tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85363890628862968412024-03-19T02:25:01.472-05:00Extra Special TeachingAngeliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01523442396725058708noreply@blogger.comBlogger268125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8536389062886296841.post-5643406726329894032016-07-09T14:00:00.001-05:002016-07-09T14:00:42.182-05:00Building Character: Encouraging Problem Solving<div style="text-align: center;">
My focus this school year will be building character with my students. The recent tragic events that have happened in our country have made me even more certain that building character and working on problem solving skills in my classroom are more important than ever. </div>
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As I reflected on last year's students and class, I realize that I should have been more explicit in teaching and modeling how to solve problems between students. I have already been planning for next school year, and I will be heavily focusing on building our classroom's community. One of my main focuses at the beginning of the year will be teaching my students how to solve conflicts between each other.</div>
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We will be doing a lot of modeling and role playing how we can solve the problems that might come up in the classroom. Some of the problems that came up often in last year's class were:</div>
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*He's talking too loud!</div>
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*He's too close to me!</div>
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*He's cutting in line!</div>
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*He's not my friend!</div>
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And yes, I had a class of boys last year! This year will be discussing these issues, and I will be giving my students specific strategies that they can use to solve these problems themselves (and not coming to me for every little thing!). </div>
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In one of my teacher Facebook groups (collaborating and talking to other teachers is my favorite) another teacher suggested a <span id="goog_1805328680"></span><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/4uoj7m0eitdw0rb/Solution%20Wheel.pdf?dl=0">Solution Wheel<span id="goog_1805328681"></span>.</a> What a brilliant idea! I made one for my classroom, because I loved the concept.</div>
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You can download one for your classroom by clicking the picture above.</div>
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We will spend time discussing the difference between small problems and big problems. I also loved the suggestion from the other teacher that she encouraged her students to try 3 solutions before coming to the teacher for help.</div>
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I absolutely love using mentor texts with my students. Mentor texts are so useful for so many things, and I have spent my summer researching and collecting high quality mentor texts for my classroom. Here are some of the mentor texts I will be reading to my students as we discuss problem solving and handling conflicts.</div>
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If you are interested in more mentor texts, I have created a new Instagram page where I will be focusing only on mentor texts. You can follow me at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/extraspecialbooks/">@extraspecialbooks</a> or use #extraspecialbooks if you have some great mentor texts that you would like reposted.</div>
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Hi everyone! It's that fun part of summer where we're busy having BBQs with all of our friends. I don't know about you, but this is one of my favorite parts of the summer. With July 4th coming up, I've already started thinking about what kind of desserts I'll be making. </div>
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I'm teaming up with my blogger friends, <a href="http://www.teachinginparadise.com/">Courtney</a>, <a href="http://www.teaching-with-style.com/">Nicole</a>, and <a href="http://tonyastreatsforteachers.blogspot.com/">Tonya</a> to bring you some meal ideas!</div>
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So here are some of my favorite dessert recipes that are a total hit with my own kids and anyone else who has sampled this deliciousness!</div>
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<a href="http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/peach_crisp_wit/">Peach Crisp with Maple Cream Sauce</a> by <a href="http://thepioneerwoman.com/">The Pioneer Woman</a></div>
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Oh my! This is absolute deliciousness! If you've never tried a Pioneer Woman recipe, you definitely should. Her recipes are easy to make, because she gives you step-by-step photograph instructions. You seriously cannot mess up one of her recipes. </div>
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If you're looking for an easy prep recipe that you can make the day before (or even morning before), this <a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/eclair-cake-recipe.html">Eclair Cake</a> is the perfect dessert. Actually, this dessert is so simple to make that my 10-year-old daughter has taken over as the Eclair Cake maker in my house. Not only is this a chocolatey delight, it's also an ideal dessert on a hot day since it's kept cold. </div>
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<a href="http://sugarapron.com/2015/04/17/strawberry-shortcake-kabobs/">Strawberry Shortcake Kabobs</a> by <a href="http://sugarapron.com/">Sugar Apron</a></div>
