Do you have students who struggle to learn how to spell once the curriculum moves beyond phonics? Do you have students who just can’t seem to hold onto all those rules that we teach for spelling? Does your school system even have a spelling program? And if so, does it have a modified spelling program for struggling spellers? My son…
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We all have a love-hate relationship with reading fluency. Though all students benefit from fluency work, focused activities like repeated reading (for the millionth time) especially help struggling, word-by-word readers, word callers, and readers who sound fluent but lack comprehension. (Does your need some freshening up like mine?–KEEP READING) As a whole–struggling readers have spent more instructional time learning decoding…
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Do you teach cursive handwriting at your school? We do. The students learn all of their cursive letters and connections before they get to me, but they need a cursive review the first few weeks of school during back to school. I use these Back to School Cursive Practice pages to assess how much students remember and to give a…
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Spelling patterns and generalizations are the basis of teaching students to read and write. People often believe that there aren’t spelling patterns in English because there are so many “exceptions” to the rule. This is why we add “generalizations” to the end of spelling patterns. English is a language made of multiple other languages, but there are still general rules…
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I teach immigration to my second graders and found it hard to find solid reading passages for second and third graders on this topic. Therefore, I created this freebie! It includes a reading passage with two difficulty levels for differentiation and there are also follow up questions to the reading passage. The topic is why people immigrated to America in…
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