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Derby Day in the Classroom – Tips and Ideas for Teachers
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Developing Brain Pathways with Phonics Instruction
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Thanksgiving Escape Room Mystery – The Case of the Missing Thanksgiving Dinner
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Balloons Over Broadway Reading Comprehension and STEM for the Classroom
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Teaching Phonics in the Classroom with Decoding Drills and Decodable Activities
Decoding is the process of reading words! AUTOMATIC WORD RECOGNITION...
HG Phonics Club: Building Fluency and Confident Readers
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Guided Reading and the Reading Process – Step 2 READING
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Guided Reading and The Reading Process: Step 1 Pre-Reading
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Decoding Drills for Fluency – Phonics Fast Reads
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Reading is MAKING MEANING with Kevin Henkes Author Study
At the beginning of each school year my goal is for my students to...
Teaching Dialogue and Point of View
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Word Sorts in the Classroom
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Context Clues: Becoming Word Savvy
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Building Sentences, Expanding Sentences & Types of Sentences
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Worms and NOUNS
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