Memorial Day: A Day To Remember

Memorial Day in America is a day to remember those who gave their lives for our freedom.  Many people also …

10 Strategies for Surviving Until Summer

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Syllables... and Then Some

Did you know there were 6 kinds of syllables? Knowing the different kinds of syllables will help the c…

Learning Math Facts With Cuisenaire Rods

A Few Thoughts About Fluency

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My Traditional Mother's Day Gift

You've Given the QPS, Now What?

My last post was about using the Quick Phonics Screener to find where students have reading deficits.  If t…

Assessing Reading Difficulties

How do you find out what the children need for Reading RTI (Response to Intervention) time? Our dist…

More Random Tidbits About Our Language Reading Teachers Should Know

I'm sharing more ideas that I learned from my LETRS  (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spe…

Random Tidbits About Our Language Reading Teachers Should Know

A couple of weeks ago, I went to a 4-day LETRS training session.  LETRS stands for Language Essentials for T…

Twelve Strategies to Get From Working Memory to Long Term Memory

Seven Brain Based Learning Principles

A Fun Way to Present Research!

An Easter Warning and an Easter Tradition

Eight Ways to Spice Up April Fool's Day

Area or Perimeter?

St. Patrick's Day and Family Heritage

Believe it or not, this is my third post this week about St. Patrick's Day! I'm thinking I must reall…

Ten Ways I Have Grown as a Teacher from Blogging

This will be my tenth set of ten! If you haven't been following my blog, I decided to celebrate my 100t…

Ten Things to do With 1000 Numbers

Ten Easy Learning Games

Ten Things for Students to do While You're Teaching Reading Groups