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From the very first chapter of this informative and inspiring book, a clear picture emerges of how even three- and four-year-olds' capacities for serious authorship can and should be supported.

Coauthor of Young Investigators: The Project Approach in the Early Years

By the time they reach preschool or kindergarten, young children are already writers. They don't have much experience, but they're filled with stories to tell and ideas to express-they want to show the world what they know and see. All they need is a nurturing teacher like you to recognize the writer at work within them. All you need to help them is Already Ready.

Taking an exciting, new approach to working with our youngest students, Already Ready shows you how, by respecting children as writers, engaged in bookmaking, you can gently nudge them toward a lifetime of joyful writing. Katie Wood Ray and Matt Glover guide you through fundamental concepts of early writing. Providing numerous, helpful examples of early writing-complete with transcriptions-they demonstrate how to:

make sense of children's writing and interpret how they represent sounds, ideas, and images

see important developmental signs in writers that you can use to help them grow further

recognize the thinking young children engage in and discover that it's the same thinking more experienced writers use to craft purposeful, thoughtful pieces.

Then Ray and Glover show you how little ones can develop powerful understandings about:

texts and their characteristics

the writing process

what it means to be a writer.

You'll learn how to support your writers' quest to make meaning, as they grow their abilities and refine their thinking about writing through teaching strategies such as:

reading aloud

working side by side with writers

sharing children's writing.

Writing is just one part of a busy early childhood classroom, but even in little doses, a nurturing approach can work wonders and help children connect the natural writer inside them to a life of expressing themselves on paper. Find that approach, share it with your students, and you'll discover that you don't have to get students ready to write-they're Already Ready.

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Already Ready shows how, by respecting children as writers, engaged in bookmaking, you can gently nudge them toward a lifetime of joyful writing. Katie

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A Teacher's Guide to Igniting Deep and Joyful Learning Across the Day

"We believe that play is one type of environment where children can be rigorous in their learning," Kristi, Alison, and Cheryl write. They provide a host of lessons, suggestions for classroom setups, helpful tools and charts, curriculum connections, teaching points, and teaching language to help you foster mature play that makes every moment in your classroom instructional.

Play is serious business.

Whether it's reenacting a favorite book (comprehension and close reading), negotiating the rules for a game (speaking and listening), or collaborating over building blocks (college and career readiness and STEM), Kristi Mraz, Alison Porcelli, and Cheryl Tyler see every day how play helps students reach standards and goals in ways that in-their-seat instruction alone can't do. And not just during playtimes. "We believe there is play in work and work in play," they write. "It helps to have practical ways to carry that mindset into all aspects of the curriculum." In Purposeful Play , they share ways to:

optimize and balance different types of play to deepen regular classroom learning

teach into play to foster social-emotional skills and a growth mindset

bring the impact of play into all your lessons across the day.

"We believe that play is one type of environment where children can be rigorous in their learning," Kristi, Alison, and Cheryl write. So they provide a host of lessons, suggestions for classroom setups, helpful tools and charts, curriculum connections, teaching points, and teaching language to help you foster mature play that makes every moment in your classroom instructional.

Play doesn't only happen when work is over. Children show us time and time again that play is the way they work. In Purposeful Play, you'll find research-driven methods for making play an engine for rigorous learning in your classroom.

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In Depth

Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky was a proponent of the idea that children learn best when we build on their strengths, but accomplishing this can sometimes feel a bit frustrating. As we struggle mightily to develop kids' stamina to ten, fifteen, or twenty minutes of reading and writing, we watch these same children deeply engaged in play during recess and choice time for long, extended periods. So while we firmly believe in building on children's strengths, it can be frustrating when we find ourselves limiting the time we give kids to do what we know they do best: play.