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A July 4th BBQ requires some kind of red, white, and blue dessert. These <a href="http://sugarapron.com/2015/04/17/strawberry-shortcake-kabobs/">Strawberry Shortcake Kabobs</a> will definitely be a winner with your guests. I like to add blueberries to mine to help keep with the theme. </div>
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Hi everyone! I'm sure by now you have read many posts and seen many Instagram photos about flexible seating. This past school year, I really started thinking about how flexible seating would work in my classroom and if flexible seating was really even possible.</div>
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I had been reading some of the great blog posts out there, such as this one from Kayla at Top Dog Teaching {<a href="http://www.edutopia.org/blog/flexible-seating-student-centered-classroom-kayla-delzer">here</a>} and even a blog post from Kayla's principal {<a href="http://legacyelementary.blogspot.com/2016/02/all-in-on-flexible-seating-and-why-you.html">here</a>}. Lucky Little Learners {<a href="http://luckylittlelearners.com/2016/01/flexible-seating.html">here</a>} has a great FAQ about how flexible seating works in her classroom, and I used a very similar anchor chart when I first introduced flexible seating with my students.</div>
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We started the year off with this set-up.</div>
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After all of my reading, I stayed late the last day before Christmas break and completely rearranged my classroom. Who does that? I was determined to make it work though and wanted a fresh start in January. My students walked into this after their return from Christmas break.</div>
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Since I was teaching a resource room, my students were already used to sharing community supplies. I kept their pencils, crayons, and scissors in blue baskets. What I found so funny is that my students basically just sat in the same spot as where their desk had been previously.</div>
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The standing desks were a huge hit and one of the most used spots this school year. I had several students who were ADHD and extremely energetic. These were fabulous for those students, and I noticed that they typically chose them on their own as a working space.</div>
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Along the way, I wrote a Donors Choose project for 8 stability balls and was fortunate enough to have it funded pretty quickly.</div>
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I used this front carpet for any whole group instruction that required modeling with the document camera. My students were already used to using clipboards, so this wasn't a new skill for them. However, I quickly realized that stepping over students as I was going back and forth from my document camera to the board was not a good choice.</div>
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Which lead me to buying another rug from Target, and I came up with this set-up. My rule for students was that your body must be on one of the carpets. This way I had an aisle as a walkway for me to go back and forth from the table to my board.</div>
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One day, I happened to come across the highly sought after Scoop Rockers by pure chance. I scooped up four of them, and my students were in love! Have you ever seen anything as adorable as this Kindergartener reading?</div>
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After looking back at this year, I feel like giving my students a choice in their seating was absolutely a positive thing. There were only a few times that I had to make a choice for someone and move them. Whenever that happened, I made them come sit at my kidney table until they could show me that they had earned back their right to choose.</div>
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This month is all about survival in my house. Here are some easy meal suggestions that can be thrown together quickly. Sometimes I just need meal ideas because my mind is burned out from work.</div>
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My kids love club sandwiches. They're super easy to throw together and adding a toothpick makes my kids think it's fancy.</div>
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Chicken Cesar wraps are another go-to meal I can pull together quickly. I usually have my husband grill a few chicken breasts with some kind of seasoning that will go well with Cesar salad. While he's grilling, I put together a Cesar salad from a bag. Then we add the chicken and salad to a wrap. Easy meal that's done!</div>
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Chicken salad sandwiches are so yummy and make great leftovers to take to work the next day. I make my chicken salad with boneless chicken thighs. I feel like chicken thighs just tastier than chicken breasts and use them often instead. To my chicken salad, I add diced celery, green pepper, onion, salt, pepper, and mayonnaise. I dice the vegetables up pretty small though. </div>
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Hi everyone! One of the teachers I work with needed help merging a landscape PDF file with a portrait landscape file. She wanted one PDF file but not every page going in the same direction. </div>
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To help her out (and maybe some others), I made a quick video showing how I merge two files together.</div>
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So many fun things are happening this week in schools across America. In my class, we'll be doing lots of reading rhyming books by a Dr. who cannot be mentioned due to trademark laws and a bunch of other technical stuff.</div>
