Reading is Elementary

A place to share successful strategies in teaching children how to read. Everyone is welcome--educators and parents alike! Let's get down to business and discuss what makes a life-long lover of literature!

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

A Parent's Perspective of STAAR

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I just posted a reflection on third grade STAAR on my personal blog. No need to retype it here, but if you'd like to read it, you can vi...

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Weighing the Pig

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I cannot take credit for this adage, but I love it, and I repeat the moral of the story quite often. In this day and age of tests, tests, an...

Prove It!

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It's that time of year again when we start the slow painful process of passeging our students to death. If you're a new teacher--or ...

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Why Teachers Need Two Weeks Off at Christmas

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This is my fifteenth Christmas as an educator. Having worked in both retail and corporate before this, I know that everyone deserves a brea...

Friday, December 11, 2015

5 Ways to Communicate Better with Language Processing/Autistic Students

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As the parent of a child with autism, my patience has multiplied a thousand fold since she joined us on this earth some eight and a half yea...

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Amy: I am the mother of two amazing daughters, an educator, and love to make crafts and write. I have several blogs, some of which I maintain regularly and others not so much. You can follow any or all, but I thank you for visiting and I hope to bring some sort of happiness, joy, and hope to your life.

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