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Have you ever thought what you were following was piecemeal? And if the publisher would just do this or that it would be so much better?

Why not develop your own program and make it fit your own needs? When I taught phonics, my spelling words were the phonics lesson I was teaching. Their handwritng lessons and their spelling lessons were based on their phonics lessons . Everything was reinforcement, reinforcement, reinforcement.

I know most of you have to follow the school's program, but if you have a opportunity to use your own materials and to change the program, use your imagination to get the most for your and the children's time.

In language arts, Be sure to use Handwritng as a time to reinforce what you are teaching, Capital letters for People's names, beginning of sentences, correct punctuation and use of quotations in dialogue, etc.
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Gracie On 3/19/09, Tanya =^..^= wrote: > > Hi Gracie, > > > When I taught phonics, my spelling words were the > phonics lesson I was teaching. > > Could you please tell me more about this? I would be > interested to know which words went with which phonics > lessons. > > Thanks! > > Tanya _________________________...See More
Mar 19, 2009
Samantha/NC our series-incorporated those rules and words--why make them up? as a matter of fact our HB series includes everything from phonics to grammar and writing Samantha

On 3/19/09, Gracie wrote: > On 3/19/09, Tanya =^..^= wrote: >> >> Hi Gracie, >> >> >> When I taught phonics, my spelling words were the >>...See More
Mar 19, 2009
Gracie If it follows in what you are doing, then great. Then incorporate those words in your Handwriting exercise for the day! Cool, huh?! I only said that because I wrote up my own whole curriculum except for reading, lol.

On 3/19/09, Samantha/NC wrote: > our series-incorporated those rules and words--why make them up? > as a matter of fac...See More
Mar 19, 2009
Janet/NY/1 We're using Harcourt, Storytown, and for each lesson, everything is connected. It's wonderful. The spelling words following the sound pattern of the week. The words show up in the story in the anthology, the leveled readers have a text connection to the anthology, etc.

It's amazing how it's all pulled together.

And, I don't have...See More
Mar 20, 2009
jo/ma Harcourt Trophies also has everything connected - spelling, phonics, grammar, reading and writing.

On 3/20/09, Janet/NY/1 wrote: > We're using Harcourt, Storytown, and for each lesson, everything is > connected. It's wonderful. The spelling words following the sound > pattern of the week. The words show up in the story in the ant...See More
Mar 20, 2009


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