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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 19:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patjohnson222</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://catchingreaders.com/?p=1474</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kids of all ages find it easy to write from personal experiences. I’m a firm believer in getting kids to tell their own stories. And everyone has stories about older or younger siblings (or what it’s like being an only child.) With only a few weeks left before summer break, I was looking for something [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catchingreaders.com&#038;blog=14708989&#038;post=1474&#038;subd=catchingreaders&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 15:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m a walker.  I try to walk 4-6 miles every day. A few days ago I was almost finished with my walk when I passed two little girls with their nanny. The older one (about 4 ½) let out a great big “HI!” with a big smile on her face.  So I stopped and our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catchingreaders.com&#038;blog=14708989&#038;post=1465&#038;subd=catchingreaders&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday &#8211; Found Poems</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 11:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago the Stenhouse blog did a week of Book Spine Poetry. I loved the idea and started noticing the poems found in the stacks of books I have sitting around my classroom and home. I found this one and thought I would share. &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; How have you or your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catchingreaders.com&#038;blog=14708989&#038;post=1454&#038;subd=catchingreaders&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 11:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago I did a series of posts on Explore , a time for kids to play. I shared how we did this in my kindergarten classroom, and wondered how this might look in the upper grades. Well, two of my amazing colleagues, Devon Parks and Tara Boone, decided to take on the challenge [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catchingreaders.com&#038;blog=14708989&#038;post=1425&#038;subd=catchingreaders&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interacting with our Interactive Whiteboard</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 14:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The principle goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.&#8221; - Jean Piaget (quote taken from Literacy Smarts) I am fortunate to teach in a school where each classroom has a SMARTboard &#8211; an interactive white board mounted to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catchingreaders.com&#038;blog=14708989&#038;post=1429&#038;subd=catchingreaders&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Nudges You?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 19:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patjohnson222</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always remember Don Graves using the word “nudging.” He talked about nudging students to give them that gentle push to try something new in their writing.  I loved the concept.  It seemed to offer the student a challenge, yet something not too overwhelming. With the gentle nudge, it meant that they were supported in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catchingreaders.com&#038;blog=14708989&#038;post=1415&#038;subd=catchingreaders&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>STICK-WITH-IT-NESS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patjohnson222</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this fast-paced world of today, how much are we doing to teach our students about persevering? The idea of endurance, perseverance, and over-coming obstacles certainly seems worth discussing with our young readers, writers, and learners. Don’t we want students to stick with something even when the going gets tough? The fifth graders I work [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catchingreaders.com&#038;blog=14708989&#038;post=1385&#038;subd=catchingreaders&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Community Writing</title>
		<link>http://catchingreaders.com/2012/04/22/community-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 22:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week we finished a community writing project that we&#8217;ve been working on for several weeks. After completing a unit of study on fairy tales, we decided to write our own version &#8211; calling it The Three Gingerbread Kids. I posted the story in a VoiceThread below so we could share it with others. There is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catchingreaders.com&#038;blog=14708989&#038;post=1391&#038;subd=catchingreaders&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three Things</title>
		<link>http://catchingreaders.com/2012/04/12/three-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I was in Asheville for Spring Break, enjoying running the beautiful mountain trails there. I met two women at a bike &#38; outdoor shop bar one evening and we started talking. The women were on a mountain biking vacation from Canada and had left their children and husbands at home. It came up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catchingreaders.com&#038;blog=14708989&#038;post=1376&#038;subd=catchingreaders&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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