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Three Cheers to an Awesome Parent Volunteer!
This post is dedicated to the best parent volunteer EVER...Barbara Saia (with Melissa Burnham, a very close second, and Margaret Slade and how do I even begin to rate or rank them...I LOVE LOVE LOVE...
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17 New Hello Fonts
I've added 17 new fonts to the Hello Fonts line-up...bringing the total to 81 so far.Download them individually in the right sidebar of my blog ORDownload them bundled in my TpT store...FOR PERSONAL...
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Hello Sale...Midnight to Midnight...and SALE Text Alerts
ENTER SALE HEREAlso, I am starting to offer Hello Literacy text notifications whenever I throw a sale. If you would like to receive a text when this happens, you'll receive right away...no delay like...
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Wanna Be...Pete the Cat?
...if the answer is YES, then this post is for you. Last spring I posted about our Literacy Week celebrations during the first week of March, in a blog post called, Some School Spirit. After that, I...
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Using Infographics to Teach Informational Text
Image Source: www.kidsdiscover.comWe've all seen the surge in infographics lately, especially on Pinterest, and it seems there's an Infographic on EVERYTHING under the sun. However, I've only recently...
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Read Across America Week at the Lake!
The book fair is all set and ready for little children....it almost looks too good to touch! Reminds me of the night before Christmas...don't we have the BEST parent volunteers? Boy, they sure did a...
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Fifty Shades: Today at NCRA
To all the NCRA participants attending my session this afternoon, I wanted to give you a link to my presentation in the event that you would like to follow along. You can also follow directly at...
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Common Core Reading: Focus on Fiction - Half of the Balanced Reading Diet
If you know me, or even if you don't know me, but you follow my blog, you know a few of my favorite things...1) Picture Books2) Reading Workshop3) Teaching ReadingAlthough I wouldn't necessarily...
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Using Poppleton to Teach RL.2 & RL.3: A Common Core Reading Lesson
Here's a lesson to teach reading literature standards, RL.1, about key details, RL.2 about the lesson of the story (and how the key details of the events help one understand the lesson), and RL.3,...
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I'm Tracked Out, but Hello Literacy's On the Road Again!
Look, they even made me a cute name tent!You all may have remembered my trip to Arkansas on my January track-out (track-out is a year-round school term that means when I'm off school) to present my...
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Hello Literacy Blog Hits Two Million Pageviews...WoWzA! More Than Just GOOD...
Who would have thought, two years ago when I started this blog that it would have ever reached two million hits? I am shocked! I never expected it to have the reach it does.... I never really know the...
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17 New Hello Literacy Fonts - No Fooling!
Despite the fact that today is April 1st, these 17 new Hello Fonts are NO FOOLING! You can grab them all, IN ADDITION to the other 81 Hello Fonts in my store....for a grand total of 98 Hello...
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New RTI Progress Monitoring Assessments for More Advanced Phonics Skills +...
RTI Foundational Literacy Progress Monitoring AssessmentsJust a short note to let everyone know that I just finished my next set of Progress Monitoring probes for more advanced phonics skills like...
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Hello Literacy Says Hello National Poetry Month!
Welcome to April...so I'm a few, ok, more than a few, days late! This track-out has gone by extremely fast, but all I can say is, "I'M LOVING THE WEATHER!!!! AREN'T YOU??" It's great! And I have been...
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Happy Happy Teachers Appreciation Week! #thankateacher
Hello Teacher Appreciation Week! First of all, let me start off by saying, I hope this week you FEEL THE LOVE, for E.V.E.R.Y.T.H.I.N.G. you do on a daily basis! No doubt, teachers are overworked,...
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And the Winner(s) Is...And Some Special Shout-Outs!
Thank you to everyone that left a comment. You all know by now that my Love Language is Words of Affirmation, so blogging is a natural love bucket filler for me. Thank you for all your kind words and...
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Elephants & Technology Integration - Common Core Style
8 times a year, our school closes early for teacher planning called Early Release Days, 8:45am-1:15pm. The morning schedule gets wonky and in order to preserve a common planning time for all grade...
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Ya'll, this Common Core instruction is by no means perfect, at all, but I believe it has many of the characteristics of teaching reading the Common Core way. Ideally, for a small group close reading,...
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...How I Spent the Last 45 Minutes of a Friday Afternoon [with...
Can you infer what we did from the following hashtags?#iPods #guidance #YouTube #writing #partners #videos #fun #5thgrade #technology #synergyI taught another stand-alone lesson today....for our...
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