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A helpful do and don't list for teaching vocabulary

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10 Principles for Effective Vocabulary Instruction (and 10 Things to Avoid!)

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10 Principles for Effective Vocabulary Instruction (and 10 Things to Avoid!) by mchen1313 on Indulgy.com

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Free primary reading strategies bookmark. Helpful for decoding words.

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Reading Strategies These Reading Strategies Bookmarks were a customer request to support the reading strategies posters that are found in my reading units. Students can use these in their book boxes or to hold a spot in their books as a reminder of the strategies they are working on while reading independently.

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This site has resources for parent materials in Spanish, ESL proficiency benchmarks, and a resource for telling stories through comic strips.

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If you are a teacher, you will eventually need to have resources to help you teach students who are English Language Learners. Here's a quick round up of my favorite go-to resources for working with ELLs. Enjoy!

ColorinColorado.org - Picture Reading Rockets in a Bilingual Format... Yep, it's amazing. It contains resources for Parents, Teachers, Students, and Administrators in English and Spanish from Pre-K through High School. They are translating the parent and student resources into many languages, so keep checking back if you need resources in a language other than Spanish. Also, they have many timely topics, such as Guidance and Resources for Schools and Staff Working with Unaccompanied Minors.

LearnAlberta.ca - Benchmarks, Strategies and Resources for Teachers of English Language Learners. I constantly use the K-12 ESL Proficiency Benchmarks search, which gives you information based on different levels of language acquisition. I just discovered the student writing samples and analysis, and I think this is incredibly helpful for teachers across the globe (even if you don't teach in Canada.)

BrainPopESL.com - Yessir... Brain Pop geared towards English Language Learners. This is a pay subscription service, so try the free resources before deciding to sign up to make sure it meets the needs of your classroom.

CAPL: Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon - (located online at http://capl.washjeff.edu/) This amazing resource provides images demonstrating the true meaning/intention for words in a variety of languages. This is a work in progress so not all words are represented, but it does help teachers to remove any cultural bias when assisting ELLs.

MakeBeliefsComix.com - This is a wonderful way for all students to tell stories through comic strips. My students always enjoyed selecting their characters, making them talk with speech bubbles, adding thought bubbles to show character motivation, and telling their stories. This appeals to reluctant writers, too! The site is bilingual (English/Spanish) and is also available as a free app in the iTunes store.

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5 Resources for Teachers of English Language Learners

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If you are a teacher, you will eventually need to have resources to help you teach students who are English Language Learners. Here's a quick round up of my favorite go-to resources for working with ELLs. Enjoy! ColorinColorado.org - Picture Reading Rockets in a Bilingual Format... Yep, it's amazing.

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Reading Comprehension: Tips and Strategies for Parents

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Literacy Checklists in English and Spanish

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Literacy Checklists in English and Spanish

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These are checklists for parents and teachers in both English and Spanish.

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Use the literacy checklists to create a literacy-friendly home or classroom.

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This would be a neat activity for spelling lists and/or word wall words.

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Writing center ideas for word wall activities. The activities are differentiated.

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Writing Center Activities for Young Learners {Part 1}

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Kindergartners and First Graders love to write! Friends' names, word wall words, color words, number words, shopping lists, sentences. You name it, they'll

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How to code a running record

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running records 1:  coding a running record part 1

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Uploaded by artfulreading on 2009-10-24.

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Sight word video.

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The Sight Word Song  High frequency word song rap for kids

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A quick running record calculator to use when you don't have access to the Fountas and Pinnell calculator.

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Calculating Running Records

Primary school teachers and other educators can use this free tool to calculate students running records. Scoring includes Error Ratio, Accuracy percentage, and Self-correction Ratio. If you find this tool useful, please bookmark it for later use, and recommend it to your friends and teaching colleagues.

How to best use Running Records?

For a great concise guide on everything you need to know about Running Records we recommend picking up Running Records for Classroom Teachers (second edition) on Amazon - it's only a short read, but covers everything you need to be able to confidently use this in your teaching.

Teachers Notepad

Also by the creators of WordCalc - our husband and wife team is drawing on 16 years experience teaching primary school children to bring you free teaching tools, techniques and resources!

Check out some of our latest ones here:

Download 20 Picture Prompts Free!

We've made a stack of inspiring picture prompts for you and your class to use. Download all 20 high resolution PDFs in one pack right now - only shared with our TeachersNotepad community!

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Primary school teachers and other educators can use this free tool to calculate students running records. Scoring includes Error Ratio, Accuracy percentage, and Self-correction Ratio. If you find this tool useful, please bookmark it for later use, and recommend it to your friends and teaching colleagues.

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Let Spelly Pelican help you practice the Dolch Sight Words! First, make sure your sound is on, then choose one of the following word lists: Pre-primer, Primer, First, Second, or Third. Correctly spell all of the words that you hear, and have fun exploring the ocean depths!

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Fluent Reader Checklist.  Free from TPT
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREE-Oral-Reading-Fluency-Posters-and-Fluent-Reader-Checklist-1477407

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Word Wall Activity Resource.  This  a treasure trove of activities that can be used for word walls at all grade levels.
http://www5.esc13.net/thescoop/ell/files/2013/12/IWW-Handouts.pdf

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This is a fun interactive activity for sorting word wall words in centers.

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Tick Tock goes the Word Wall clock.

Time's almost up Folks and we need to get these words off the wall and

into their brains ASAP!

To help our class master the Word Wall without even knowing it, we created Word Wall Spin!

We print, cut and laminate enough spinners for each student to use in one of our center groups.

They sit in front of our Word Wall or at their desks with a smaller word list and start spinning!

We use the below worksheets to differentiate the learning.

With each spin, they find a word that matches and record the word under the correct column.

Younger learners may not be ready for lines yet...

Primary students can use the "roads" to write.

Upper Grade kiddos can ditch the roads and go straight for the lines, no center divider.

They did say they "Can" define and they "Can" write sentences with these words...

Just wanting them to PROVE IT show what they know...

Plus, it's not summer quite yet, so sit tight.

This is also a great activity to leave for a sub...
You know, if you happen to need a tast summer day.
Or, if you are a sub...
A great activity to take with you because
you can use any words in any classroom!

Grab your own Word Wall Spin! *free" in our TpT Shop.

Click the Pic below to spin on over...

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Grab something to finish up this year, or stock up and save for next year!

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Tick Tock goes the Word Wall clock. Time's almost up Folks and we need to get these words off the wall and into their brains ASAP! To help our class master the Word Wall without even knowing it, we created Word Wall Spin!