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Sound boxes can be powerful tools for helping students learn how to hear and record sounds in words. Using them can lead to greater independence in writing and improve students’ ability to use phon...
Continue reading: Video Teaching Tip: Using Sound Boxes During Guided WritingI hope you’ll check out my latest Teaching Tip Video below! This time, I’m sharing methods for using sound boxes to help students learn how words work. You’ll see me using useful tools like the ABC...
Continue reading: Video Teaching Tip: Using Sound Boxes During Word StudyHello everyone! I hope you enjoyed my last video tip about when to encourage students to use their reading finger and when to have them stop. In this next Video Teaching Tip, I’m sharing my thought...
Continue reading: Video Teaching Tip: Helping Students Who Have Trouble TrackingThis month, I’m sharing tips via video! How can you get students to use one-to-one matching? Check out the video below for concrete advice about helping readers at levels A, B, C, and beyond. I als...
Continue reading: Video Teaching Tip: Improving Reading Through One-to-One MatchingDo you have students in your classroom who are not easily discouraged and pick themselves up and try again even when something is hard? It’s great working with these students. But what about the ot...
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Students love seeing their own names in print, and that’s one reason that I love creating stories for BookBuilder Online. It’s simple to add names, print out the book, and assemble the story for cl...
Continue reading: New Springtime BookBuilder StoriesLearning to compare and contrast different ideas deepens students’ understanding of what they read. How should you begin? Have students think of a question that compares and contrasts concepts, cha...
Continue reading: Analyzing Relationships: Learning to Compare and ContrastOne of the most important things for an emergent reader to learn is to check that what they read makes sense, looks right, and sounds right. This is called self-monitoring. Often the teacher does t...
Continue reading: Early Emergent Readers: Learning to Self-Monitorliteracy footprints teaching tips
In my last post, I shared a video of educator, Amy Ferris, sharing about the data-driven teaching methods she is implementing at her kindergarten-only school in Richmond, Kentucky. My next data sto...
Continue reading: Teaching Tip: Collecting and Using Data to Inform Teaching, Part Two!Many years ago, I was sitting in the Columbus, Ohio, airport after presenting at the National Reading Recovery conference. I eavesdropped on a conversation across the aisle, and that’s how I met Ma...
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