Our 1st graders can’t get enough of these adorable, engaging Pocket Puppet Books. They love coloring, cutting, gluing, and then reading their books over and over using the puppet to tell the story! The Puppet stays in the library pocket on the back of the front cover until it’s time to read. If these pockets are…
It was 1986. I had just signed my very first teaching contract…to teach 6th grade at a junior high school. My salary for the year was $14,500. (I’m not joking… I figured I could lose a few pounds anyway…) But I was going to have my OWN class! I was so excited I could hardly…
Well, I’ll admit. It was a difficult year for me. Full of challenges, new and old. But after 31 years of teaching, I know that although it might be a rough school year, I have the opportunity to reflect and grow from the experiences from the year…or I can pass on the blame. (I guess…
I couldn’t wait to share with you our 1st Grade Summer Review Workbook! While we continue to learn and grow at the end of the year, we fear the dreaded summer slide for our students. And the summer slide is very real, but preventable if we provide our students with the right tools for the summer months….
May is the month when we make a mad rush to help those students who still need to improve their reading fluency before the end of the year. We read, reread, do repeated timings, work on word attack, improve our expression, partner read, and so much more. But the best and easiest strategy I have…
There are only a few weeks left in the school year to prepare our 1st graders for the rigors of 2nd grade. One thing we can focus on is helping struggling students improve their reading fluency skills! How can we best spend those precious weeks? First and Foremost, improve reading fluency by targeting your instruction…
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