The Halloween season is upon us! This can be such a fun and exciting time for students. There is so…
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My Mouth Is A Volcano
When teaching young children, it is important to help them learn control and restraint when it comes to speaking out…
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Tryin’ Lion Reading Strategy
Every good teacher knows how important it is to have strategies in place to help their young learners as they…
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Dotty Giraffe Reading Strategy
Getting our young learners to understand punctuation, inflection, and expression when reading and writing can seem like a big challenge….
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Base Ten Blocks for Teaching Place Value
Young students often think of numbers much differently than we do. In fact, math concepts in general are quite abstract….
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Do Unto Otters Social Emotional Learning
As teachers, we all know that academic skills and concepts are not the only things that we teach. In fact,…
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The Recess Queen Activities
During those first few weeks of back to school, it is really important to set classroom standards and expectations. I…
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We Don’t Eat Our Classmates Book Activities
Starting out a new school year can be an overwhelming and sometimes a scary time for students. They have a…
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Fun Activities to Teach the SH Digraph
Congratulations! Your students have mastered single letter sounds and are probably reading basic sentences. What a fun thing to watch…
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Flippy Dolphin Reading Strategy
Vowel sounds can be especially tricky for our beginning readers. Just when they get used to the short vowel sound…
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Decoding Unknown Words with Skippy Frog
Hooray! Your students are reading sentences. It’s taken a lot of hard work, patience, and some really clever reading strategies…
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L Blends Anchor Chart and Activities
Learning to read is just hard! We start with the alphabet and letter sounds and jump into simple CVC words….
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