Perhaps, we need to look at play from a different perspective; if the feeling of active movement toward a goal is what we call work, then play is the work of children. In fact, it is the work and the art of childhood: the essence of learning, discovery, and creating. In play, learners are developing ideas, taking on and assigning roles, collaborating, crafting the environment and deciding when to change it, developing and negotiating rules, and being active listeners. If play is the work of children, then to build on kids' strengths, we need to ask, "How can we infuse an abundance of play and the crafting the environment and deciding when to change it, developing and negotiating rules, and being active listeners. If play is the work of children, then to build on kids' strengths, we need to ask, "How can we infuse an abundance of play and the principles of play across the curriculum?"

Reviews

"Some of the book's most powerful advice about play pertains just as much to adults working with children as it does to the children. Play is a mindset. The role of play in the classroom doesn't only improve kids' learning lives; it makes teachers' lives that much more joyful, purposeful, and sustainable.."
- Elizabeth Moore, at Two Writing Teachers
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Your Research-based Guide to Developing Skilled Readers. 300+ strategies with learning progressions support 13 reading goals, with each strategy cross-linked to skills, teacher tips, prompts, research, and reading levels—everything from fluency to literary analysis.

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A Teacher's Guide to Today's Classroom

The classroom of your dreams starts with one big idea. From the first days of school to the last, Kids First from Day One shares how to put your deepest teaching belief into action. Whether it's building community, designing your classroom spaces, matching instruction to students' needs, or engaging students in curriculum, Christine Hertz and Kristi Mraz help you put into action the belief that children are the most important people in the room.

Special Offer: Save 30% off our list price automatically when you buy 15 or more.

"This book is a place to start creating the classroom of your dreams from the very first minute of school, a classroom that is research based, child centered, and in step with the world today."
- Christine Hertz and Kristine Mraz

The classroom of your dreams starts with one big idea. From the first days of school to the last, Kids First from Day One shares teaching that puts your deepest teaching belief into action: that children are the most important people in the room.

Christine Hertz and Kristi Mraz show how to take that single, heartfelt value and create a cohesive, highly effective approach to teaching that addresses today's connected, collaborative world. With infectious enthusiasm, hard-won experience, and a generous dose of humor, Kids First from Day One shows exactly how Christine and Kristi build and maintain a positive, cooperative, responsive classroom where students engage deeply with their learning and one another.

Kids First from Day One strengthens and deepens the connections between your love of working with kids, your desire to impact their lives, and your teaching practice. It shares:

plans for designing beautiful classroom spaces that burst with the fun of learning

positive language and classroom routines that reduce disruptive behavior-without rewards and consequences

suggestions for matching students' needs to high-impact teaching structures

a treasury of the Christine and Kristi's favorite "teacher stuff" such as quick guides for challenging behavior, small-group planning grids, and parent letters

links to videos that model the moves of Christine's and Kristi's own teaching.

Just starting out and want to know what really works in classrooms? Curious about how to make your room hum with learning? Or always on the lookout for amazing teaching ideas? Read Kids First from Day One. You'll discover that the classroom of your dreams is well within your reach.

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Contents

1. Teaching Is Heart Work

The Flourishing Teacher
The Empathetic Teacher
The Playful Teacher
The Flexible Teacher
The Reflective Teacher
Conclusion: Glad We Got That All Figured Out
Interviews with Experts: Jessica Lifshitz, Sara Ahmed, Chad Everett

2. The Physical Environment
Big Idea: Setting Up Your Classroom: Start with a Blank Canvas Not a Finished Masterpiece
Big Idea: Let Your Space Reflect Your Students
Conclusion: Take Time to Reflect on Your Classroom and Your Beliefs
Interview with an Expert: Julie Denberg

3. The Emotional Environment
Big Idea: Scheduling for Success
Big Idea: Build a Community Don't Just Manage One
Big Idea: Social Skills Can Be Taught
Big Idea: Supporting Every Child
Conclusion: Rome Wasn't Built in a Day; Kids Won't Learn Everything
About Your Community Overnight
Interview with an Expert: Allyson Black-Foley

