Putting emotions into words can be a struggle for many of us, even if we are proficient in communicating using language! Here are 5 simple, ways kids with a variety of language skills can communicate their feelings! #feelings #emotions #kids #socialskills #specialeducation #regulateemotions
Children’s Thanksgiving stories that model an attitude of gratitude!
Happy Thanksgiving! Tis the season of gratitude. If there is one thing I have learned from being a human being, it’s that personality traits / emotions like gratitude can be nurtured by exposure to models. Here are threeĀ Children’s Thanksgiving stories that model an attitude of gratitude!
Great books to prepare kids for Fire Drills
Looking for some great books to help your students prepare for Fire Drills? Fire Drills can cause a great deal of anxiety to those who do not know what to expect, or who struggle with a change in routine. Here are books I return to year after year that help prepare kids for Fire Drills.
The benefits of a using a visual schedule in kindergarten and early primary classrooms
In my role as a special education teacher, I’ve been seeing more and more visual schedules being used for entire classes in the past few years, and they really have their benefits!
It takes a village to raise readers ā links and freebies for those in various roles!
All of us – parents, teachers, early-childhood educators, volunteers, reading buddies, and our little students, too – we all have our roles to play in the early readers’ village. This post is loaded with links and freebies to support a number of these roles. Best wishes, my friends. Ida Mae
Canada literacy product updates!
Hello everyone! Just a quick note to let you know I’ve updated Canada Read and Write and More, so if you’ve already purchased it or either of the Canada literacy product bundles, that’s a free download for you! Here’s what’s new:
How to empower and motivate beginning readers
How a bulletin board full of TRASH can help empower and motivate beginning readers! #teaching #reading #earlyliteracy #earlylearning #ThatFunReadingTeacher
The top 3 Reading Prompts for emergent readers
Are you teaching emergent readers the very basics of reading, and overwhelmed by the numberĀ of reading prompts to choose from? The following top three prompts form the basis of what good readers naturally do. Ā The founder and creator of the Reading Recovery program, Marie Clay, studied the strategies proficient readers used. Ā To put it simply, Read More…
A Family Literacy Day message from Robert Munsch
Have you heard of ABC Life Literacy Canada? It is aĀ is a non-profit organization that inspires Canadians to increase their literacy skills. Family Literacy Day is an annual event held on January 27th encouraging families to take fifteen minutes of fun per day to learn together. Looking for some 15 minutes of fun ideas? Read!Ā Read Read More…
New Year Writing activity for kids – free!
Updated 2020!Ā Happy New Year everyone! I wanted to send you my best wishes for the new year with this free New Year Writing activity for primary students. If it’s the New Year, why are we still in the same class? For those of us who teach from August/September to May / June, it can Read More…