How to Organize a Focus Wall in the Classroom

Don't miss this one! Whitney shares her focus wall with us and gives great ideas for making your own focus wall meaningful and useful to you and your students! 

Nonsense Word Fluency: What and Why

Questions about Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF)?  We have answers in today's video!

NWF is an assessment we use to see how well students are applying their phonics blending or decoding skills.  We will help you understand NWF so you can use it as a meaningful and valuable assessment in your classroom.

Classroom Set-up Tips: Do it once to last all year!

Who is teaching students in a classroom this year?! For those that are, classroom set-up tips are handy to help save you time and money! Use these tips to save you time now and in the future.  These tips are things we have found to help us do things once and they last so we aren't constantly re-doing them all year long.

Enjoy! 

Academic Language Stems - TALK, TALK, Talk!

2020... the year of COVID-19, online learning, and more! We've had to step back for a little while due to busy lives and we hope to be more regular beginning today! First, we hope you're finding ways to have joy and happiness in your teaching experience! Hopefully this video, filmed awhile ago 😅, gives you some hope and light in your lives. Talking, in any platform of teaching, is amazing!

Talk, Talk, Talk! In today's video we talk about the importance of talking in the classroom! We need to be giving our students lots of opportunity to talk in the classroom using academic language stems. Oral language is the foundation of all literacy!

For help within your classroom, check our our "Let's Talk! Academic Language Stems" resource!