4. Building Curriculum
Big Idea: Curriculum Should Be Responsive and Intentional
Big Idea: Build a Better Teaching Toolbox: Clear Teaching Structures Drive Complex Learning
Big Idea: Responsive Teachers Draw from All They Know
Conclusion: Assume Success Is Possible When the Factors Are Right
Interviews with Experts: Annie Dunn, Yvonne Yiu, Kate Roberts and Maggie Beattie Roberts
Tips for Family Interaction
Annotated First-Day Letter
Annotated Letter About Mindset
Room Planning Guide
Quick Guide to Teaching Social Skills
Quick Guide to Challenging Behaviors
Checklist Template
Conference Notes Form
Conferring and Small-Group Planning Grid

In Depth

This book is a place to start creating the classroom of your dreams. A classroom that is research based, child centered, and in step with the world today. A classroom that exemplifies the collaboration, flexibility, agency, and problem-solving that people need to be successful in the coming decades. A classroom where critical thinking, thoughtful reflection, and curious inquiry sit side by side with reading, writing, and math, But here's a caveat: we're not going to promise that you'll ever achieve classroom nirvana-we know there's no such thing as perfection. And we are the first to admit that this is hard, messy work. There will be missteps and mishaps, but just like your students, you will learn from your mistakes and grow. Know that there is a community out there ready to celebrate and commiserate and think and question with you every step of the way. This book is just a first step, a launching pad to what is possible. To help you along the way, we've included lots of our favorite books, people to follow on Twitter, interviews with experts, and videos of the two of us teaching.

Are you looking to infuse or reclaim a spirit of joy and possibility into your teaching? Do you wish your students were happier and more playful? Start in Section 1.

Looking to create a beautiful classroom space that fosters collaboration, independence, and curiosity? Are you curious about the intersection between environment and behavior? Start in Section 2.

Do you want to create a classroom community free of rewards and threats? Do you see a need for your children to learn social skills but aren't sure how to go about it? Start in Section 3.

Do you find that you use the same teaching structures (guided reading for example) again and again and again? Are you interested in finding ways to engage students in learning that isn't always teacher driven? Are you curious about how to make your teaching more responsive, even if the curriculum is set? Start in Section 4.

Do you love stuff? Let's be honest, we all do. The goodies are in the back. Start in the appendixes.

- Introduction

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The classroom of your dreams starts with one big idea. From the first days of school to the last, Kids First from Day One shares how to put your deepest teaching belief into action.

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If you're not sure how phonics fits within your daily instruction, or crave a more effective process for teaching phonics, Heidi Anne Mesmer is here to help. In Letter Lessons and First Words, Heidi Anne provides a research-based vision of what lively, engaging phonics instruction can look like, along with practical, classroom-tested tools to make it happen in your classroom.

Heidi Anne provides a one-stop shop for phonics instruction, including a clear scope and sequence of what to teach, a quick assessment to differentiate instruction, a simple lesson framework, and three activity-filled units matching key developmental milestones.

More than twenty classroom videos bring the content to life, showing children working with letters, words, and books at various stages of learning. Additional resources include:

A "know the code" chapter explaining English spelling (and online glossary)

Answers to common questions

Guidance about choosing books for readers at different stages

new info about how children cognitively store words and why inductive tension is important.

Isn't it time to re-imagine how you teach phonics? Letter Lessons and First Words will show you the way toward joyful instruction for today's classrooms.

Read Heidi Anne's Blog post Developmentally Responsive Phonics Instruction: A Research-Based Approach

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Research-based strategies for lively, engaging phonics instruction with young children. - Heinemann

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- Virtual check in for 10 minutes with new class before returning to school as we haven't meet the children and parents.
- Looking at all the components of literacy to add into a schedule and how to do that in a flexible way.

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Helping create a shared understanding of the importance of play, especially in distance learning

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All the creative ways we can get students to write stories using blocks, paints and loose parts. Thank you for giving me this new lens.

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Create a literacy rich environment!

