CVC words and CVC sentence fluency is an important skills for early readers in kindergarten and first grade to practice. It’s also important to teach these skills in a structured and systematic...
continue readingBeing Reflective is one of the IB Learner Profile characteristics that we should be encouraging in students. Here are some of my favorite books for encouraging this important skill. This post contains affiliate Amazon links. That means...
continue readingHello My Name is Octicorn is a cute and sweet book about an octicorn named octi. He is part octopus, part unicorn and 100 lonely. He has a hard time fitting in because he’s to unicorn-y for the octopi and too much of an octopus...
continue readingTeaching new sounds using science of reading based approaches doesn’t have to be complicated. In my first grade classroom, after we review letter sounds quickly, we begin to introduce a new sound each week based on the sound...
continue readingThe IB learner profile is an important and central part of the inquiry based learning approach. Each unit of inquiry should help nurture and grow these skills in your students. Here is how and why I organized my classroom library by IB...
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