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I’m loving this idea—what are some ways you build discussion with your students?
This is something I just recently started doing with my third through fifth grade intervention students: when we have an exit ticket, I will leave some highlighters next to the turn in bin. Students highlight their name when they turn in the assignment: green if they feel like they got it; yellow if they feel like they mostly have it; and orange if they are still struggling. This provides them some self advocacy and allows them to share with just me that they may need more help or that they felt great about the assignment!
What are some ways you practice self-assessment with students?
Find out some very easy ways families can incorporate reading into a morning routine!
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One of my favorite things to do as a family - to promote family literacy - has been to create a Holiday Family Story. Together, all 5 of us write a silly story that summarizes our experiences throughout the year. We begin with the same starting sentence each year and then each family member adds a sentence or paragraph. How do you incorporate family literacy fun into holiday celebrations?
How can we reassure parents that struggling with reading is not a reflection of their child's potential, but rather a natural part of the learning process?
One of the most challenging thing I am finding with 1st grade students in intervention right now is they do not know how to write the alphabet (in order) in a quick and automatic way. On a daily basis I give them a blank piece of paper and ask them to write the alphabet (and there are no references in my room to look at) and fill in 1 or 2 of these sheets.
I created a variety of quick fill in the boxes alphabet sheets to share with you.
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How do you build automaticity of the alphabet with your students?
Innovative instructional strategies:
What are some of your favorite instructional strategies?
One of my absolute favorite strategies for reading fluency - and even oral language development - is utilizing silly voices! I have created over 200 voices for educators and families to use! Teachers and families can take advantage of early literacy reader's theater scripts and implement repeated readings using a variety of these voices. It is SO much (more) fun to read or speak in a silly voice!
Voices provide skill development in prosody, inflection, word attack, and so much more!
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Does anyone else use ESGI to help assess their students? What assessments do you find most useful in Kindergarten?
Aa professionals we need to be at the table where decisions are made about our profession.
Since I'm in the land of fractions right now, I thought I'd share my favorite teaching math meme! It honestly never fails! You feel like you've seen all the light bulbs go on and then this happens!
The United Way in our area just shifted their focus and formed a School Readiness team… and we attend Summits every couple of months. Do you have anything like this in your area? What are they focusing on?
One thing that I hear teachers say is that they do not teach to the test. I feel that if the test is assessing the standards, and you are teaching the standards then you should teach to the test. I use the released test to show the students how questions are worded and how to look for patterns in the format. I liken the test as playing a game. The more a person knows the rules of a game, the better they will do. Likewise, the more a student understand the testing structure, the better they will do.
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Not a question per se, but I wanted to share a book I’m reading this year that I think is a struggle for all teachers in the area of mathematics instruction.
“Underestimated and over- scaffolded” is what stood out to me and mostly because I know that I am guilty of both as a teacher.
Has anyone read this book?
With this being an election year, what are some of the activities that you do at your school to promote voting? With that, how do you maintain balance in the classroom with the current climate?
What are some ways you spiral review throughout the year for students in math so that concepts stay fresh, and also students remained engaged?
I want to have some options for teachers as I coach them. I’ve done daily 3-5 questions review at the start of a lesson and I’ve added a review station to my station rotation. Just looking for other ideas!
