Category: teaching
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The author describes using calming morning meetings with special education middle schoolers to address anxiety and enhance readiness for learning. These meetings adapt yearly based on student needs.
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Read about morning meetings on my teaching blog through this link.
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I’ve changed how I teach reading foundational skills to my students. I use a combination of Reading Horizons, the science of reading, and their IEP goals. Let’s walk through how I teach foundational skills during small group instruction: What is this word? We read the word together. How many sounds or phonemes? (Honestly I usually…
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The original post I wrote about this tragedy. June 2009 – Two events occurred in my teaching career. One event made me proud while the other broke my heart into a million pieces. One of my students from my first 3 years of my teaching career was selected by the University of Louisville to play…
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This school year I had a fifth grade student who had sight word recognition as one of her goals. Specifically she was to identify fourth grade sight words. So where did I find a list of sight words that she could use? I used this website. The website has the Fry list which is my favorite…
