Building Vocabulary and Oral Language

I've been taking LETRS training.  LETRS stands for Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling.  It has been a great opportunity to learn about recent research and studies on best practices on reading and spelling instruction.

Come see some of the things I learned about Vocabulary and Oral Language as related to reading over at Elementary Matters.

Complete It

A freebie station designed to identify complete and incomplete sentences as well as practice writing complete ones using correct conventions can be scooped up at I Love 2 Teach.

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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly on the First Day

We had a great first day of school in my class!  We had some great things happen, a few not so great things happen, and I confessed to my blogging friends a little first day of school secret.  Come on by Elementary Matters and read all about our first day, and download our graphing freebie!

I ♥ Technology Thursday

If this might interest your students...



then come on over!

Simply 2nd Resources

Heart Map for Prewriting

I am not an artist.

We are just beginning our year, so I wanted to get my students thinking about what they can write about. So many times, I have to give them a prompt, but I do try to let them free write periodically. I wanted them to have something to pull from that was personal. 

I didn't want to give them a template. I wanted it to be unique to each student. I showed them my example and here are some of the results!

Jump to Simply 2nd Resources to see more examples!

3 Freebies and An Apology

Please come visit me at I Love 2 Teach to grab some freebies and read my apology.

I've whipped up a couple of Language Arts freebies and one freebie that can be used across curriculum areas.

Finally!

They FINALLY let me into my classroom so I could FINALLY get set up!  It was a colossal undertaking, but I got it done in just a couple of days.  (With a LOT of help!)

Come on over to Elementary Matters for Before and After pictures!  

Time to Celebrate!

Today is a day to celebrate!!!

Come on over to check out the celebration!!

You won't want to miss out!

Hey, How 'Bout That?

What would you buy if you won a $10 gift certificate at Amazon?  At this time of year, especially, something for school, of course!

Come on over to Elementary Matters to see what I bought.  I also have some interesting quotes from "Meet and Greet the Teacher" night at my school.  Quotes from kids are always good for a smile!

Rockin' Teacher Materials: Lakeshore Rhyming Houses & b and d Reversals

Rockin' Teacher Materials: Lakeshore Rhyming Houses & b and d Reversals:  This is a huge hit in my classroom. Come on over and check them out and grab yourself a 'b and d reversal poster' to boot.




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