Help your language learners TALK → THINK → READ with confidence.
The very first strategy I recommend?
The Teacher-Made Big Book.
Because it builds oral language, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing all at once.
Students don’t need more worksheets.
They need shared text, repeated language, and structured talk.
When they can say it and see it, they can finally write it.
They need a Big Book.
Builds oral language through repeated, meaningful practice
Gives students the vocabulary before you expect them to write
Supports comprehension, fluency, and writing across content areas
Boosts engagement students LOVE seeing their ideas in print
Works for multilingual learners, emergent readers, and mixed-level classrooms
Turns standards into storytelling, connection, and confident writing
Students rereading a Big Book they helped create… proud, engaged, focused.
Students confidently turning and talking because the language is accessible.
Emergent readers tracking print and using vocabulary naturally across subjects.
Writers staying on topic because the language has been rehearsed repeatedly.
This is the kind of literacy instruction that sticks.
✔ Editable Big Book templates using GLAD® frames
✔ 2-week Jumpstart Guide (done-for-you sequence)
✔ Full PDF Coaching Guide with deeper modeling + lesson flow
✔ Classroom student videos (real examples)
✔ Step-by-step assembly instructions
✔ Turn-and-talk routines for oral language + vocabulary
✔ Highlighting + tricky word routines for fluency
✔ Student-created page routines to bridge reading → writing
✔ Learning Log prompts (Common Core + WIDA aligned)
✔ Rubric-based performance task ideas
✔ ELL scaffolds for multilingual learners and emergent readers
This isn’t a resource.
This is follow-up coaching that shows you exactly how to turn a GLAD® strategy into two weeks of powerful instruction.
K–5 teachers who want language-rich literacy instruction
ELL/multilingual learners
Teachers looking for a predictable routine that boosts reading + writing
New teachers wanting clarity and confidence
Veteran teachers wanting engagement without extra work
Anyone ready to make oral language the foundation of reading and writing
Grab the Big Book Follow-Up Coaching Guide Your first step to GLAD® success
(Instant access. Start tomorrow.)
Gladly Teaching: Big Book Boot Camp (Live Workshop)
This Boot Camp expands your Big Book implementation from “I understand it” to “I can actually do this in my classroom on Monday.”
If you’ve wanted to watch the strategy unfold in real time and then see students write sentences… this is it.
You’ve ever felt your curriculum doesn’t fully support multilingual learners.
You want students writing on topic, confidently and consistently.
You want to see a GLAD® strategy modeled step by step.
You’re tired of collecting PDFs and want a Big Book you’ll actually use.
You’re ready to turn oral language into grade-level writing by Friday.
✔ Your own Big Book created during the workshop
✔ Editable templates + scaffolds for vocabulary and oral language
✔ Clear planning steps that connect oral language → writing
✔ Engagement routines that get students talking, thinking, writing
✔ Live implementation confidence with real-time coaching
✔ Access to K–5 classroom videos for continued support
Hands-on coaching not theory
You plan with your own standards + curriculum
You leave with a ready-to-teach Big Book
Oral language routines become automatic
Writing instruction becomes joyful and simple
This is the kind of PD teachers actually use.
K–5 teachers ready to SEE the strategy modeled live
Teachers wanting guaranteed writing results
ELL teachers + interventionists who need talk-to-write routines for small groups
Teachers wanting a done-together product, not another handout
Anyone who wants writing to feel effortless, not overwhelming
Join the live workshop where we turn your standards and curriculum into a Big Book that builds confident writers.
"Wow, I used to just read the book once. Now I can even leave the big book with a sub and know students are still getting access to vocab!"
I love the quick start guide there were extra ideas not in the PDF and so I felt like this was money and time well spent.
I teach 4th grade and wasn't sure how using the "If you give a mouse a cookie." template would go... but, they loved it! I turned it into, "If you take an explorer to Washington!" It was awesome! Thank you!!