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make/take for ELL parents

by ruth

Jan 24, 2011

I have to do a presentataion for K-1 parents on how to help their children with reading at home. Any ideas? Also, since the session is 55 long, I would like to do a make/take for the ELL parents. Any ideas? What has worked well with you?

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101 Persuasive Essay Topics

by Morton

Jan 27, 2011

Check out this cool list of 101 persuasive essay topics. Some of the topics are tried and true and other ones are original and relevant.

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AR/Renaissance Program Alternatives

by Krista

Jan 30, 2011

At a previous school we used AR/Reading Renaissance to promote and reinforce reading and comprehension with the AR program/points. It is not available at my school now. Can anyone recommend viable alternatives?

Thank you!

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Letter to parents in Spanish

by ruth

Jan 31, 2011

Does anyone have a letter written in Spanish on how parents can help their children at home succeed in reading. This is for grades K-2. Thanks

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How to teach inferencing to struggling 7th grader?

by Joe

Jan 31, 2011

I am teaching two 7th grade special ed students (struggling readers...approx 5th grade level). What are some good activities or lessons to teach inferencing. I would like them to be able practice and then apply what they know while they read. Thank you.

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Ed I like logic puzzle for teaching inferencing. It's an indirect way of teaching it but if you teach them to develop deductive reasoning and then teach them to deduce and infer when reading longer bits of text they have a frame of reference and an experience being successful. Students like the logic puzzles but start with the easier levels because ev...See More

Feb 9, 2011

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agsrule! Use Comic strips. They have to infer what the joke is because it's not said outright.

Picture book called Goodbye Book by Judith Viorst. It only has the words of the child, so I have my students fill in the words of the parent based on what the child says.

Grocery receipts and shopping lists allow students to infer what meal is go...See More

Feb 10, 2011

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New Common Core Standards

by Lauren

Feb 1, 2011

My district is about to start writing curriculum using the new common core standards...anybody started the process yet? Any sample units to share?

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proofreading---very funny

by funnygurl

Feb 4, 2011

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inspirational story

by Randall Beaird

Feb 10, 2011

One of our biggest challenges as teachers is motivating our students to take academics seriously. Sure, we can capture their attention and have them buy-in on our mini-lessons, but when it comes to the bigger picture, their ownership of their overall success, we sometimes struggle. "Your House of Education,' a nine minute cartoon with unique animat...See More

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LM Has anyone taken the Praxis and found a study guide they can recommend? Saw mention of many guides that are either outdated or do not contain reliable informaion on another chatboard, so I am still trying to see if there is a reliable one.

Thanks for any suggestions, LM

Feb 10, 2011

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Megan Sills On 2/10/11, Randall Beaird wrote: > One of our biggest challenges as teachers is motivating our > students to take academics seriously. Sure, we can capture > their attention and have them buy-in on our mini-lessons, > but when it comes to the bigger picture, their ownership of > their overall success, we sometimes struggle. "Your Ho...See More

Feb 14, 2011

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teaching parables

by Coach Joy

Feb 14, 2011

Looking for parables to use with my 7th graders-- would like to avoid religious ones.

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Annette On 2/14/11, Coach Joy wrote: > Looking for parables to use with my 7th graders-- would > like to avoid religious ones.

What about Aesop's fables?

Mar 3, 2011

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kindergarten Writing Ideas

by Cfor

Feb 16, 2011

Although I do writing journals, I am in need of more writing ideas for literacy centres for my 5 and 6 year olds to move them along. Your ideas on how to get them ready for grade one are welcome, please. Next Post >>

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ideas to share On paper you create a box for drawing a picture and below it you add enough lines (widely spaced) for kids to write. Choose a topic like:

Let me tell you all about my mid winter break! What I hope we see on our field trip is... Next year in first grade I hope to learn... or Good News from Home! My favorite book is My favorite game/T.V. Sho...See More

Feb 22, 2011

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ret 1. Mixed up words to put together to make a sentence, then students write sentence in own handwriting, illustrate meaning of sentence

2. Dictionary WRiting - one letter per page, use good handwriting to write capital and lowercase letter, then draw 4 pictures that begin with the letter on page and write the word under the picture (or use ...See More

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