Often when you are teaching young students to read, those essential foundation skills like segmenting that are 'oh so necessary' can sometimes get tedious and boring. You know your students need them, but face it, after doing the same routine a couple of days in a row, attention and engagement begin to wane. So it's important to have an arsenal of tools in your toolbox that can help keep these skills interesting and students on task. If you can find tools that appeal to various senses, ... VIEW POST
Keep Segmenting Engaging for Young Learners
Hide and Seek Games for Essential Skills
You know when you have 5 minutes before a special or lunch and it's not enough time to start something new but you want to make sure you are using every spare minute of the day . . . because that time is precious right? Well, I have an amazingly easy game that students LOVE and it's not fluff. They are actually practicing essential skills . . . they just don't know it. Hide and Seek to the rescue for essential skill practice where everyone's a winner! Hide And Seek To The Rescue The ... VIEW POST
Help For Handwriting
Handwriting instruction can be tricky and frustrating for students and for teachers. With more and more students coming to early childhood classrooms with fewer and fewer fine motor skills, this is now more true than ever before. I promise you, my classroom is no exception. You will see funky pencil grips in my classroom pictures or no grip at all because students do not have the strength or stamina for fine motor when they come to me. Even the brightest students struggle with writing ... VIEW POST
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