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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 Sight Words

Should I still teach sight words? Teachers everywhere question whether they should pitch their sight words activities and resources and instead focus on phonics, phonemic

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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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The Benefits of an ETTC Membership

Teachers, there is so much on our plates this year. It feels like every teacher could use a 4 week paid vacation to the tropical

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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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18 Elementary Comprehension Activities

Getting our students reading is no easy task! We have our choppy readers, fast readers, super slow readers, and even non-readers all bundled together in

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30 Reading Comprehension Activities for K/1

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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Comprehension Questions: Beyond the 5 W’s

Teachers like myself sometimes have to scramble to find the right ways to use comprehension questions and the right materials for the job. I know

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A Peek Inside the SPED Community: Resources on How to Become a More Inclusive Classroom

The month of April brings more than just showers and flowers. It is a time when we celebrate our autistic students and children. It is

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11 Activities for Emergent Readers to Practice Fluency

While activities for emergent readers to practice fluency can look slightly different, the basic concepts are the same – helping students to lessen their focus

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YouTube Videos that Teach PHONICS

Phonics videos are great to use in a variety of settings!  I use phonics videos to get my students started in the morning, during indoor

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