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positivelypersistentteach:

Spelling with legos.

I used this idea before I found it on blogs when I did literacy interventions.  It really helped some students — especially by putting blends, digraphs, and vowel pairs together.

toseealambatschool:

A fun way to display a short, summer poem.

Illiteracy in America

(Source: amandaonwriting, via teachingtotransform)

babsblogs:

I just finished creating this facebook worksheet for Romeo and Juliet. Students will use this worksheet to summarize events in acts from the perspective of individual characters. Each table group will have one student assigned to a character in the act, assuring that each group has no character duplicates. Students will then use post it notes to “comment” on activity on other character facebooks from the perspective of their own assigned character.

If anyone wants a higher resolution of this worksheet, let me know and I’ll email it to you. This image can be printed off on a 8x11 piece of paper.

(via teachertoolbox)

theteachersdesk:

Guided Reading Beach Balls! 

Here you can purchase two multicoloured beach balls and a resource guide. One ball has 6 open-ended phrases and the other ball has 6 questions.

After reading a story assemble your students in a circle and toss one of the balls around the room. Whatever section the students right thumb lands on, they have to answer that question. 

What a fun way to reinforce comprehension! 

Source: Pinterest

(via theteachersdesk-deactivated2013)

(Source: fauxdeity)