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A guest post by first grade teacher, Karrie Kehrig. Teacher Overwhelm It was the first week of October, and even though school hadn’t started until the end of August, I was already feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. As a hybrid classroom for distance learning, I have 22 students in person and 7 online, and teaching […]
Secret Stories® Phonics Supplements on Teachers Pay Teachers I apologize for the looooong delay between blog posts, but like all of you, my time away wasn’t due to a wonderful summer vacation. Nope! On the contrary, I feel like there was NO summer this year, just a crazy-long Spring that somehow turned into Fall. And […]
How to Know if Your Phonics Instruction is Really Working by Kristina Weller, author of Writing and Laughing Blog Yeah, I know. Super sexy blog title! You’re probably here because of that burning question: How do I know if my phonics instruction is actually working? Well, I have two answers for you, but first, a little […]
The following post has been reprinted with permission from https://parisjeske.com. Where to start? The past six or so months, Finley has really picked up on reading and it has become one of my favorite parts of our homeschool day. We don’t use any specific curriculum, but are slightly more structured than “unschooling.” While I’m certainly […]
How to Teach Reading to English Language Learners I went from knowing nothing about phonics to becoming a “code-cracking” expert, and then I helped my kids do the same! By Ariana Curcó, pre-k/kindergarten Teacher in Monterrey, Mexico If you’re anything like me and/or if you’re here, reading this, it’s because you’re doing everything you can […]
(This post was originally posted on I Teach What’s Your Super Power Blog, and excerpts pertaining to the Secret Stories® have been shared here, with permission from the author.) Struggling Readers and the Phonics Divide I had never heard of the Secret Stories until a teacher I thought highly of at a previous school swore by it with […]
A guest post by second grade teacher, Kelli Gunkle. Struggling Readers + Failing School = No Time for “Cute” My name is Kelli Gunkle and I am a second grade teacher in Daytona Beach, Florida. I have been teaching for 5 years in a low-income, DDD, turn-around school with many struggling readers. If you are […]
A Guest Post By Melissa Gregory —Kindergarten Teacher at Title I School in Ohio Kindergarten- End of October Who says kindergartners can’t have access to ALL of the code needed to read and write in a short amount of time???? By the end of the FIRST NINE WEEKS, these cuties are taking off in reading […]
Dyslexia, Reading, Phonics & the Brain Dyslexia So what is dyslexia? Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is often genetic, and that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the phonological […]
How to Teach First Graders About Persuasive Writing Teaching persuasive writing is not easy, and getting kids excited about doing it — especially first graders — is even harder! But not when there are leprechauns involved…. Now you might be thinking, “This lady is crazy! Look at that mess! Why would anyone purposely ransack their […]
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