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Seesaw is great for student engagement. It allows students to create, reflect, share, and collaborate their ideas with each other and the teacher. They are able to learn new knowledge, and show what they know through this platform. It also is a great way to involve families, as they can access seesaw on technology from home.

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Seesaw | Elementary Learning Experience Platform

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Seesaw | Elementary Learning Experience Platform

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Elementary Learning Experience Platform | Seesaw

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Seesaw is a Learning Experience Platform with 25M+ users, enhancing elementary education, engagement, and school culture while improving academic success.

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Pear Deck is a great interactive online tool that allows students to engage in  instructional strategies and formative assessment tools to monitor their learning growth. Teachers can create fun and interactive presentations for students to follow along to.

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Integrations & Partnerships | Pear Deck Learning

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Elevate education with Pear Deck Learning’s multitude of top-notch integrations and partnerships with industry all-stars like Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, and many more.

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Kahoot is a fun, interactive online formative assessment for teachers to provide to their students. It is a game based program that teachers can set up for their students to play after they have learned the material.

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Kahoot! | Learning games | Make learning awesome!

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Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that brings engagement and fun to 1+ billion players every year at school, at work, and at home.

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Jamboard is a digital whiteboard that allows students to share their ideas out on. You are able to  sketch out, or write ideas to collaboratively share them with peers.

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Visualize your ideas in a new and collaborative way

Unleash your team's creativity with Jamboard. Sketch your ideas whiteboard-style while benefiting from the access and connectivity of an interactive canvas, on mobile, or right from your web browser. Drop images, add notes, and pull assets directly from the web while collaborating with team members from anywhere.

Google Jamboard 55 hardware is approaching end of life. Elevate your whiteboarding needs to the Google Meet Series One Board 65.

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Google Jamboard: Whiteboard App for Business | Google Workspace

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Use Google Jamboard for a collaborative digital whiteboard app. Learn what Jamboard is and start sharing your ideas with teammates.

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Epic is a digital reading resource to help students strengthen their literacy skills. Students can choose books to read, or teachers can assign them.

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Instantly access over 40,000 of the best books & videos for kids on Epic

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Get unlimited access to 40,000 of the best books, audiobooks, videos, & more for kids 12 and under. Try it free.

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Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, “They don’t pay me to like the kids.” Her response: “Kids don’t learn from people they don’t like.’” A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect with them on a real, human, personal level.

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Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning Book

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Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning Book

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The Invisible Boy Written by Trudy Ludwig and Illustrated by Patrice Barton 

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The Invisible Boy Written by Trudy Ludwig and Illustrated by Patrice Barton 

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Dancing in the Wings Written Debbie Allen and Illustrated by Kadir Nelson  

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Dancing in the Wings Written Debbie Allen and Illustrated by Kadir Nelson  

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The Magical Yet Written by Angela DiTerlizzi and Illustrated by Lorena Alvarez

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The Magical Yet Written by Angela DiTerlizzi and Illustrated by Lorena Alvarez

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Phonics offers everyone, from the child beginning to learn to read and write from the moment they enter school to the most experienced reader, a clear and simple strategy for reading and spelling every word in the English language.

Although most people accept that phonics is a very effective way of teaching young children to read, very few of us stop to think about whether it has any application to adult reading and spelling. This is because everyday material contains words which we, certainly if we are skilled readers, have encountered many times before. But what happens when we come across words that don't normally inhabit the texts we read and, perhaps, need to write about.

Some months ago, I was reading about the Longitude Prize, which aims to tackle the increasing and, some say, potentially life-threatening problem of the growing levels of antimicrobial resistance. The future of our health is going to be compromised if harmful bacteria continue the current trend of developing resistance to antibiotics, and if the development of new antibiotics continues to be slow.

One of the ten most antibiotic-resistant resistant strains of bacteria on the Longitude list is Staphylococcus Aureus*.

Most people, even people who consider themselves to be excellent readers, would probably have had to think fairly carefully about how to arrive at a working pronunciation of the word if they had never seen it before. Spelling it would present even greater problems. Yet, applying exactly the same kinds of techniques we teach children in the early years to tackle ever longer and more complex words is remarkably effective.

My mother, who spent a lifetime as a nurse, used regularly to refer to the bacteria as 'staff', though she did have to know how to be able to write it in some of her reports. If one adopts the strategy we use in phonics to break down this word and re-assemble it, we do something like the following:

Sta phy lo co ccus. In the first syllable 'sta' is comprised of the sounds /s/ /t/ /a/. The second syllable ' phy' is comprised of two sounds /f/ and /i/. The < ph > is a two-letter spelling. The third syllable 'lo', when spoken normally, or as normally as a nurse or doctor might say it in everyday conversation, is comprised of the two sounds /l/ and /schwa/, the spelling < o > representing the schwa or weak vowel sound. The fourth syllable 'co' is comprised of the sounds /k/ and /o/. The fifth and final syllable ' cc us' is comprised of three sounds : /k/ /u/ /s/.

As you can see, I've highlighted the two spellings in the word which are comprised of two letters but which represent a single sound. As the word is derived from Ancient Greek, we have the spelling < ph > for the sound /f/, and we have the spelling < cc > for the sound /k/.

If the word were to crop up in a text a class were reading and which the children might be expected to write about and also see co-occur is similar texts in the future, it would be important to teach it. And, even though the word is domain-specific, enabling a class to be able to read as well as to spell complex words such as this one is essential.

