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Teaching Tips, Readiness
Before a child learns to write, they need to build pre-writing foundation skills to prepare them for successful handwriting in the classroom. Pre-writing activities are designed to foster body awareness, build fine motor skills, and promote good posture. Once children have mastered these important steps, they can begin to write with automaticity—without having to stop and think about the mechanics of handwriting.
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Teaching Tips
As the school year gears up, the leaves begin to change, and students fall into a routine, your lesson plans and writing activities may need an autumnal boost! Check out our fall-inspired ideas for narrative, information, and opinion writing activities:
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Multisensory Learning
Cursive in 2018? Didn’t we leave cursive behind in the 1800s?
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Edtech, In the News
Happy Digital Citizenship Week! We’re celebrating the importance of smart, safe, and responsible behavior in the digital world from October 15–19.
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In the News, Ask the Experts
You already know it’s important to evaluate your students periodically. But what’s the best way to assess? And how do you interpret the data? Assessments aren’t the end of the learning process. Once you’ve evaluated your students, it’s time to start remediation based on the data gleaned from assessments.
4 minutes
Readiness, Teaching Tips
To play or not to play? That seems to be the perennial question in early education
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Teaching Tips, Multisensory Learning
Now that you’ve identified your students' developmental skill levels, you can lay a solid foundation for learning how to write and type.
2 minutes
Teaching Tips
Teachers of the world, today is dedicated to you! It’s World Teachers’ Day
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Announcements, Ask the Experts
You need better writers in your classroom, better test scores for your district, less remediation, and improved literacy skills. Simple, right?
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