Watch this Awesome Guy show us his amazing growth in hand skills in one year’s time.
It all began here when he learned to isolate his index finger, but take a look at him now!
Also learn an Occupational therapist’s trick for teaching pencil grasp to a child with low muscle tone and poor hand strength!
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The Teachers Pay Teachers “Teacher Appreciation” Sale takes place on May 5 and May 6, 2015. I can hardly wait! Everything in my store will be discounted at 20% off. Don’t forget to use the COUPON CODE to get an additional discount. The COUPON CODE is: ThankYou. Remember to click on the “APPLY” button when you are ready to make your purchases.
One thing that I love about Teachers pay Teachers sales is that the coupons are endless! The coupon code works no matter how many times I shop. If I go shopping on May 5th and forget an item, I can always go back later and use the coupon code again. But . . . once the sale is over with, the coupon code won’t work.
I’ve been busy creating new products and am excited to show you a few here. This is my first post on The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs Marketing Cooperative WordPress blog. Therefore, I am not sure how all the bells and whistles work but it will be fun to take her for a test drive.
Sight Words Practice
Letter Recitation Practice Sheets
Numeral Recognition
Concept of Word Tracking Sheets
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Post by Molly McMahon, Lessons by Molly
As educators, we have all kinds of fun activities and strategies for teaching and reinforcing sight words for reading and writing. Many of them involve practicing these words out of context. The point of Sight Word Recognition is to be able to recognize these words at a glance, in isolation. But all of the practice needn’t be.
I am in the early stages of creating a series of readers called ‘Sight Word Stages’ readers to help teachers differentiate for their students within the same reading level. While some of our students may struggle with putting all of the pieces of the reading puzzle together and need to work on that, there are many others who simply have difficulty remembering, and who require extra opportunities to practice using these little words in context.
Here is an example of a DRA/Reading Recovery Level 2 Reader:
A color PDF is included in the package, indicating the sight words of focus on the cover.
I print these on thicker paper, laminate them and keep them with other guided reading books.
Directional support is provided with the go to stop method.
A regular black and white copy is provided. Students can color and keep these, if you wish.
A trace-the-sight-word copy is provided for students requiring this level of support.
A fill-in-the-blanks copy is also provided for each title.
Supplementary Materials:
Color and black & white sentence strips (Tip: Print color copy onto card paper and laminate, and store with color readers for reuse)
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Color and black & white Self-Check lists (I have a laminated color one on the wall over the writing table with a dry-erase marker, but know classroom teachers who give each child their own black and white copy, one who shrinks it to half-size. Early finishers draw or practice words on the back!)
Sometimes – there’s a surprise bonus activity – particularly in the bundles. Check the previews!
Here is what is currently available in the Sight-Word-Stages Readers Series:
Please note that freebies will not contain all of the parts mentioned above.
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More titles coming Summer 2015! Save with bundles!
Are there any particular themes you would like to see covered in these early levels? Please leave a comment and let me know! (Easter and Earth Day are already started in draft!) Have a wonderful spring day, and pop into my store for a visit sometime by clicking my button!
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Mother’s Day is right around the corner! Check out my new Mother’s Day Keepsake Book!
A Book Written in Verse
This engaging ABC Book (written in verse) is fun for students to complete and meaningful for moms to receive as a Mother’s Day Keepsake Gift. Students personalize the books by using their best observations and memories about their moms to complete the pages.
This product includes:
To complete the book, each student will:
This project is best completed over the course of several days! Check out the Preview to get an idea of the verses and the activities.
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The Dealing-With-Feelings Series by That Fun Reading Teacher #DWF
Let me start by thanking those of you who have made these stories so popular over the past six months. This post is dedicated to you in gratitude. You have buoyed my confidence to continue along this path.
This is how this series came to be.
| For the past few years, I have been a Special Education teacher to young children. Just a few years ago, while using social stories in integrated kindergarten classrooms with my students with autism, I noticed that their classmates were benefiting from them, too! The social stories I was using were written specifically for the child they were being used with, and parts of these stories had little relevance to their classmates. They seemed to be very interested in, and to find comfort in other parts of them. | |||
| It occurred to me that many children could benefit from stories that were like social stories, but meant for more of a general audience of young children: Characters role-modeling the how-to’s of dealing with tricky feelings. (We all know how motivated we are when someone TELLS us how to handle something!)Even in kindergarten, some children were already uncomfortable about discussing feelings. Research, parenting, teaching and talking to each other tells us that natural conversation only comes from a willing participant, especially one who initiates it. | |||
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I find myself turning to these stories more often recently.
In September, there were a few sad little people who found comfort in reading about another boy or girl who was sad to say good-bye in the morning, too.
When big kids kicked down snow forts and others were ‘stealing’ snowballs in January, reading about how kids dealt with anger was received a lot better than some of the strategies I’ve used in the past.
Who knew that the phrase ‘use your words’ could result in an airborne chair?
When the temperatures took a dive resulting in clusters of indoor recesses, well, let’s just say that it wasn’t only students benefiting from the When I Feel Frustrated books.
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What feelings would you like to see dealt with in upcoming books? What are some strategies that you think should be included?
Watch for new titles Summer 2015…
Thank you to Rebekah Brock, whose clip art brought these stories alive!
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