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A Christmas Freebie I love Christmas and I love helping out where I can.  Here’s a Christmas vocabulary freebie that might help your literacy groups this December. Here’s just one of the vocabulary charts, there are three pages in total. Easily print your 3 full-page Christmas vocabulary charts and your writing tasks x 8 (4 […]

Here’s an easy way for students to practice Thanksgiving vocabulary. Laminate and provide students with the vocabulary chart, dry-erase markers and an eraser to wipe off the marker.  Each page has two cards. You could also print two to one page using your printer settings so that the writing is smaller. This would be ideal […]

A Real Lesson in being Thankful Yesterday I went to visit my mum. I was feeling terribly guilty that I hadn’t seen her in two weeks. I had not been well and was being kept busy by the usual things. Mum’s face lit up when she saw me, and her eyes twinkled with a look […]

I have always taught with an explicit model as the foundation for any lesson. The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) provides teachers with exactly this however, negotiating your way through the standards can be difficult and time consuming. The Common Core will challenge students to take learning to new levels. By nature it promotes rigor […]

Have you been thinking about Christmas? Come on, I know you have! So it’s about seven weeks until Christmas (sorry) and I know that many of you are beginning to think about what you will being doing with your students in the lead up to the crazy season.  (This was our Christmas table two years […]