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The Power of the Morning Message
LATEST BLOG: The Morning Message is a powerful way for teachers to foster connections, especially when situations create disruption in the classroom. A daily Morning Message can have a high impact in improving literacy development and maintaining a connection between students, their teacher and their learnings. In Episode 69 of ...
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How Students Can Inform Our Teaching
LATEST PODCAST: We need to learn how to use 'real time data' to inform our teaching. And so often that comes from our students. So what can we find out from our students, and what is most important? What do we need to cover in the curriculum, and what are...
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How Teachers Can Create a Dedicated Space for Key Words
LATEST BLOG: When teaching any class, key words are powerful for helping students build their vocabulary and make better connections in the classroom. Education consultant Rob Vingerhoets joined literacy expert Sharon Callen on Episode 68 of The Teacher’s Toolkit for Literacy to talk about how teachers can better implement key...
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Letter Knowledge Checklists, F-1
NEW RESOURCE: These Letter Knowledge Checklists, F-1 are designed to raise awareness of what students need to know about letters; what to teach and what to notice whilst supporting students as they develop their knowledge of letters for use as readers and writers. The class checklists can guide and help...
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Top Tips for Teaching Letter Names
LATEST PODCAST, Ep 73: Teaching letter names is a big challenge for teachers. We have children coming to us at different levels of letter name knowledge, and then we have children learning at different stages and rates of growth, as well children whose first language is not English. So we...
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Four Steps to Connect Teaching With the Curriculum
LATEST BLOG: Teachers can effectively plan around an English curriculum through perception, conception, comprehension and knowledge. The ability to easily and effectively connect teaching to a curriculum is crucial for any teacher. On Episode 67 of The Teacher’s Toolkit for Literacy, literacy expert Sharon Callen revealed the four stages to...