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t-shirts my team will wear on Wednesday and some other fun stuff my class will be doing.</div>
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A few years ago, I came across this poem somewhere and spruced it up some. It cracks me up every time I read it, especially since I'm drowning in IEPs right now! You can download your copy by clicking {<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/yducxkfgymo5mgq/Do%20You%20Like%20These%20IEPs.pdf?dl=0">here</a>} or the picture below.</div>
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Happy celebrating reading week!</div>
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I know a lot of you are gearing up for the big state tests. I'm fortunate that this year I'm teaching 1st and 2nd graders, so I don't have to worry about high stakes testing THIS year. Who knows what next year will hold though. </div>
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Standardized testing can be so stressful for students (and teachers). Just last week, I found my 4th grade daughter checking the calendar out at 6:45am. Turns out, she was counting the days until standardized testing. Talk about breaking my momma heart. :(</div>
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A few years ago (you can read about that <a href="http://extraspecialteaching.blogspot.com/2011/05/reading-vocabulary-game.html"><span style="color: black;">here</span></a>), I was spending a lot of time doing test prep with my kids when I realized they were struggling just to read the test questions. Some of those words are hard to read! So I went through all of the test prep questions and picked out any of those words that I thought might be tricky, such as italics, paragraph, sidebar, etc., etc. I made a fun game for my students to practice reading tricky words, and it gave us opportunities to discuss the meaning of those words.</div>
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If you downloaded this game a few years ago, you'll want to redownload. I've updated all of my games so that they have easy to read fonts with no confusing letters. Just click on the picture to download your free copy.</div>
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Even though I teach special education students in a resource classroom, I am still expected to teach the general education curriculum and give the assessments that accompany the district-mandated curriculum.</div>
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My students do have accommodations listed on their IEPs for testing, but I want to give them as much support as possible to help them succeed. These are some of the tips I use in my classroom that have really helped my students show mastery on grade level assessments.</div>
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My number one tip is to staple your tests like a book, not in one top corner. I know this is a little more time consuming on your part but so worth it. Flipping pages over, especially on double-sided copies, can be so confusing for struggling students. </div>
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For our math workbook pages, I am very explicit in my instructions, such as "open, flip over, look for the picture of the blue bird" or whatever is on the page. This helps make sure we're all on the right page.</div>
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Our reading tests, have an oral portion where students have to listen to my directions. Unfortunately, this part of the test is in the middle. Strange place to put it if you ask me. I always have my students turn to this page and do this portion first.</div>
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After we have done the oral and grammar portion, we turn back to the story. Even though my students have accommodations, I cannot read the story to them. After all, it is a test of reading and not a test of listening comprehension. </div>
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I always go through the test first and figure out which portion of the text refers to which questions. On this test, question numbers 1 and 2 come from the first page of the story. I tell my students to read the first page and raise their hand. That way my faster readers aren't waiting on my slower readers, and my slower readers aren't rushed.</div>
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The downfall to testing this way is that I do A LOT of walking around from student-to-student. If I wore a Fitbit, I know I'd have way more than 10,000 steps on testing days. But I will say the effort on my part is worth it to see my students succeed on grade level assessments.</div>
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Do you have students that struggle with spelling? Spelling is an area all of my students struggle with in their writing.</div>
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When students are "touch spelling" I always have them hold their pencil in their dominant hand and use their other hand to touch spell. Students will say the word slowly and touch one finger for each sound they say. After the student says each sound, they can then write the word.</div>
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Touch spelling has been HUGE in helping my students write down all the sounds they hear in a word. This is especially helpful with blends. As I watch my students touch spell, I can pinpoint where they are not hearing the sound, such as the 'l' in the word sled. </div>
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If a student has written the word wrong, I will touch spell directly over the word they have written. This helps them easier see if the sound matches up to the word that they've written.</div>
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If a student doesn't know how to spell a word, my go to response is always say the sounds and touch spell. I rarely spell a word for a student since I want to encourage them to write independently.</div>
