About Me
- Fran Richardson
- Welcome to my blog!I'm a teacher of fourth graders in a beautiful, small, rural town. I moved here a few years ago, but I have taught 19 of my 24 years in this same small town that is now my home. My experience is in teaching second, third, and fourth grades with one year in sixth grade. I am always reading, learning, and reflecting on what goes on in my classroom. I love the work that I do with the parents, my fellow teachers, and most all-my students.I hope you will enjoy reading my blog.
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Yorktown - Dear Owlets, We traveled to some very interesting places today and I thought of you all over and over! Can you imagine living in a place where your days ar...38 minutes ago
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Plan this field trip NOW!!!! - Today we had the best (and easiest!) field trip ever! In fact, we did not even leave the classroom! Cisco, a certified therapy dog, came to visit all of ...
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Meatloaf - Four Ingredient Recipes! - *What's For Dinner Tonight? * *Meatloaf* Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a glass lasagna pan, any average size.* * *Mix Ingredients:* 1. 2 lbs. G...
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Think For Yourself (Part 1) - This review is the first in a three-part series. All three books tackle the theme of "Think For Yourself" in very different ways. This first book is about ...15 hours ago
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Compleat Biographer Conference, A Report: Sphinxes, Secrets, Virgin Eyes - This past Saturday, Susan Kuklin, Marfé Ferguson Delano and I were on a panel at the Compleat Biographers Conference here in New York City. Tanya Lee Ston...18 hours ago
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Hit the Beach with Relay Learning Fun - Tomorrow is my last day of school and of course my students have summer on their minds already. So we did the cutest learning relay today from Miss Math Dor...
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Monday Poetry Stretch - Ideograms - This in one of my favorite May Swenson poems. *Cardinal Ideograms* by May Swenson 0 A mouth. Can blow or breathe, be a funnel, or Hello. 1 ...1 day ago
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5 Important Ingredients of Good Preservice Teacher Education - Eva Brown @ebrownorama is a highered teacherpreneur who helps her classroom matter by connecting teachers to others throughout the world. (Listen to the in...1 day ago
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Five for SATURDAY! - 1. BIG News!! Started this--I am finally ready to think about other grade levels!! (Only took a few months........) I am in the very early stages--hope t...
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Scripture Memory Program - Last summer, my wonderful friend Nicole from One Magnificent Obsession and I met to brainstorm ideas on creating a scripture memory program. We could not ...
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Craft "Happy Happy Happy!" - Have you ever had one of those days where it's kind of a "me" day? Today is that day for me! I got up at 7:30, got ready, made my coffee, and have ...
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Five For Friday - Test Prep and Angry Birds - You know what I love even better than Friday? Friday before a long weekend ... ahhhhhhhhh ... much needed!!! It's been a long week ... but a fun week ....
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Freebie Friday is Getting Ready for the Summer too! - Summertime and the living is easy! Well it may not be summer for all of us, but it is summer for some! Lucky, lucky, lucky you! Teaching Blog Addict is h...
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Why I Love @TenMarks Education | Reverse Summer Math Learning Loss Grades 1-10 - *Looking for Summer Math Support?* - try TenMarks... with an early bird discount - Summer is right around the corner, and like many other parents...
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TpT Teacher Appreciation Sale! - my entire store will be on sale! super cute sale graphic by Beth from Zip-a-dee Designs. happy teacher appreciation week! C:\Users\TeamTabb\Pictures
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A quick hello. - It's been a while so I thought I would share some of my friends new handmade cards on ETSY. SPARTACUS 3D Handmade Accordion Photo Card Downton Abbey Handm...1 month ago
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Grading Papers in the Fast Lane! - Okay, I am sure you all have many ways to correct and grade student work, but I am all about speed these days! I divide student work into three groups: *1)...
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Major life changes... - It's been a while since I last posted, mostly because I needed to unplug and give some attention to myself and some major life changes that are happening r...3 months ago
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Non-Fiction Know-It-Alls - It's been several months since my last blog post. But, no excuses! Just happy to share again... We just started really getting into non-fiction in my class...
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Buh-Bye 2012! - So I'm just about T-minus seven hours away from the official start of 2013 and I feel compelled to write some sort of reflective genius about the year. Ho...4 months ago
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Auntie Claus Preview and our Polar Express Day! - I wanted to give a sneak peek at our Auntie Claus unit that my friends, Michele and Elana (Lana) and I are finishing up for teacherspayteachers. We are p...
