These skill-based Secrets can be shared whenever and wherever they are needed throughout the instructional day. The more Secrets kids know, the more they can read and write independently, using the posters to recall the sound patterns for reading and the spelling patterns for writing. A cornerst...
“Answer one question per day [or more than one per day, if you have some to catch up on] in your own secret online10Qspace. Make your answers serious. Silly. Salacious. However you like. It’s your10Q. When you’re finished, hit the magic button and your answers get sent to the...
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“There’s so many things that influence why a kid makes a decision,” Pannkuk said. “We’ve had kids shop lift because they needed hygiene products or candy bars, so it was more a child welfare issue – but then it became a criminal justice issue. For it really to be effective it...
Just before winter break, a tutor I work with in Akron Public Schools stated what had become soberingly obvious based upon students’ December test results: “In order to work with all the third, fourth and fifth graders who need to get to grade level, we have to sacrifice our time with...
It is time to startreading cvc words. For the last few months, we have built words, replaced beginning sounds, changed the ending sounds, and filled in missing vowels. But now it is time to read. One of my twins is taking off. He loves the simple books filled with CVC words, and ...
But where’s the instructional value in justlookingat words day in and day out, or even worse, in all of the time we spend memorizing words because kids don’t know how to read them? When you can’t read the words,lookingandmemorizingare the only options, especially for beginning grade...
Evergreen Elementary 5th graders penned caring letters to seniors living in quarantine. Evergreen Elementary fifth grade students wrote letters to assisted living facility residents during the first weeks of quarantine. “Hopefully you’ll get to see your friends and family soon,” offered one caring...
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