We have one little boy at our school that was getting tested for a spot in reading recovery. The teacher asked him to write all the words he...
This is how I learned essay writing: For each paragraph you should have TEXCS (Texas) Topic Sentence Explanation X-ample Concluding Sentence
I believe that its important to have parents involved in their child's education, but homework should certainly be limited. I believe in nightly...
I use a program by Trevor Calkins which teaches and asesses strategy use instead of recall.
The tricky part of timed tests is that all students have different writing speeds and processing time. IMO I don't feel its an accurate way to...
Look up Letterland. Its a program from the UK that teaches letters and letter sounds by relating them to characters. For example, c is "Clever...
Can you try ten frames. For example, can you show them 3 full ten frames, and one with only 2 squares filled. You can show them that the three...
Maybe you could suggest a different tutoring program? One of my students had a retired teacher help him last year, and that really helped.
I had some kids in my room like this last year. He'll need a lot of your assistance and time, but it will be worth it. :3)
I just realized that that may have sounded judgmental.. it certainly wasn't meant that way! :(
Just because he is not doing them quickly does not me he does not know his facts. Some kids have slower processing time, some write slower, some...
We do head and shoulders knees and toes, sing a rainbow for recognition of colour words, chicka chicka boom boom for letters. At least those are...
The first few weeks I let them make words/ play with playdough, read a book from our shelf (the only ones they can take right now) or draw/write...
I did the date as the number of the day because I had a weak group and as the numbers got higher I didn;'t think they could handle it. You could...
We do calendar at the beginning of the year, but after they seem to get it, we do a really quick version (that the students are in charge of) and...
A proud note: "My teacher is proud of me for.... (this part filled out by teacher). They love these! :3)
The book, Growing Readers by Kathy Collins has some really good ideas about organizing a reading workshop that includes minilessons, independent...
I have a Yakker Tracker and the same thing happened. Some of my kids really worked hard to avoid the red light, but a few of the usual suspects...
Wow! That's all I can say! I live in Manitoba, Canada, and we don't have the same kind of requirement at all. I'm not sure my principal has...
Here's the explanation of Diane Gossen's workshop. Restitution I - Introduction to Restitution Restitution focuses on relationships not rules....
