Professional Development Presentations
Word Wall Word IdeasView this presentation for some fun ideas of how to really get your students interacting with the word wall.
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Small Group Instruction (Grades K-2)Need ideas for what to have students working on while you pull small groups? Here is a variety of literacy rich tasks to choose from.
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Literacy Work Stations (Grades 3-6)Looking for ideas for what students can be doing so you can work with skill-based groups? Try this presentation for some ideas.
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Four Square Writing for Grades 3-6How four square writing works within our Reading Street framework and the Common Core Standards.
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Four Square Writing for Grades K-2Look here for what four square looks like in the primary grades.
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Opportunities to Respond
Inspired by the work of Kevin Feldman, Anita Archer, and the research work of Hattie and Marzano, this presentation includes many strategies teachers can use to increase student engagement through opportunities to respond.
Additional resources are available upon request.
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Positive Feedback and Praise
This presentation discusses the characteristics of positive feedback and the benefits of high quality praise.
Additional resources and media are available.
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CSD Updated Math Block and Skill-Based Groups PlanThis powerpoint provides an overview of the updated math block and begins the conversation of skill-based small group instruction in the mathematics classroom.
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Vocabulary Resources
The Word Conscious ClassroomA great book for helping teachers to build their students word knowledge and ultimately their comprehension.
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Stick Pick AppTaking pulling popsicle sticks to the next level. This app allows you to pull sticks to call on students and gives you questions at just the right level for each student.
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Dale-Chall ListHere's a list of the top 3000 words used most commonly in text in grades K-4. Great place to start teaching vocabulary.
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English Language Learner Resources
Instructional Strategies Online
This site has a ton of great instructional strategies that work for ELLs, but all kids, too!
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Basic Ideas for Teaching ELLs
This one page document contains the very basic ideas of things to consider when teaching ELLs.
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Developing LanguageThis document contains instructional strategies and suggestions based on an ELLs level of language acquisition.
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Literacy Resources
ReadWorksGreat website for resources to provide instruction on key comprehension skills with fiction and non-fiction text.
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Text Project"TextProject aims to bring beginning and struggling readers to high levels of literacy through a variety of strategies and tools, particularly the texts used for reading instruction."
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Instructional Strategies
This file has some great resources for instructional strategies for vocabulary and other literacy skills.
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