About Trish Prentice

Trish Prentice records her reflections on teaching Daily 5 during the first weeks of school, and lets us in on the adventure.  

Trish shares a touching article about how she stays in touch with former students after they move to the next grade.

Words that end with 'ed' can make three differenct sounds. This lesson will help students sort it out.

Have you ever noticed how many words have a th, ch, sh, or wh? Children need to know what happens to these letter sounds when they stand side by side.

The only thing we love more than a beautiful conferring notebook is a beautiful clipboard for checking in with student choices. 

Print the Ready Reference Guide and Parent Pipeline for this skill here. 

Print the Ready Reference Guide and Parent Pipeline for this skill here.

Print the Ready Reference Guide and Parent Pipeline for this skill here. 

Print the Ready Reference Guide and Parent Pipeline for this skill here. 

Rethinking your system for how and when you collect interesting words may help turn your students into Word Wizards. Trish shares six ideas.

Looking for ideas to make end of year classroom library maintenance efficient and collaborative?  Take a look at these simple suggestions. 

Pick and choose the ideas that work best for you, and help create lifelong readers.

Here's a classroom hack that makes labeling shelves a cinch.