I started this site years ago as a 4th grade language teacher. This blog started as a place for a 4th grade language arts teacher to share classroom ideas. If I had to name my blog now, it would be Hardcore Literacy and Pretty Things.
That's a terrible name and will never happen.
First of all, the word hardcore really has no place in elementary school. Too many other connotations. BUT it is how I feel about literacy instruction. I think it's important to continually ask ourselves as teachers-why am I using this resource? How is it helping my kids? What am I doing to support my readers? What happens when my students live in a educational culture that teaches to a standardized test? I hope this blog is a place to navigate what we know about teaching reading and the reality of being in a classroom with overwhelming demands.
And pretty things, because well, I like pretty things. I love making graphics and digital tidbits, and you'll find those here too.
When I'm not reading about reading or talking about reading, I have a pretty great life. I've been in education for 18 years as a 1st-4th grade teacher and as a literacy coach. I'm a proud LSU grad. Geaux Tigers! I was kidnapped and brought kicking and screaming to Texas in 2009, and I'm mostly over the trauma. I have a wonderful husband (we'll overlook that moving thing) and two sweet daughters that are the source of most of my laughter. (And gray hair-but that's why God made dye, right?)
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