Providing Reading Interventions That Support All Students
Jul 11, 2019
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Reading Interventions That Support All Students
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Today our podcast will be a little different. We’ll be sharing with you a recording of a video presentation Kathy made for ESGI. In this presentation, you’ll learn some great strategies for effective intervention in your classroom, or tips on how to group your students for ELA centers.
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The Best Things About Kindergarten
Jul 07, 2019
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The Best Things About Kindergarten
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In our opinion, Kindergarten is the very best grade you could ever hope to teach! In this podcast episode, we’ll tell you why! Find us on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, and let us know your favorite things about teaching Kindergarten!
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Tips For New Teachers: Interview with Vanessa Levin
Apr 05, 2019
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Tips For New Teachers: Interview With Vanessa Levin
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This is going to be a great podcast interview for our listeners who are new teachers or new to kindergarten. Vanessa provides you with some great ideas and tips for making your first years stress free!
Vanessa Levin is a Pre-K teacher with more than 20 years of classroom teaching experience. She is committed to helping teachers teach better, save time, and live more by providing them with everything they need to create a fun and engaging learning environment, lesson plans, and activities for their little learners. As an early childhood trainer, she has spoken to thousands of teachers in person at popular early childhood conferences such as Frog Street Splash, I Teach K! and NAEYC. She was honored to receive the 2012 CCAEYC Trainer of the Year Award. Her work has been featured in Scholastic Teacher magazine and on popular websites like BuzzFeed. You can learn more about Vanessa by visiting her website PreK Pages.
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Independant Work
Mar 07, 2019
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Independent Work Kindergarten Kiosk Have you ever wondered what to do with all of the other students when you are doing small group work? Never fear! We have some ideas for you to get your students working independently!If you enjoy the podcast and can review us on iTunes that would be amazing of you! We really appreciate your reviews as they help us continue to make the podcast and help other teachers to find us. Kindergarten Kiosk is a proud member of the Education Podcast Network, a network of podcasts for educators by educators. Check out the other great podcasts! Little Red Hen Independent Writing Practice $4.00 Also available at Teachers Pay Teachers!Product DescriptionAre you looking for some great writing activities, ready to print and go!My students love these "Folk-Tale" based writing activities. 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Less Is More
Jan 26, 2019
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Less Is More
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Do you feel like you can’t cover everything in the classroom? Maybe you are trying to cover too much? In today’s episode we will discuss our “less is more” approach to classroom teaching that helps us to focus on what’s most important for student learning. We hope it helps you too!
This set of books is specifically designed to use with the Wonders reading curriculum, or for anyone looking for great sight word readers that follow a logical sequence of sight word introduction, and the practice of decoding words made only from letters as they are introduced.
Includes words from Units 1-5: I, can, the we, see, a, like, to, and, go, you, do, my, are, with, he. Then Continues with the words as ordered in Units 6-10: with, is, little, she, was for, have, of, they, said, want, here, me, this, what, help, too, has, play, look, where, good, who come, does.
The letter order for Units 1-5 are: m, a, s, p, t, i, c, n, d, i, o, h, e, f, r. This set continues with those letters and then the remaining letters as introduced in Units 6-10.
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Linguistic Basics
Jan 18, 2019
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The Basics of Linguistics
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Today we will discuss how linguistics (the study of language) relates to teaching reading and how knowing more about phonemes, graphemes, and morphemes can improve your teaching.
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Making Music Magic In The Classroom
Nov 29, 2018
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Making Music Magic In The Classroom
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Today we are going to talk about the power of using music in your classroom. There are four artistic processes that students can engage in during a lesson. They are:
Respond
Perform
Connect
Create
During Level One lessons students are engaged in responding to or performing music, during a Level Two lesson students are responding to or performing music as connected to academic content. A Level Three lesson engages students in academic content as well as musical content, and Level Four lesson involves students in the creative process as they experience all four artistic processes.
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Learning Names of Self and Others
Sep 23, 2018
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A Fresh Look at Phonics: Interview with Wiley Blevins, Ph.D
Sep 09, 2018
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A Fresh Look at Phonics: Interview with Wiley Blevins, Ph.D
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In this week's podcast we talk phonics instruction with Wiley Blevins! Dr. Wiley Blevins is a world-renowned expert on early reading, and author of the seminal book Phonics From A to Z and A Fresh Look At Phonics, among many other works. He has taught in both United States and South America, and he regularly trains teachers throughout Asia. He holds a doctorate in education from Harvard University and has worked with numberous educational scholars, including Jeanne Chall, Isabel Beck, Marilyn Adams, Louisa Moats, Dianne August, and others.
In this weeks episode, Dr. Blevins will join us to talk about his book A Fresh Look At Phonics. I just finished reading this book and it's made a huge difference to my understanding and teaching of Phonics this year. One of my favorite parts of Blevin's book is how it breaks down the components of phonics in a way that demonstrates the systematic order we should be teaching in. With his permission, I've posted a few of my favorite tables from the book. First, a table of alphabet letters in order of utility, and then a table of the most frequent spellings of English sounds. I've also shown an example of one of Blevin's blending lines from his book. I loved the way that he builds differentiation into his blending lines, as well as review and repetition.
I highly suggest that you get yourself a copy of Blevin's book to help guide your instruction this year. I'm so happy that I've read it!
One thing that I am changing in my instruction this year, based on my reading, is building in more opportunities for my students to practice the skills they are learning. To that end, I've created decodable sight word sets based on the most common sight words and the Wonders sight word/letter sound progression. I will use these this year to make sure my students get the independant practice they need.
This set of books is specifically designed to use with the Wonders reading curriculum, or for anyone looking for great sight word readers that follow a logical sequence of sight word introduction, and the practice of decoding words made only from letters as they are introduced. The sight word order for this set of readers is: a, and, for, he, is, she, in, it, that, the, was, you, The letter order for this set of readers is: m, a, s, p, t, i, n, b, c, o, f, h, d, r, g, e, l, k Contents Include the Following 24 guided readers. A Map A Map (With pictures to add) For For (With pictures to add) Dad Dad (With pictures to add) Cat and Bat Cat and Bat (With pictures to add) Mop Mop (With pictures to add) In It In It (With pictures to add) That That (With pictures to add) The Pet Show The Pet Show (With pictures to add) It is For It is For (With pictures to add) Was That? Was That? (With pictures to add) Hide and Seek Hide and Seek (With pictures to add) Me and You Me and You (With pictures to add)
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Star of the Week: Building a Classroom Community
Aug 26, 2018
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Star of the Week
Kindergarten Kiosk
How do you build a classroom community? Two of the things we do are "Friend of the Day" and "Star of the Week". In this episode we'll walk you through the procedures we use to celebrate each child in our classroom, to help the children learn each other's names, and to build a classroom "family".
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Begin building a classroom community by having a daily "Friend of the Day." This is a great way for students to learn each other's names, build friendships and more.
You will want to build on this activity by allowing students to learn more about each other as you move from Friend of the Day to Star of the Week. *Note this product is included in the Name Unit.
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