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Here are some other activities I use to help students understand the spelling of words and how to manipulate sounds.</div>
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Building words is an activity that I use frequently in my classroom. I try to fit this in weekly. It's great for my students to practice listening to sounds, manipulating sounds, and making sure they understand phonics patterns in a hands-on way. You can check this activity out more by clicking {<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Construction-Zone-Building-Short-Vowel-Words-691190">here</a>} or the picture below.</div>
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I use this Making Words activity with my students who have stronger writing skills and have a larger base of spelling/phonics patterns and known words.</div>
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There are 4 different themed words for each month of the school year. Students cut out the letter tiles and try to make as many words as they can. They love trying to figure out who can find the mystery word first. You can see more about this activity by clicking {<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Making-Words-Month-by-Month-223998">here</a>} or the picture below.</div>
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This week, we celebrated the 100th day of school. Since I have a resource room, I don't have a lot of time to do extra things due to my crazy schedule. But I am so glad I made time to do this super fun activity with my students.</div>
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We started off discussing what we will look like and act like when we are 100 years old. I took pictures of my students and used the app <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/agingbooth/id357467791?mt=8">Aging Booth</a> to "time travel" to our picture when we were 100 years old.</div>
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We talked about what our lives would be like when we were 100 years old and what kind of person we thought we would be. <a href="http://www.fallintofirst.com/2014/01/100th-day-of-school.html">Fall Into First</a> has a great writing activity that we did. I gave my students the same writing template to help them make grammatically correct sentences (a huge project in my room).</div>
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This is probably my favorite bulletin board of the whole year.</div>
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We've been working really hard on reading what we write and fluency. To help tie this project into this two objectives, I used another app on Day 2 called <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chatterpix-by-duck-duck-moose/id734038526?mt=8">ChatterPix</a>.</div>
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With ChatterPix, you can upload any photo and record voice to it. By drawing a simple line on the photo, you make a "mouth" that speaks your recording.</div>
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After we made our videos, we uploaded them to our online portfolios at <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/seesaw-the-learning-journal/id930565184?mt=8">SeeSaw</a>.</div>
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B and D reversals are something I see often in my students reading and writing. </div>
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I've posted before {<a href="http://extraspecialteaching.blogspot.com/2014/09/helping-struggling-readers-errors.html">here</a>} about some of the errors that I often see in struggling readers and how I correct the errors while reading {<a href="http://extraspecialteaching.blogspot.com/2014/10/correcting-letter-reversals-or-rotations.html">here</a>}.</div>
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Today, I'm sharing with you some of the activities that I use to help students practice differentiating between the letters B and D. Sometimes it seems like my students really just need so much practice and lots of visual cues to help them out. </div>
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I like to give my students consistency with how I describe the formation of B and D. I always use the sayings "bat before the ball" for B and "doughnut on a stick" for D. This helps my students remember what part of the letter they need to form first.</div>
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I keep some of these types of activities handy all the time. I can easily pull them out whenever we have a few extra minutes or if I just think my students need some more discrimination practice between the two letters.</div>
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One of my students favorite games is this B and D Zap! game that's a freebie in my store.</div>
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We play this game as a "speed" game. I set my timer for 3 minutes and students must quickly say the correct letter to keep a card. We try to do as many as we can in 3 minutes. There are special cards that students can pull, such as the Zap! card. The Zap! card means students must give all of their cards back to me. There is also a skip and reverse card to keep the game fun. My students love playing Zap!</div>
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Now that we're back from Christmas break, we've started Unit 3 in the 1st grade Reading Wonders series. Our district requires us to use this curriculum and expects us to follow the pacing and assessments from Reading Wonders. Even though I teach special education, I am still expected to teach grade level material and use our curriculum. Although, I do go at slower pace than my gen ed counterparts.</div>