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A Scary Teacher First - Wow, it's been a while! I was hoping that with a sweet, new class and a great new job, I'd feel like blogging a bit more. It seems like I have only enough ...6 months ago
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My Miracle, a Freebie, Proud Momma, & 100s of Box Tops! - A few weeks ago I was in class and we were talking about dimes and quarters when one of my darling EL (not designated, but definitely EL!) student raised h...
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It's a Lifestyle - I have noticed that everything I do is not a career or an event or even an activity/ chore.... it's a LIFESTYLE. The problem is making sure my lifestyle c...8 months ago
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Calling all teachers!!!! - Alright, this is kind of a poll... I'm about to *finally *open my TpT store, but I'd like to know from y'all what kinds of things you'd like to see first a...9 months ago
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Tennessee's Teacher Evaluation - What a mess! http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/07/education/tennessees-rules-on-teacher-evaluations-bring-frustration.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&smid=fb-share1 year ago
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Five Friday Freebies - Week 22 - f you are not a TN member, membership is FREE. Here is a link to register so you will be able to download. *Teacher Notebook Registration *Click on log in...
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Connecting Children With Nature: Learning About Trees - Our playground is surrounded by an abundance of beautiful trees, which always seem to captivate my very curious kindergartners. Who would have guessed that a...1 year ago
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New Weblog - I have a new weblog at http://love4thgrade.blogspot.com . To save myself $100.00 a year, I am going to stick with just that weblog and close this one the e...1 year ago
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First WAS Fab...Second will be Super! - Thanks to all followers of this BLOG. I will be moving to second grade and will no longer post to this BLOG. I will, however, leave it active for viewing a...1 year ago
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Summer Book Club (for students!) - Our recent post on Teaching Blog Addict has me thinking.... I know I can't wait to read over the summer, but what about my students? How can I help preven...1 year ago
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New Year - New Plans - It's been a whirlwind end to 2010. My school was in the middle of a Quality Review when I received a call to take a position at another school. It was such...2 years ago
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Friday, July 1, 2011
Fab Friday- Reciprocal Teaching and Teaching With Intention
What does it mean to do something with intention? Here are some words associated with intention from Visuwords.com:
This video is actually from one of the first lessons where the groups used the six strategies because I was amazed at how smoothly class ran and also at how well they problem-solved and often answered their own questions, and I wanted to document how well this group worked together. I will use this as a training video for the groups I will teach next school year.
I will be adding handouts for the expectations of working together and the prompt cards over the next several posts.
from Visuwords.com
Planning, purpose, and design…
Carrying on with the theme behind Teaching With Intention by Debbie Miller, I put together a video of one of my classes using the Super Six Strategies.These are the basics of how I want my reciprocal groups to look and sound next year. To get the groups to look and sound this way takes some effort: step-by-step training and high expectations. You will see that kids are using prompt cards that I created. I couldn’t find exactly what I wanted so I took what I thought would best work for me while giving my kids the support they needed. This idea worked very well. I also modeled the strategies as a whole group several times until we had the roles down along with the pass. ( I have the students pass the cards after each paragraph or page so that every member has several roles during a reading time). The students already knew the six strategies so it was just a matter of having them speak their parts and pass to their right. It seemed a bit mechanical at first, but as we used these groups, that was no longer an issue. The cards were numbered so there was little confusion about who had a turn and what each role was. Also, it is important to note that this class has used cooperative groups many times. They are well-versed in the procedures of working together and setting a goal to finish a task. Each card prompts the member of what to say along with what the group might say so it’s understood that everyone has to perform to get the group’s work done successfully. I have to say that they did an excellent job on keeping their groups on task. There were a few times that you can hear another group. That was another procedure lesson about voice level. It’s easy to address some of these problems when the group either ends a session or starts a new one.
This video is actually from one of the first lessons where the groups used the six strategies because I was amazed at how smoothly class ran and also at how well they problem-solved and often answered their own questions, and I wanted to document how well this group worked together. I will use this as a training video for the groups I will teach next school year.
I will be adding handouts for the expectations of working together and the prompt cards over the next several posts.
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