How do you teach self assessment to students?
Have you ever utilized letter or word sorts to early literacy skill building?
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When I am teaching my students trick words, I make sure that I teach them ways to remember the words. For example when I teach my students how to spell the word together, I teach them that the word has the words to, get, and her in it. After a month or so my students are able to teach each other tricks to spell words and begin to identify words or parts that they see in certain words. They are so proud of themselves and are very confident.
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As part of our MTSS and RTI process we meet as a mult-disciplinary team biweekly to discuss students new to the Student Study Team (SST), those already in the process- how they are making process etc. or lack of process etc. This is an example of one of the forms we created and use during this time.
How do you problem solve or brainstorm with your multi-disciplinary team when students are not showing progress?
What are your strategies for building trust with students who seem withdrawn or reluctant to engage?
Each student is different. Here are some ideas that I have used.
1. Go back to your beginning of the year student surveys. Find an interest of this student and build it into a lesson. Mention their name as you talk about this interest.
2. Warn this student quietly that you are going to ask them to answer the next question so they are prepared.
3. Give the student a note with a positive message or email the parent with a positive message.
4. Ask the student to help you do something to prepare for a lesson. Draw the picture. Set up the equipment. Engage the student in a conversation while you do this.
What other strategies have you tried?
What are some morning meeting activities that are low prep for a 5th grade class?
What is an effective tool that I can use in my classroom to support learning?
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How do you support phonemic awareness in your classroom? What simple activities do you include with your early learners?
Answer: Sound Cubes! Sound cubes are wooden or foam colored cubes that can be used to help students manipulate the sounds in words.
My students are learning about money in 2nd grade. I teach them a strategy called hairy money to help them to learn about the value of coins. Does anyone use a different strategy to help students learn how to count money?
Does anyone have any experience with using Canva? If so what have you used it for? I have just began to use it this year. I have created sight word videos and a video about different types of measurement tools.
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What are some engaging ways to teach young students about environmental sustainability?
A few years ago, I got a roll of paper from Target and started writing quotes on it to post outside my door for students to read. It turns out that it wasn't just students who were reading it -- adults did too and would stop by to tell me the ways they related to do the quote. What are some ways you commit to the culture of your school?
What is an effective intervention strategy for students struggling with reading comprehension for early readers?
An effective intervention strategy for students struggling with reading comprehension for early readers includes explicit instruction that focuses on fluency. Fluency is often misunderstood as it is about the accuracy and automaticity in word recognition and prosody (meaningful expression), therefore, it includes the ability to demonstrate the understanding of the meaning of text by the way it is read aloud. Utilizing the Voice Jar (voices) and repeated readings will help students build skills necessary to become proficient readers.
