What is a Sound Wall?
There is a better way to support students in spelling, writing, and reading. A wall of sounds is a way to display different sounds or phonemes. The real power of…
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There is a better way to support students in spelling, writing, and reading. A wall of sounds is a way to display different sounds or phonemes. The real power of…
Cooperative learning is an approach which aims to organize classroom activities into academic and social experiences. Putting students into pairs, triads, group pairings, and other forms of grouping allows for…
Classroom callbacks are a technique that teachers use to get the students’ attention in a quick and fun way. This tool is helpful because it is an easy, fun way…
Teaching fads have come and gone over the years, but there are some practices I have continued to do that have withstood the test of time. These mainstays of the…
Creating fluent mathematicians takes time and repetition. Recently, we released a new resource called Math Maps Fluency Builders. Math Maps allows students to have fun while building fluency! Our math…