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Teach.Talk.Inspire: March 2015

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Egg"cellent Spelling Hot Potato Game. I hope you are all enjoying your week whether you're in school or on Spring Break! I have 3 more days until I can enjoy 10 blissful days off. I may have a large to-do list already but I can't wait to sit back and check each item off the list with a LARGE mug of coffee on my couch! To get my kiddos and I through this last week before break, I wanted to make sure we had some interactive activities to review some previously taught skills! Get it, eggs, cracking! I hope ...

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The SECRET STORIES® Blog: "Posting Posters!"

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Friday, August 14, 2015. Back-to-School with the SECRET STORIES phonics "secrets! Download Free SECRET STORIES Sampling Set! So you've finally laminated all. Of your SECRET STORIES. Posters and are ready to hang them on your classroom wall. Is there any particular order? Is there a right. Way to hang the SECRET STORIES. This is the most frequently asked question I hear during these preschool weeks, especially in my 'back-to-school' in services as teachers are setting up their classrooms. 1 Hang them ALL!

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Ms. Skeete's Kindergarten Class - Kinder Blog

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Ms Skeete's Kindergarten Class. It's Wednesday already and half the week is gone! Time is flying by. We have done a lot this week and we still have 2 more days to go. Since the students loved learning about penguins I choose a book where the main character is a penguin. Our literary book focus this week is Tacky the Penguin. On Monday the students made predictions about why the penguins were scared and how the penguins would save themselves. Penguins and really what's not to love. They waddle and sli...

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The SECRET STORIES® Blog: The 'Grown-Up' Reading & Writing Secrets!

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Friday, February 28, 2014. The 'Grown-Up' Reading and Writing Secrets! The 'grown-up' reading and writing SECRETS (a.k.a. Secret Stories. Are the reasons why. Letters/ letter patterns make the sounds that they do! They are why grown-ups know how to read and spell tricky words even when their spellings make no sense! However, these SECRETS are 'magically forgotten' after learning how to read and write, which is why grown-ups know. The tricky words but can't explain how. They've forgotten their SECRETS!

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The SECRET STORIES® Blog: Loopholes for Learning!

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Monday, September 15, 2014. What's "used together becomes fused together" in the brain! But Mrs. Mac, we don't have. As teachers, it's so important that we understand the " why". Behind the " how". With regard to why we teach, what we teach, and what it is that makes a particular lesson so effective. The excerpt from an article published by New York University (and pinned to my "Brain Bits" Pinterest Board here. Hello from Mrs. Mac's First Grade Class at Cottonwood Elementary in Hesperia, California!

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The SECRET STORIES® Blog: Skill-Automaticity "Down to the Bone!"

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Saturday, March 1, 2014. Skill-Automaticity "Down to the Bone! Down to the 'Bone'. I'd hoped to post this Secret Session. Sooner given the response following my previous Secret Sessions post. But I do have a very good excuse! Around Thanksgiving time, I had been contacted by an organization called. They'd agreed to FedEx to the conference location everything needed, with instructions that I take it to a local blood draw center there, and then FedEx it back to them the same day. You can only imagine t...

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The SECRET STORIES® Blog: A "Backdoor-Route" to Tricky Phonics Sounds!

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Friday, January 16, 2015. A "Backdoor-Route" to Tricky Phonics Sounds! Kindergartners obsessed with SECRETS! A Guest Post by Kindergarten Teacher Kjersti Johnson. As teachers I think we have all had that moment when we sit. Down with one of our students and they completely. Knock our socks off! Post is coming out of one of those moments. Yesterday, I had just gotten my. Afternoon class of kinders settled into our Dailies….they were spread around. And a few shopping for new books. I started with Abel.

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The SECRET STORIES® Blog: You Can't Fight the Brain

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Tuesday, June 17, 2014. You Can't Fight the Brain. You can't fight the brain. You will. How to get the most brain-BANG. For the buck during phonemic skill instruction by prompting learners to "think through" or pattern-out alternative sound options (with the Secrets™. For letters/letter patterns to attack unfamiliar words, rather than simply memorizing them. (Read the recent Stanford University study on "reading vs. memorizing" in the brain in this post. While that post focused on how. Known to be true.

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The SECRET STORIES® Blog: "Gumball Grouping" FREEBIE!

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Saturday, January 3, 2015. Returning to the classroom will be just a little bit more fun with this Melonheadz-inspired FREEBIE for "Easy-to-Organize" Guided Grouping! Click to Download the. Here's a little peek at some of what's inside. I want to thank all those subscribing for sticking with me through my first year, blogging-adventure, and I hope that you and your students enjoy these Holiday postings! For more, you can follow ALL. Of my RED DIAMOND Pinterest Boards. So as to be guaranteed. Subscribe to...