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There are things I like about the series (such as the readers and decodables from WonderWorks), but there are areas that I feel like Reading Wonders doesn't do a great job with. The practice pages are very boring and dry, but my students really need the practice!</div>
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At the beginning of each unit, I pull out all of the high frequency word cards for our word wall.</div>
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Every morning, we start our day with Corinna from <a href="http://www.surfinthroughsecond.com/">Surfin' Through Second's</a> morning work. I love how the repetition gives my students a sense of independent but also allows them practice valuable skills.</div>
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For morning work, I use the pages that are several pages behind where we are in the series. This way I know the students have been taught the skill already, and it gives them a spiral review of previously taught skills. Here's a sample page of what my students were working on before Christmas break.</div>
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My students love playing games! They are so excited about playing games that they don't even care that they're learning. I've made games that go along with each phonics skills and a comprehensive unit game of the high frequency sight words taught.</div>
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I use these games during small group, with my RTI intervention groups from the gen ed classrooms, as a way to reengage students when I see them slipping, or just as a quick time filler.</div>
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My students are so excited to see what the special cards are for each game. This little guy had to find out the special cards even though they weren't cut out yet!</div>
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Every game comes with a recording sheet for students to get extra practice.</div>
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You can check out the games for Unit 3 more by clicking {<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Unit-3-Games-for-Reading-Wonders-Grade-1-2226614">here</a>} or on the picture below.</div>
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My students need a lot of practice with the weekly Wonders skills, but I also need it to be easy for me. I created these Print It! Practice It! pages to help my students AND me! I use these with the students in my classroom and the RTI students that I see from the gen ed classrooms. </div>
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My students will do anything to use a spinner or roll dice! When students play, I typically put them in partners. Their partner is required to listen to their friend read and double check that they correctly read the word or sentence. I keep an eye on all my partners, record errors or growth as they read to each other, and help out when students have trouble decoding words.</div>
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Each week includes several pages of practice for decoding the weekly phonics skill, editing sentences, and practicing the grammar skills.</div>
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These are some of the pages we will be using in upcoming weeks.</div>
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Unit 3 Week 3's phonics skills focuses on the Soft C and Soft G patterns. I love the Spin It! Read It! pages that include reading phonics patterns in a sentence. </div>
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I've really been working hard to make sure my students understand the different phonics rules that go with each pattern. I've made a point to describe the pattern and refer to the pattern and rules during our everyday talk. I love when I hear them stating the rules to each other.</div>
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Contractions are so much more fun if they can roll a dice while they're practicing!</div>
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Adding inflectional endings are so tricky! This is just the kind of practice my students need!</div>
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There you have it! All this practice should really help push my students toward mastery of the skills in Unit 3!</div>
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Some of my students really struggle with completing acceptable, quality work. We do a lot of do-overs and erasing in my room! Since we're coming back from Christmas break, I wanted us to start off reviewing the expectations of quality work by providing some visuals to help us out.</div>
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We also filled out this reflection sheet as a way to really think about whether or work is considered quality work or not.<br />
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I'll be adding these reflection sheets to my students' individual Student Data Notebooks as a reminder of what they will need to do in order to complete quality work.</div>
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For some of my students that need a more consistent visual reminder, I taped these Quality Work strips to their desks.</div>
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If these can be useful in your classroom, you can download them {<a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24419128/Quality%20Work.pdf">here</a>} as a freebie.</div>
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As a special education teacher, I spend a lot of time focusing on foundational reading skills. Direct phonics instruction is a huge part of our day, and so important for my kids to learn how to be successful readers.</div>
