Improve reading by learning how to teach sight words using a research-based method. Perfect for teachers working with the Fry words. With limited time to teach reading, it makes sense to focus on teaching words students will encounter frequently. Enter: the Fry Words. Dr. Edward Fry developed a list of the most commonly used words…
Inside: Busy teachers need to get up and running with the Seesaw app quickly! Try these 3 fast ways to put together Seesaw activities for your students. T o really frustrate teachers, throw a new app or program at them every year. Then expect that they’ll make magic with it in the classroom. Also, provide…
Inside: Find out how to use basic Seesaw tools and features so that your students can learn a lot from digital assignments. Have you decided that Seesaw is the right app for sending digital work to your students? Now you need to know: What can kids actually DO with Seesaw? At the most…
Inside: Seesaw is an app for online learning. Can it simplify and improve your instruction? Find out inside! In the spring of 2020, teachers suddenly needed a way to deliver instruction from a distance. How would K-2 students complete work on a computer? They are slow typers. They need to draw and move things around.…
Strategies, interventions, and activities to improve reading skills in kids with dyslexia, for teachers and parents. This post contains affiliate links. When Reading Skills Aren’t Clicking Lauren* sorted cards with -at endings into one pile and -am endings into another pile. Then she read the -at list: “Bat, cat, sat, …happy?” guessed Lauren. “Let’s use…
Inside: Follow these five steps to teach a child to read. Helpful for parents, homeschoolers, and teachers that are teaching beginning readers. This post contains affiliate links. I looked like a mother hen with my chick gathered around me. Sitting on the floor with my legs crossed, I stared into six eager pairs…
Research about and best practices for teaching spelling in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade classroom. Do you ever feel like your teacher prep program left you with some major gaps? Like, how the heck do you really teach spelling? We’re probably all familiar with the technique of assigning lists and testing at the…
If you’re not asleep during staff meetings, you’ve probably heard the phrase “research-based practices” thrown around a lot. Do you silently ask yourself, “Sooo, which practices are research-based anyway?” I don’t know about you but it’s been a little while since I originally learned about the people who did some of the major research in…
#1 Have Them Help Demonstrate – Your first instinct might be to choose a model student to help demonstrate a task. Try picking a student who struggles to follow directions instead. You may have to give them a lot of guidance as they demonstrate in front of the class but then you know they have…
Reading Strategies What reading strategies do students need to learn, anyway? It would be so nice if the standards would just spell it out for us! Unfortunately, I’ve never seen that. I’ve racked my brain and made this cheat sheet of the reading strategies I’ve frequently seen in teacher’s guides, professional books, and trainings. Click…