Hameray Classroom Literacy Blog

Teaching Onomatopoeia with Joy Cowley's Books—with FREE download!
What Can Fairy Tales Teach Students? (Includes FREE download!)
Hameray Herald: Late June Issue
Using Paired Texts to Teach about Homes—with FREE download!
A Scavenger Hunt for Informational Text Features—with FREE download!
Using Graphic Organizers with Biographies—with FREE download
Teaching Kids To Read with Shared Reading: Part 1—with FREE Download!
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Informational Texts and the Water Cycle—with FREE download!
Using Paired Texts to Teach about Dance—with FREE download!
Bringing History to Life with Biography Day!
Making Comics Based on Readers' Theater Scripts
Hameray Herald: June 2, 2014 Issue
What Is It Like to Meet Joy Cowley? A Teacher-Blogger's Perspective
Using Paired Texts to Teach Personal Safety—with FREE download!
Using Hand Lenses to Find and Sort Hidden Factoids—with FREE download!
The Power of Play and Pretending—with FREE download!
We've Got Adorable Winner Pictures from the Joy Cowley Giveaway!
Pulling Facts from Biographies with Alphaboxes—with FREE download!
Congratulations to Our IRA Raffle Winner!
Using Paired Texts to Teach About the Water Cycle
Motivating Students with QR Codes: Working with Biographies
Teaching Quotation Marks with Mrs. Wishy-Washy—with FREE download
Teaching Kids to Write: The Author's Purpose and Writing to Communicate