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Although my students receive pull-out instruction for reading in the resource room, I try really hard to keep up with the grade level curriculum (Reading Wonders). I do admit that I'm about 3 weeks behind the gen ed classes for pacing.</div>
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I teach the same phonics patterns and follow the pacing from our Reading Wonders curriculum. I do make some adjustments as I feel it is necessary. Unit 1 Week 5 of Reading Wonders teaches S-Blends and R-Blends together. I felt like that was too much for my students so I divided the instruction into two weeks.</div>
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We start our weekly phonics instruction with a chart similar to this.</div>
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We practice reading the words together as a class. When I first introduce the words, I follow a "my turn, your turn" sequence. I first model for students how to blend the students and chunk any word patterns. I use a highlighter to show students the different chunks in words.</div>
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I use the same words for 2 days in a row (maybe 3 if they're extra tricky patterns). The first day we practice reading the words first as a whole group. Then I call on individual students to read the different colored rows and sometimes having them read columns just to keep them on their toes. :)</div>
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On the 2nd day, we practice reading the words but faster and with less support for me. After we've practiced reading words, students get to do their favorite part.</div>
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I call students up and give them a task such as "Circle the word in the purple row that rhymes with top." Not only are they having to practice their decoding skills, but they get to practice other skills as well. I'll use this time to practice things like:</div>
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My students love being called up to read and circle words, and I like that I can use this time to differentiate extra practice tailored to each student's needs.</div>
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Of course, phonics instruction wouldn't be complete without lots of practice experiencing words in different ways during small group. </div>
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I love Sound Boxes for tricky patterns like blends since it forces students to really think about every sound in the word.</div>
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Of course, my students most favorite thing to do is play games. I've created a bunch of phonics games, like this <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Beach-Days-A-CVC-Game-246057">Beach Days CVC Game</a>, to give my students more practice while having fun. I love sneaky practice!</div>
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This Catching Insects game focuses on Short I words and is part of my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Unit-1-Games-for-Reading-Wonders-Grade-1-2112640">Unit 1 Games for Reading Wonders</a>. We use games like this weekly, and it's always a hit.</div>
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On this day, my friend here was sooooo distracted by everything that he couldn't focus on the words at all. Finally, I covered up the pictures so he could focus on the words and not the pictures. Success from a simple sheet of paper!</div>
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And there you go, a brief look at phonics instruction in my classroom and some of the tools I use. Next week, I'll be back with how I plan sight word instruction.</div>
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I've been silent for awhile now. It wasn't my plan for this year. I actually had BIG plans for this blog. I had so many blog posts lined up in my head and great things I wanted to happen.</div>
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I was super excited and enthusiastic about this school. I was moving to first grade and was thrilled! I've had a few rough years teaching special education and had become very discouraged. A new grade level back at my old school in FL was just what I needed.</div>
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I worked so hard in my room. I never got around to my classroom revel post but here are some my favorite parts of my room.</div>
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This is my absolute favorite place to be in my room. This rug from <a href="http://www.kidcarpet.com/">Kid Carpet</a>! Everyday I look at it and love it.</div>
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I labeled everything! These AR labels can be found <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/EDITABLE-Accelerated-Reader-Library-Labels-White-Series-1285087">here</a>.</div>
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I organized everything, and it made my heart so happy!</div>
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I made this awesome AR Points Clip Chart and then realized I forgot the numbers 65 and 70 (it's still hanging BTW).</div>
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This bulletin board was so dang cute! Seriously I didn't even know I could love a bulletin board this much. If you love it as much as I do, you should check out <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Linda-Kamp">Linda Kamp's</a> unit.</div>
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School started and it was amazing! I loved these kids as we got to know each other.</div>
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We built our reading stamina (graph from <a href="http://thebrownbagteacher.blogspot.com/2014/09/daily-5-launching-read-to-self-building.html">The Brown Bag Teacher</a>) and learned to be independent readers.</div>
