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As a teacher, I wish that the loving classroom family and environment that I’ve built for my students could follow them wherever they go in life. Unfortunately, the world we live in is not always kind. Not everyone is compassionate, caring, and accepting. Not everyone embraces differences or shows others respect. In the early days of education, the term “character…
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Vocabulary Stats To Know If you’re a primary teacher, you’ve most likely given careful thought to how you will teach phonics this year. Perhaps you have a whole toolkit of fun and engaging activities to teach blending, CVC words, and phonemic awareness skills. But what about vocabulary? Is it okay to wait or put vocabulary instruction off until your students…
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Today, we’re talking all about visual perceptual skills. I’ll share some of these visual perceptual skills with you, give examples, and explain how they can contribute or take away from a child’s ability to read with ease and fluency. You see as primary teachers, it’s easy to get “comfortable” in how we teach and approach reading skills in the classroom. Today, I’m…
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Sometimes, (okay all of the time) we get so busy over the summer that we BLINK and suddenly it’s August 1st. I distinctly remember several August 1st days in my career when I said to myself, “I didn’t get anything done that I wanted to this summer! Where did time go?” I would become a Teaching Tornado as I tried to…
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In this blog post, I have three FREE gift tags to give you for your student gifts at the end of the year! The end of the school year is almost here, and that means that teachers everywhere are busy! It’s time to clean out desks and cupboards, pack away boxes of materials, and store things away for the summer….
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Comprehension instruction can be a challenge for many reading teachers. In this post, I am going to share six books with you that have helped shape how I teach reading comprehension in my classroom. It is no secret to my friends and family that I have a true love of professional resource books about anything and everything to do with education. When…
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Today, we’re going to talk about how to use games and toys in your classroom for increased critical thinking and problem-solving skills! When my first graders graduate college and attend their first job interviews, they will most likely not be asked to state the definition of matter. We would be surprised to find them completing a timed addition test, and…
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