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Ways to Use Exit Tickets in your Classroom
How do you check for student understanding? As educators, we are constantly checking in with our students. Perhaps you are already including some type of
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13 Ideas to Support your Gifted Students
Typically, as teachers, we put more time and energy into focusing on the students that have fallen behind or are struggling. That’s where our focus
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9 Ways to Engage Your Students During Reading Block
For many of us, our reading block lasts anywhere from 90-120 minutes every day. That time is extremely important because it is the one time
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19 Read Alouds for Teaching Central Message
“What lesson can we learn from the story?” When it comes to teaching the central message, choosing the story is my favorite part. Over the
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Teaching Tips for Your Students with Dyslexia
Students with Dyslexia are sometimes the most challenging students to figure out! They seem brilliant at specific tasks but then never master the alphabet. They
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Ideas for Engaging Students with Fluency Passages
Improving reading fluency in our students is one of the main goals of any elementary school teacher. I personally struggle with finding additional resources to
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Don’t Pitch Your Leveled Readers!
Being a teacher over the last year has drained me! What seems to be making it harder this year are the false critiques of my
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Renewed Buzz on the Science of Reading
Any teacher that has been in a primary classroom for some years knows that reading protocols change often. Too often, people make decisions that our
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23 Math Read-Alouds for Primary Students
Read-aloud time is one of my favorite parts of the school day! Your students are engaged, they get to listen to fluent reading, and everyone
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9 Reasons Your Students Will Love Interactive Notebooks
I’ll admit… I wasn’t on the interactive notebooks train when it was presented to me (read: mandated with zero background or functional description for how
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30 Reading Comprehension Activities for Kindergarten and First Grade
Reading is everywhere. As an adult, you have to read books, lesson plans, emails, texts, posts, blogs, recipes, directions, etc., every single day. So you
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19 Sight Word Activities to Try Today
Let’s talk SIGHT WORDS. Words you recognize by sight, a.k.a, little turds. Just being honest and I know I’m not alone. (I see you nodding