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We did our first science experiment, and the kids thought it was amazing. You can check out <a href="http://adayinfirstgrade.com/2013/06/science-galore-and-freebie.html">A Day in First Grade</a> for this experiment.</div>
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And then it all came to a stop. :( </div>
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During the 2nd week of school, our school got cut a 1st grade teaching position. We also had an open ESE (special education) position that was unfilled. So the principal made the decision to move me from gen ed back to ESE. </div>
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I really, really loved my class. I felt so disappointed. Sending those babies home with a letter in the backpacks and not even being able to say goodbye as their teacher was heart wrenching. Yes, I still see them in the hallway. But it's not the same.</div>
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So now, I'm back as a resource teacher for 1st and 2nd grade. I have a sweet, sweet set of boys. But it has been a hard transition. I keep seeing posts about teaching the students you have and not the ones you wish I had. Well, I'm trying. I'll admit that it hasn't been easy. </div>
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Since my year got a rewrite, I had to give my bulletin board a new look. Thanks to <a href="http://www.teachingspecialthinkers.com/">Teaching Special Thinkers</a> for this cute idea and the pencil craft.</div>
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Hi everyone! I've finally gotten a chance to blog about how I incorporated Interactive Notebooks with the 2nd grade Reading Wonders series last school year. </div>
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Halfway through the school year, I finally felt comfortable enough with the curriculum to start implementing the Interactive Notebooks as a way for us to practice the skills. Sometimes I would use them during whole group, small group, or as an independent activity. If the week was crazy, I would sometimes not use them at all. I would pick and choose which activities to use as an Interactive Notebook depending on our schedule and my student's abilities.</div>
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First thing, I did was look at the Unit Overview for each week to see which skills I thought could be incorporated as an Interactive Notebook activity.</div>
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I decided that Work Work, Vocabulary, Comprehension, and Grammar would be good areas to use an Interactive Notebook for teaching or practice.</div>
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To get us started, I made each student a notebook and added tabs for easier organization. Having these colored tabs helped my students quickly find the area of the book that we were working in that day.</div>
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I tried two different printing options before I found the one that I liked the best for my class. I felt like printing 2 to a page made items too small for my students and settled on printing at 85%. By printing at 85%, the pages fit perfectly in a composition notebook.</div>
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I like including anchor charts for my students to use as a reference. Then if I new anchor charts up on our focus wall, they can use their Interactive Notebooks as a guide.</div>
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To help build my students' independence, I kept the weekly phonics and vocabulary activity the same. The only thing that changed was the new phonics patterns and new vocabulary words.</div>
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I have just revised one of my students' favorite phonics games, the <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Magic-E-A-Short-Vowel-and-CVCe-Game-211894">Magic E game</a>. I love using games with my students in small groups and as an independent center. This game is perfect if you have students who struggle to read words like <i>can</i> and <i>cane</i>. I have included 32 pairs of words like this. To make this multi-purpose in my classroom, I've also included sorting header cards and a recording sheet.<br />
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My first change was with my class rules posters. I have used a modified version of the Whole Brain Teaching rules for the last several years.</div>
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This summer, Cyndie is hosting a 2 for Tuesday link-up. It's a great way for you to score some great products for only $2!<br />
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Today, my Clip Chart in Bright Colors is only $2. I used this in my classroom a few years ago. You can click {<a href="http://extraspecialteaching.blogspot.com/2012/08/back-to-school-pictures-with-some.html">here</a>} to see all the classroom pictures from that year.<br />
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I also love using my Short Vowel Phonics Fluency Task Cards with my students. My students think they are so fun and don't even realize they are practicing reading. During small group, I usually have my students read a few cards as a warm-up. They will read the cards to themselves, turn and read to their partner, and then switch.<br />
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So the truth is I'm not prepared for Vegas at all. I could not be more underprepared. I don't even know if I fall under the introvert or extrovert category anymore. For the last month, I fall into the survival category!<br />
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First let me show you what I did today. We're back home visiting family we haven't seen in years. We spent the day at a water park and this obstacle is only ONE of the things we did. It was fun but so exhausting! Just what I should have planned before a big Vegas trip right??<br />
