From the moment my students enter my classroom it is my goal to help...
1st Grade Hands On Reading
HG Phonics Club: Building Fluency and Confident Readers
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Guided Reading and The Reading Process: Step 1 Pre-Reading
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Teaching Main Idea and Details
This week in my classroom I'm going to be teaching my students to...
Teaching Suffixes
This week in my classroom it's been all about SUFFIXES!! We started...
Teaching Dialogue and Point of View
It's MARCH!!! WOOHOOO! But... it's also been SNOWING all day. I'm...
Teaching Shades of Meaning
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Teaching Prefixes
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Context Clues: Becoming Word Savvy
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Building Sentences, Expanding Sentences & Types of Sentences
I love teaching. It's the thing that I know I'm good at. The one...
Worms and NOUNS
Well.... We've made it through 16 FULL days of first grade! My...
Prepositions
In our classroom we have been learning all about prepositions. I...
multiple meaning words
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