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Teaching Prefixes
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1st Grade
Teaching Shades of Meaning
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HG Phonics Club: Building Fluency and Confident Readers
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Building Sentences, Expanding Sentences & Types of Sentences
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Teaching Suffixes
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Teaching Dialogue and Point of View
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Context Clues: Becoming Word Savvy
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Worms and NOUNS
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Teaching Main Idea and Details
This week in my classroom I'm going to be teaching my students to...
BrainBox Short Vowels Phonics Centers: Hands-On Practice for First and Second Grade
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Guided Reading and The Reading Process: Step 1 Pre-Reading
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BrainBox Sentence Writing Centers – Fun, No Prep Activities for 1st and 2nd Grade
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How to Teach Students to Ask Questions When they Read – First Reading Lesson Plans of the Year
From the moment my students enter my classroom it is my goal to help...
multiple meaning words
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Prepositions
In our classroom we have been learning all about prepositions. I...
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