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Here's all my evidence of how unprepared I am.<br />
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I've been living out of a suitcase for over a month. Every outfit I own is incredibly wrinkled. Please don't hold it against me.</div>
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I finally got handouts printed tonight. See how they're not even stapled? </div>
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Angeliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01523442396725058708noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8536389062886296841.post-46067152164583286592015-06-27T15:59:00.004-05:002015-06-27T15:59:56.465-05:00Daily 5 Book Study - Chapter 1As usual, I'm late to the party! We've been in the middle of this crazy move from Hawaii to Florida and still don't have internet hooked up or any of our household goods. Since we're at the in-laws for the weekend (sitting on real furniture), I can finally join up with the Daily 5 Book Study for Chapter 1 that is being hosted by <a href="http://www.primaryinspired.net/2015/06/how-daily-5-has-evolved-book-study.html">Primary Inspired</a>.<br />
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What I LOVE most about this chapter is reading how the Daily 5 has evolved from 5 rotations a day to 3. I could honestly never see how teachers were able to do 5 rotations a day! What a relief it was for me to hear that 3 rotations is totally fine, and it's even more fine to do what works for YOUR class! </div>
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Chapter 1 really hit home with me as I thought this past school year of teaching a 2nd grade resource room. Last year was probably my most difficult year of teaching, and I'm using this year to reflect and figure out how I can make it better!</div>
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This sentence really hit home with me so much that I posted about it on <a href="https://instagram.com/extraspecialteaching/">Instagram</a>.</div>
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As I finish reading the rest of the revised Daily 5 book, I'm excited to think of the possibilities for this upcoming school year. I'll be teaching a 1st grade general education classroom and I know this framework for running my Language Arts block will help give my students plenty of authentic time reading and receiving high quality literacy instruction. </div>
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Hi everyone! It's been a long school year that has almost come to an end. I had a tough group this year and a lot of change for my family. My husband just retired from the Marine Corps after 17 years of service. It's crazy to think we'll no longer be a military family.</div>
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This means our time in Hawaii is now coming to an end. Hawaii has been an amazing experience for us. We've had wonderful times here that my kids will always remember and for that I'm grateful. The last day of school for us is June 3rd, and we will fly out on June 8th.</div>
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We're returning to FL to finally settle down and stay in one spot for as long as we want. I am so excited to be settled down and have permanent ties to a community. But this upcoming move meant I was back on the job hunt. My old school district held a job fair, so I submitted an application and bought a plane ticket ASAP!</div>
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My sweet friend, Nicole from <a href="http://www.teaching-with-style.com/">Teaching With Style</a>, was also looking to change schools and gave me some great resume tips! You should check out her post {<a href="http://www.teaching-with-style.com/2015/05/teacher-transfer-and-resume-tips.html">here</a>}. </div>
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Being that we're military, I've done a good bit of interviewing, and I've tried to compile all the interview questions into one document. Sometimes, interviewers really throw some interesting questions at you that make you think. It's always a good idea to try and think ahead of some things that you might be asked so you're not caught off guard. </div>
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Here is a list of all the interview questions (that I could remember from previous interviews over the last few years) that I experienced. Click on the picture below to download your copy.</div>
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*Dress so you feel professional but confident! Be careful of your shoes though! I wore these awesome new shoes just for the job fair. I was so amped that I didn't realize they were killing my feet until it was over. When I got home, I had 5 blisters on my feet and they were a hot mess. I saw many ladies wearing extremely high heels. They had to be dying by the time they got home!</div>
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*When answering questions, speak from experience. This can be tricky when you're fresh out of college but try to think about your student teaching experiences. During these interviews, I really felt like I was just having a conversation about my teaching and classroom. That really helped me to feel less stressed since I talk about teaching stuff all the time with friends and colleagues.</div>
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I'm happy to say that next year I will be returning to my old school in FL as a 1st grade teacher! I've never taught gen ed before, but I am so excited about this new experience. I can't wait to have my own classroom of students that belong to me!</div>
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