Has Spring Fever hit your students?  Are they tuning out more often than you’d like?  Not paying attention?   How about you?  Has your attention…and energy level…wandered off? Has the gray and rainy…or white and…

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Would you like an idea for teaching vocabulary in 5 minutes and practicing in less than 1 minute?  We’ve got it for you today.  On Tuesday’s Teaching Tips, we’ve been sharing ideas for teaching vocabulary…

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Would you teach more vocabulary if you had some fun and easy ideas to use?  We all know that vocabulary is so important for our students’ success.  After all, the students with the largest vocabulary…

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Vocabulary….such an important thing to teach, but so easy to let it slide, isn’t it?  Why is it so important though?  Vocabulary is essential to understanding and deep thinking! Bottom line is this – students…

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Do You Share? Hey teachers!  Do you do sharing in your class?  No, not show and tell sharing, but literacy sharing after independent reading practice?  It’s the frosting on the cake….the bow in the ponytail….or…

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Hey teachers!  Do you do conferring with your students during independent reading time?  Have you found a note taking method that works for you?  When I started conferring, I tried all kinds of ways to…

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Don’t you just love all of the great literacy resources available from the amazing teacher experts?  If we haven’t said it enough, (but pretty sure we have), Debbie Miller is the best and one of…

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As teachers, we stand on the shoulders of all of the greats who have gone before us.  In Tuesday’s Teaching Tips this year, we will feature great ideas…both old and new…from some of the greatest…

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