Organizing and keeping track of student academic information and progress doesn’t have to be a time-consuming task. Effectively setting up and updating student files can lead to a smooth year. Follow these steps to set up working student files that can be accessed quickly for that last minute meeting, and shared with a new team …
Starting a new year can be hectic, and even more so if it is your first year teaching resource. I’ve compiled a back-to-school to do list for resource teachers or any teacher wanting to build diagnostic portfolio for their children. Set Up a Filing System Prepare Your Assessments Make copies and familiarize yourself with the …
Need to get your children to WRITE effectively without hearing, “Miss, I have no idea what to write about”or “Mr., I don’t know”? Help them find their inner motivation, and to create an intrinsic love for writing. Use visual templates and story prompts for each theme and watch their little minds creatively write away all …
Will there be 6 more weeks of winter? I use this holiday as an opportunity to teach my students about groundhogs! My non-fiction teaching book is about groundhogs and can be found in this bundle (or any book will do). Here’s a sneak peak of the book I use: We review the groundhog vocabulary on our word wall, …
Session 1: Phonemic Awareness / Phonics I begin every session with a quick 2 mins of having each student read our weekly 5 sight words and orally use them in a sentence. Once this short brain exercise is complete, I move on to the vocabulary part. Introduce your next menu words from the SoundPrints program. This …
Read about how I set up my resource room. Even though my classroom is small, I maximized the space to make it functional and effective for teaching. I usually work with 5 students at a time, hence the 5 grey chairs around the circular table. I love that I have a whiteboard behind where I …