Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Parent Tips for Reading at Home with Your Child

Whitney Garrett and Dr. Angie Child (known by teachers as The Simple Teachers) would like to give a shout-out to PARENTS as they are taking on the big responsibility of helping their kids learn at home.

We want to share with parents a few very easy tips to support your child's reading. 

This video will show you exactly what you can do to reduce frustration and improve their reading!



If you want more videos about teaching reading, go to our YouTube channel and subscribe! 
This blog also has a lot of resources for reading as well! Have fun surfin' our blog!  


Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Teacher Center: Tier 2 Phonics Intervention

Welcome to our Series: Teacher Center!
In these videos we use metacognition at its best! 

We provide 5 things for you in our new Teacher Center videos:
1) Watch good teaching
2) Discuss what is being done/seen
3) Hear about the choices made when the lesson was planned
4) Hear about the choices made during the teaching
5) Discuss what ideas could be improved upon in the future or in different circumstances.

What a great way to learn from each other!  We hope you will share in our learning and be metacognitive with us about teaching!

In today's "Teacher Center" video, we will be watching Whitney teach a TIER 2 Phonics Intervention. Enjoy!


Thank you Whitney for letting us into your classroom.
We are blessed to see you teach!


Tuesday, March 17, 2020

How to Plan a Comprehension Lesson

Need help planning Comprehension Strategy Instruction Lessons?  We have taken the time to walk through the thinking of how to plan a lesson in this video.  We want to help make strategy instruction easier and hope this does the trick!



Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Top 10 Classroom Management Tips

Our latest Top 10 list is out:  Top 10 of Classroom Management!  We hope this list helps you and gives you either ideas to use or a good pat on the back that you are great!



Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Let's Talk! Academic Language Stems

ATTENTION, NEW PRODUCT!!! View Preview HERE.

Talk, Talk, Talk! Getting your students talking is critical to deepening their understanding.  Using our teacher and student friendly Academic Language Stems resource will help you get kids talking while using academic language!  We briefly explain what these academic stems are and include posters and student cards to help get you started using academic language stems in your classroom.  Get those kids talking!

(Also, stay tuned for upcoming videos this April and May to be released on our YouTube channel about using academic language and talking in the classroom!)


Click HERE to download the product.


Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Teacher Center: Tier 2 Comprehension Extension

Welcome to our *NEW-ISH* Series: Teacher Center!
In these videos we use metacognition at its best! 

We provide 5 things for you in our new Teacher Center videos:
1) Watch good teaching
2) Discuss what is being done/seen
3) Hear about the choices made when the lesson was planned
4) Hear about the choices made during the teaching
5) Discuss what ideas could be improved upon in the future or in different circumstances.

What a great way to learn from each other!  We hope you will share in our learning and be metacognitive with us about teaching!

In today's "Teacher Center" video, we will be watching Whitney teach a TIER 2 Comprehension lesson that extends a higher group of students. Enjoy!

Thank you Whitney for letting us into your classroom.
We are blessed to see you teach!