storeroom is full of “big books”. Teachers choose big books relevant for their class, taking into account the genre, level of difficulty, contents, features etc of the text. Big books are typically used at the beginning of reading lessons, to tune students in and there is usually a particular learning [...]
Learning High Frequency Words
Successful readers and writers need a sound knowledge of high frequency words. One problem some struggling readers have is that they often pause at high frequency words during reading, stopping the flow of the text. This affects their phrasing and fluency, and ultimately meaning from the text is lost if they are regularly stopping to solve words. Learning how to spell [...]
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For the Love of Reading
I thought I’d share a quick idea I used in my classroom this week to help promote a love of reading. Reading is a part of every classroom in every school. Some students love it, while it seems others simply read because we tell them to! To help students feel motivated to read, I [...]
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About Me
My name is Kelly Jordan and 2013 is my tenth year of teaching. I teach at Leopold Primary School, in Victoria, Australia. I team teach with Kathleen Morris in Grade Four. My passions in education are teaching literacy, using technology in my classroom and teaching my students about blogging.
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