As teachers, we are always looking for opportunities to enhance and extend learning beyond the boundaries of single items and we would almost certainly want to look at the etymology of such words. Tracing the roots of words certainly makes remembering them and remembering how they are constructed easier. In the case of 'Staphylococcus', 'Staphylo-' is derived from Ancient Greek and means 'bunch of grapes'. '-coccus' comes to us through Latin from the Greek kokkus, meaning 'grain, berry'. Put the two together and we have a bunch of what look like grapes or berries comprising what are the Staphylococcus Aureus bacteria.

You may think that one couldn't possibly spend time dealing with all the elements in the analysis of this one particular term. The truth is that even children in Key Stage 1 and who have been taught a high-quality phonics programme would have no difficulty in performing the same operation with this word. In addition, almost invariably, this kind of solid knowledge is cumulative and applies across a range of different domains.

The problem lies not in teaching children (at whatever level) how to read and write long, complex words; the problem lies in making sure teacher subject knowledge is up to the task.

*Please note that we often break words into syllables in slightly different ways. Nevertheless, however wesyllabify a word, we should all arrive at the same number of syllables.

Thanks for use of the image to: Content Providers(s): CDC/ Matthew J. Arduino, DRPHPhoto Credit: Janice Haney Carr - This media comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library (PHIL), with identification number #11157. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7469288

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Not your everyday calendar, here you can find important events in literary history, authors' birthdays, and a variety of holidays, all with related activities and resources that make them more relevant to students.

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Not your everyday calendar, here you can find important events in literary history, authors' birthdays, and a variety of holidays, all with related activities and resources that make them more relevant to students.

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The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. Learn more about the Universal Design for Learning framework from CAST. The UDL Guidelines can be used by educators, curriculum developers, researchers, parents, and anyone else who wants to implement the UDL framework in a learning environment. These guidelines offer a set of concrete suggestions that can be applied to any discipline or domain to ensure that all learners can access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning opportunities.

Reenvisioning the UDL Guidelines

Because the UDL Guidelines are meant to be informed by feedback from the field as well as new research, they have been updated several times in the past. We are in the process of updating the Guidelines once again in our UDL Rising to Equity initiative.

This update will focus specifically on addressing systemic barriers that result in inequitable learning opportunities and outcomes. CAST aims to develop a transparent, inclusive, and community-driven process. If you are interested in collaborating and staying updated on our progress, we invite you to complete a brief survey.

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The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. Learn more about the Universal Design for Learning framework from CAST. The UDL Guidelines can be used by educators, curriculum developers, researchers, parents, and anyone else who wants to implement the UDL framework in a learning environment. These guidelines offer a set of concrete suggestions that can be applied to any discipline or domain to ensure that all learners can access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning opportunities.

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What if your school just said "yes" to inclusion?

How would students with and without autism benefit? How would you solve the challenges? What do great inclusive schools really look like? Paula Kluth has the answers and now they're on one powerful DVD that will help make your school an inclusion success story.

Paula Kluth brings together more than a dozen of her colleagues for this complete professional development package on effective inclusion. Hosted by Paula and expanding on key lessons from her bestselling books and popular presentations, the 55-minute professional development video walks you through the what, why, and how of honoring and supporting all learners. Through clips of real teachers in successful inclusive classrooms and interviews with educators, administrators, a parent, and students, you'll discover practical ways to:

differentiate instruction

nurture students' social skills through peer supports

improve school culture so all students are welcomed and included

individualize objectives and standards

make the most of each student's gifts and interests

use positive behavior supports

presume competence

strengthen partnerships between schools and families

co-teach effectively

An ideal professional development resource for experienced educators and preservice teachers in K 12 classrooms, this package also includes a concise Facilitator's Guide with sample professional development plans, helpful summaries of teaching strategies, more tips from educators, thought-provoking questions for group discussion, and practical forms and checklists to evaluate practices and plan supports.

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What if your school just said "yes" to inclusion? How would students with and without autism benefit? How would you solve the challenges? What do great inclusive schools really look like? Paula Kluth has the answers and now they're on one powerful DVD that will help make your school an inclusion success story.

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Teaching the Whole Child – Preschool Activities

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Open-and-go lessons that inspire kids to love science.

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Mystery Science offers open-and-go lessons that inspire kids to love science. The hook, visuals, and activity have all been prepared for you. Less prep, more learning.

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It's time to improve literacy skills during social studies instruction and ensure that readers of all abilities have what they need to access grade-level social studies concepts.

Join us on Thursday, December 7 for a look at scaffolded materials that provide extra literacy support while building key social studies concepts and skills.

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Newsela | Content and assessment platform

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Content Aligned To National & State Standard, Flexible To Support Relevant Curriculum. Find the Perfect Piece Of Content For Lessons. Go beyond the book.

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Discover thousands of math skills covering pre-K to 12th grade, from counting to calculus, with infinite questions that adapt to each student’s level.

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Social Studies Activities And Lessons | PBS LearningMedia

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Discover thousands of social studies activities, lessons, and interactive resources for all grades, all aligned to state and national standards.

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Duolingo is the world's most popular way to learn a language. It's 100% free, fun and science-based. Practice online on duolingo.com or on the apps!

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BBC Learning English - BBC Learning English - Homepage

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Starfall Education: Kids Games, Movies, Books & Music for K-5 and above

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At Starfall, children have fun while they learn - specializing in reading, phonics & math - educational games, movies, books, songs, and more for children K-5 and above.

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LearnEnglish Kids is brought to you by the British Council, the world's English teaching experts. We have lots of free online games, songs, stories and activities for children. For parents, we have articles on supporting children in learning English, videos on using English at home and information about English courses for your child.