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See all the activities you do in the classroom through the lens of play- when you think of it, you realize you do a lot more than you think!

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Create the opportunity to  connect Outdoor Learning with Reading,
Writing and Read aloud.

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Remember to use play as a tool for story telling and writing- Play comes naturally, but so many times we do not connect/ extend it to story telling. If we truly combine the two we will see that there are hundreds of stories being told daily within our classrooms :)

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Always presume positive attention.

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Start creating I Can statements that  can be added to book boxes and writing folders (per unit? or collectively)  so that kids can see how much progress they are making.
CONTINUE to promote the power of PLAY!

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Instagram:
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Professional: a.cox_gaa@gemsedu.com

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Even though children increasingly spend most summer days inside or at a full-day camp program, the idealistic image of summertime is still one of free play: neighbors racing bikes, friends building a fort, siblings producing a show, a family on the beach.

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Memories of joyful and meaningful play experiences help bind families together emotionally, even long after children are grown.

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T- I love the shared reading and that it can be done with our youngest learners. I think this is something that is massively overlooked. Displaying 'row row row your boat' had so many possibilities to explore as a class and opportunities to develop early reading skills.
W- When i can get back into the classroom to implement all of this new knowledge :)

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Hi Parents. Supporting your children is difficult at any time. We are creating some videos that we hope make things a bit easier during this challenging time. If you have topics you'd like to see addressed, please let us know. You can use the Contact link on this site.

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Hi Parents. Supporting your children is difficult at any time. We are creating some videos that we hope make things a bit easier during this challenging time. If you have topics you'd like to see addressed, please let us know. You can use the Contact link on this site.

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writing teaching parent book making "down time" "kathy collins" "matt glover" "lanesha tabb"

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Resources for parents to support their children's learning in writing and reading.

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Takeaways - Shared reading is very powerful. I loved some of the strategies we could see today.

Wonderings - How to improve our large group time?

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great ideas to set-up my story workshop! :)

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Takeaways -  The importance of using chants and decodable texts. Sts take photos of their work.

Wonderings - How may these look in an online setting?

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Takeaways: developing reader identity and understating about shared reading vs read aloud 😁

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Takeaways: developing reader identity and understating about shared reading vs read aloud 😁

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Wondering: If I have a class of 17 and have special needs students like autistic and can't sit or participate what do I do like how to include him/ her in the workshop.

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T-I will implement the students organization pockets/ folders. giving them ownership of their work.
W- how to empower parents in supporting teaching R&W at home during RL.

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Takeaway- Having books accessible in many spaces in the classroom.
Wondering- How to make it quick and attainable when I have to completely clean up my room at the end of the day.

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How we can work on presenting books in interesting and inviting ways.
Jackie

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Takeaway-LOVE the idea of keeping the conferring sheet/record with the kids. It is OUR conversation. Totally going to do that and tell everyone else to as well:)

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T: The importance of shared reading
W: How to squeeze it all in?( All components of balanced literacy)
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Liz denmark                                 i will use my big book rhymes more often and want to use my  floor book ideas for documenting writers workshop 

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Takeaways - Look at scheduling and how to fit everything in. Need to do more shared reading (books and rhymes) with the children.
Wonderings -

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Takeaway - I stopped doing many of of the explicit the shared and read aloud strategies I use to use in Grade 1 when I started teaching younger children. Why did I do that? I need to bring those back to support phonemic awareness and early literacy skills.
Wondering - how do we best support workshop virtually? How do we give real feedback to young students on the work they are doing virtually?

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Takeaway-Shared reading has superpowers.
Wonderings-How would it look like in the class when we cannot share books after Covid 19? Individual book box?

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Take aways- I enjoyed Natasha introducing the story, and how the 1st paragraph was decomposed and used to get children to "guess" the word under the sticky note. It was not only a phonics lesson , it also taught comprehension as the word had to make sense in the sentence.

