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A day in our classroom...
By Mandy 4th

I teach just reading, writing and social studies because I team teach with another teacher. Next year I will be teaching all the language arts and she will teach the math, science and social studies.

So on to what you
want to hear...I teach Guided Reading for my reading block and I use elements from the Mosaic of Thought. I lean very heavily on the Balanced Literacy approach from the Guiding Reading and Writers book by Fountas and Pinnell. I do not teach reading workshop, because I have not managed to fit it in yet, but will try to add it in next school year.
For writing I teach writing workshop (from

the same book).

Our school provides a grammar practice book (maybe Scott Foresman? I can't remember). Our Reading Anthology/ Basal is Scott Foresman and I do pick and choose pieces I like.

For spelling we teach using the Rebecca Sitton spelling program. I have not taught it yet (my teammate does) but she REALLY likes it because it recycles words and there is not "word list" for students to memorize. Students are given a weekly test but the words are from a list of words to be mastered by fourth grade. Then they are also quizzed on words that students may have NOT mastered from lower grades (which, their, there and they're).

I have a website where I include many of the things I do in my guided reading. To see a minute by minute plan of my reading schedule you can click here
http://www.mandygregory.com/Guided%20Reading.htm