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The Bridging Literacy Community
Supporting YOU with planning, organizing, and learning about research-based instructional strategies
without the added stress and overwhelm of where to start and what to do.
We are on a mission to support educators by offering professional development, resources and the guidance they deserve.
HOW CAN WE HELP?
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Provide you with collaborative, high engaging resources across your literacy standards
Guide you with understanding your standards and how to effectively scaffold and teach them to your students
Support you through curriculums, increasing engagement, and understanding the research in education
The Bridging Literacy Community is EVERYTHING you need to enhance your core programs/ curriculum, support learning differences and create an engaging learning environment without sacrificing your time and energy.
What's Included in The Bridging Literacy Community
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Unpacking Anchor Videos
Comprehensive instructional videos that breakdown each anchor both horizontally (to scaffold the learning) and vertically (to align each standard across 3rd-6th grade). Track your lessons and assessments using the pre-filled organizer.
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Authentic & Scaffolded Lessons
Engage and challenge your students with a variety of critical thinking activities. You will also find collaborative activities to help build community, teach 21st century skills, and develop oral language skills that are essential in the learning process.
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Engaging & Rigorous Mini Units
Gain access to a number of mini units that are perfect for reviewing essential skills and challenge your students. Use the mini units to begin a unit lesson or while you are between units to get your students excited about learning.
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Professional Development
No more sitting in professional development that is irrelevant. Instead, gain access to a library of PD sessions that you can fit in at your own pace and select the ones that are the most relevant to you and your students. These are actionable and relatable to YOU!
LOOK WHAT'S COMING IN 2024
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Bridging Literacy is more than just resources. It is the ONLY 3rd-6th grade membership that supports your learning and growth as a professional.
VIEW SAMPLES OF OUR RESOURCES
SHARK WEEK!
This resource is all about research around sharks! Students will explore and learn about the different types of sharks and complete a research slide deck to present to the class. This is perfect to keep students engaged right before summer.
WRITING BOOTCAMP
Get your students pumped about writing at the beginning of the year with this unit. Review key vocabulary that will support the learning that takes place in writing units for the remainder of the year.
NIGHTBOOKS
Read alouds are a great way to review literacy concepts, and build a community of readers in your classroom. Nightbooks is fractured fairytale about a young writer who is trapped in a witch's apartment, forced to write her stories for the rest of his life.
CHECK OUT SAMPLE VIDEOS
UNIT EXPLAINATION
ANCHOR SAMPLE
The Support You Deserve
After teaching in three very different districts/ schools, they each showed me the importance of supporting teachers in their practices.
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My first school had a reading coach and valued professional development from all areas and expertise. After leaving, my next district had one-to-one devices, tons of administrative support and trust, but lacked in developing its teachers in their content areas. Finally, the last school I taught at had no resources, no support, and no professional development. We all taught differently and were left in the dark.
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These experiences have made it clear the importance of having support and professional development. Without this, learning cannot occur. That is why I created The Bridging Literacy Community to support teachers in their journey and offering the resources to save them time and their sanity.
Unpacking Anchors Series
One of the markers for student success is having a clear understanding of your grade level standards, and to define the differences horizontally and vertically to build scaffolded alignment.
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Video explanation of anchors
Horizontal explanation with student learning targets
Mentor texts across a variety of complexities and types
Activities for scaffolded practice
Organizer for planning assessments and activities
Instructional slides and rubrics being added!
Professional Development
Get professional development that is RELEVANT, ACTIONABLE, and SIMPLE to begin implementing. Here are some topics that are available immediately!
Phonics Instruction for Upper Elementary
Teaching Syllables
Small Group Instruction
The Science of Reading Breakdown
Interactive Read Alouds
Mentor Sentences & Your Instruction
RESOURCES
In addition, you will have access to a plethora of resources to help you plan, organize and support your students in the learning process. Here are a few of resources available upon access to the community.
Sub plans
Checklists for standards, assignments and more
Mentor texts across a variety of complexities and types
Warm-up Activities: Word Matrices and Shades of Meaning
Assessments for syllables including instructional slides
Instructional Strategies
Student Resources
Are your teachers looking for holiday themed items? We’ve got resources for that too! Do your teachers need interactive read-aloud materials? Done! What about engaging warm-ups for address a variety of needs. Yup, we have that too!
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