Wondering- How to pick stories to keep a variety of readers (3/4) interested for a period of time (same story for several days)gifted readers, Multi-lingual and Sped  students. &
How to transition/encourage children to move to the next (written)story instead of continuing to work on the one they have been working on, as they feel comfortable in.

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T: Provocations & Books. Labelling and commenting using pictures. Great ideas. Love them all.
W: Distance learning. Best way to read a book using zoom.

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Takeaways: the power of shared reading even with older kids.

Wonderings: how to implement it more into the schedule with a large class (26).

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Takeaway- Reminder to write out some of the many rhymes and songs I sing/chant with the children to focus on them as shared reading pieces with 4-5year olds.
Wondering- I am moving to a younger class and so don't yet have much of a schedule but I am wondering about the schedules of others in my group.

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Takeaways

Refresher on Balanced Literacy components and intentional focuses for repeated reading & shared reading

Wonderings

Providing students with a variety of digital texts for virtual reading

Implementing balanced literacy via virtual learning

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Takeaway: Easy language switch -- positive presuppositions to build identity; importance of balanced literacy not just workshop

Wonderings: scheduling and fitting it all in in both on-site or virtual learning; also online engagement for these youngest of learners

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Takeaway: I was able to understand better the idea of shared reading and read aloud.
I love the concept of developing identities as readers.
Wondering: I am still not able to visualize how to embed it all within our schedule...

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Takeaway - to revisit books to dive deeper
Wonderings - How to become a better Storyteller as a Teacher

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Takeaways:  It was helpful to unpack the different ways to teach young learners reading.
Wonderings:  Do you think Isit is appropriate to implement a word study program like Words Their Way or Fundations in a Pre-K (4yr old) program.  If so, would you recommend doing a baseline assessment?
Another Wondering:  How do you feel about implementing a digital reading program like "Razz Kids" to a 4 yr old classroom. We ended up doing this during remote learning to ensure our students had access to plenty of books.
Could you add the Shared Reading slide that you shared today to the padlet?
Thank you so much!

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Takeaways-scheduling in and protecting storytelling time will be very helpful for supporting all of the practices we have been thinking about over this course. Great ideas from campfire group to incorporate MotherTongue guest storytellers, etc.
Wonderings- What play area things can I incorporate for storytelling as well and how to capture those ideas most effectively.

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The Lonely tree

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Summer School: watch and learn
My two daughters teach me all about play-based.

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Saturday in the Park...a Rescue Story!

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Dawn

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Justine - In the magical land of fairies and dragons

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Justine - In the magical land of fairies and dragons

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Darren - A Trip To Tromso

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Lindsey

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The KAUST School, KSA

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Light

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The Fairies Escape

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Memories.

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Different paths

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Takeaway - Importance of honouring play and the story making process before the children write. I love this workshop! Thank you
Wondering - How to get this style of workshop working in the classroom? How to modelling, transferring the provocations over to writing.

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Megan (and sons)

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Importance of focussing on 'making' the story first and then transferring,especially for younger learners as in block play etc. to booklet or paper
Wondering- What this will look like at start of school year for new four year olds. Thinking that first comes teaching the children how to use and tidy away materials such as paint and blocks, then comes making stories, then transferring- withlots of modelling foreach step??

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The Reading GPS gives teachers information about whether students are moving toward the goal of proficient reading.

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Sulzby Stages of Emergent Storybook Reading

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Sulzby Stages of Emergent Storybook Reading

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Sulzby Classification of Emergent Readers

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Sulzby Classification of Emergent Readers

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Letter Lessons & First Words by Heidi Anne Mesmer

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AERO Foundational Skills Standards & Benchmarks

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AERO Foundational Skills Standards & Benchmarks

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Email: afenneman@marymountrome.com

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Takeaway - This is all so perfect considering we will soon start a school year and implementing these ideas and strategies will be GREAT! I can't wait!!!!! INSPIRED BY THIS COURSE!!!!
Wonderings - Combine play with  writing during DL????