What are some fun activities/collaboration between buddy classrooms (3rd and kinder)?

Next week is "Celebrate Freedom Week". During that week, students will learn about different founding documents. One key statement that we discuss is, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed". What are some ways that your district explains the idea that government's power comes from the people. (This is a State Statute as well as a set of standards)

I have students who are struggling with reading. What are some strategies that I can use to help them?

First, you need to determine the area of focus that the student is struggling with. This can be done by using various assessments. Gather data on different areas of reading: decoding, sight words, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

Once you have determined the area(s) of concern, you can apply reading interventions to address these needs.

Word Study

Phonemic awareness

Decoding

High Frequency (sight words)

Syllabication

Spelling

Fluency

Modeled and assisted oral reading

Prosody development (pacing, intonation, volume, smoothness, phrasing, expression)

Guided reading

Partner reading

Vocabulary

Teacher models and explains

Technical

Content specific (using different genres)

Teaching word parts (roots, prefixes, suffixes)

How do you structure parent/teacher conferences?
Do students attend or lead the conference or do you just meet with caregivers?
What information do you share during the conference?

I’m loving this idea—what are some ways you build discussion with your students?

What software or program does your district utilize for IEP writing? Our district uses Illuminate. What are your thoughts on the program you use?

How do you ensure that students with severe speech and language articulation or receptive or expressive disabilities take appropriate routine assessments? For example a student that struggles with speaking fluently i.e. stutters may be omitted from one minute oral reading fluency benchmark testing. Students with specific articulation errors should also not be penalized for these errors during early literacy screeners and benchmark tests. Our district writes the articulations errors on the Acadience test booklet to avoid such penalties.

How often does your Multi-Disciplinary team meet? In our building our team the Reading Specialist, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, School Psychologist, Principal, Speech and Language Pathologist, Nurse... and select teacher meet on a bi-weekly basis to review students in the SST/RTI process, students in the special education process (reevals, referrals, etc), attendance concerns, teacher concerns/problem solving etc.

What science topics do you cover in September and October? We include some seasonal topics such as seasons and some learning about lifecycles (monarch butterflies, pumpkins and apples), but we are looking for some different, non-seasonal topics.

For all of my fellow ELA gurus: what are some ways I can help elementary teachers (for both reading and math) by teaching the parts of words in my math intervention block? I talk about vocabulary all the time (because chances are that is the reason why my students did poorly on an assessment; lack of vocabulary knowledge) but what is a more intentional way to help? I'm thinking like 'geo-' in geometry and explaining what that means--but make it fun!

Does anyone have good texts or assessment to help me teach 9th grade reading literature: Compare and contrast the representation of a subject or key scene in two artistic mediums, including what is emphasized absent in each treatment.

How would you plan a lesson for a standard about 9th grade reading literature where you compare and contrast a representation of a subject in two artistic mediums?

What’s a good assessment for a standard in deaf education about kindergarten students learning about colors in sign language?

How would you plan a lesson for a standard about comparing and contrasting key points from 2 different mediums for older students?

How would you plan a lesson for having students evaluate the significance of key individuals leading to the Civil War? (eg Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Fredrick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln)

What is tough for kids about being social?

What is tough for kids about writing an argumentative persuasive essay with logical reasons supported by evidence from relevant sources?

How would you plan a lesson for a standard about comparing and contrasting the representations of the differences between a book and a movie?

How would you teach fourth grade students how to write an argumentative essay using and citing evidence?

What’s a good assessment for a standard about understanding the difference between perspectives within characters?