How to Start the Year Strong: 5 Simple Tips for Launching Your Literacy Block
The start of the school year is always a whirlwind—between classroom setup, professional development, and learning 25 new names (or more), it’s easy to feel like your literacy block becomes an afterthought.
But those first few weeks? They matter. A lot. They set the tone for everything that follows.
In this episode, I’m sharing 5 simple but powerful tips to help you launch your literacy block with purpose and ease—without overcomplicating things or burning yourself out by week two.
Whether you’ve got your curriculum mapped out or you’re still staring at a blank lesson plan, this episode will help you start strong and build the kind of block that actually works for the rest of the year.
✏️ What You’ll Learn:
- Why it’s okay (and necessary!) to keep things simple at the start
- How to connect classroom routines directly to your lessons
- What “every week” skills are and why you should start teaching them now
- Easy ways to align your reading and writing blocks for better flow
- The #1 mistake teachers make when trying to fill a long block—and how to avoid it
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