Classroom-Based Intervention

4/25/20 Are you a: Special educator SLP Teacher of English Language Learners Teacher of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students? Is your school district is using EL Education as their ELA curriculum? Do your students need additional support in phonological awareness? This resource is for you! It is based on one of the trade books […]

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A Timely Sale for the Quick Guide for your Student with Hearing Loss

If you have not checked out this booklet, now is the time!  One reason is that it is on sale all week.  Second, it is a great activity to complete with your student or have your student complete to be ready to give to new teachers at the beginning of next school year.  Here at […]

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Walking in the Hall with a Student

Do you go to your student’s classroom to get him/her and walk back to your room and then walk the student back to his/her classroom?  This can be valuable time for assessing, bonding, and learning!  Picture having a conversation with the student in a noisy hall.  Walking side by side naturally minimizes the visual cues […]

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How to Save Money on TPT

Tomorrow (11/26/18) and Tuesday Rule the School will be participating in TeachersPayTeachers sitewide sale.  Everything in the store will be 20% off.  At checkout, don’t forget to apply TPT’s Promo code from the top of the page for an additional 5% off. Here are some helpful hints on saving money on TPT.  

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Follow-up to post “From the Beginning (or not)”

April 6, 2018 Earlier this year I posted about a new referral that I received, a kindergartner who had not been amplified before January, 2018.  I explained the testing that would be done.  I want to pick up there and broadly describe strengths and weaknesses and what interventions the IEP team agreed on. Overall the […]

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The Dot by Peter Reynolds

9/5/16 Have you read this great book with any of your students?  Many years ago I observed that some of my students had very negative self-talk.  Last week a teacher of one of my 4th graders told me the student said to him “I am the dumbest kid in the 4th grade”.  This breaks my […]

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