Step into this fourth-grade classroom with us to see what Prepared Classroom looks like when it is up and running.

Gail and Rachel Stephens come up with a plan to help Sinclair continue expanding her vocabulary.

Rachel and Gail discover Brian is beginning to use the strategy of back up and reread with automaticity, so they decide to layer on another strategy to help him reach his goal of reading fluently and accurately.

This poem is rich with meaning, things to talk about, and is a wonderful introduction to personification.

A video to demonstrate speaking the math language with students.

Pam's sixth graders have regrouped to discuss the parameters they've set for math conversations within work time. Because of the guiding questions Pam posed, the students have come prepared to share how they will help each other without giving answers, what they will do and sound like when the work is hard (or easy), and what their conversations will sound like when they disagree with each other.

These sixth grade students are meeting in small groups to discuss behaviors and expectations for themselves and each other when working with math.

In this video you will see Nadia and Janice working with dominoes as a math tool. Dominoes are great for pattern recognition and developing fact fluency.

In this video, Christie emphasizes the importance of adjusting reading rate to her fourth graders. She emphasizes the importance of the strategy in helping to boost comprehension as well as fluency.

In this video, Christie introduces Back Up and Reread as she converses with one of her fourth graders.

Gail is working with a small group of sixth graders to talk about true/false questions as they comprehend what they are reading.

Understanding ratios and ratio reasoning is an advanced mathematical domain found in the sixth grade.

While the launch looks very similar, teachers with experienced students will discover a few differences.