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Five Things I’ve Learned from Teaching During Covid

June 24, 2022June 24, 2022 MCinC 0 Comments covid, Covid-19, distance learning, LETRS Training, Orton-Gillingham, science of reading, virtual teaching

Wow! It’s been a minute since I’ve posted! Covid, training, and job changes have made this blogging thing super challenging.

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Distance Teaching with Crappy Internet
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Ten Thoughts about Distance Teaching with Crappy Internet

June 23, 2020June 23, 2020 MCinC 1 Comment bad Internet connections, CARES Act, Coronavirus, Covid-19, distance learning, distance teaching, Internet, Teaching in Quarantine, Wi-Fi

As I splatter-painted the cabinets in my very first classroom, I never dreamed that I’d be distance teaching out of

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Support Striving Readers During Poetry Instruction
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Five Ways to Support Striving Readers During Poetry Instruction

April 19, 2020April 19, 2020 MCinC 0 Comments figurative language, poetry, read aloud, scaffolded instruction, sensory language, striving readers, struggling readers

Looking for ideas to help reluctant students in language arts? Here are five ways to support striving readers during poetry instruction.

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Free Flipgrid Fliphunts
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4 Free Flipgrid Fliphunts

March 30, 2020March 30, 2020 MCinC 2 Comments

With all my colleagues learning to teach remotely, I’ve been exploring Flipgrid to try to support them with some cool

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Getting Started with Flipgrid and Five Ways to Use the App
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5 Ways to Use Flipgrid In Your Distance Learning Classroom

March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 MCinC 1 Comment distance learning, Flipgrid, Fliphunts, video response app for students, virtual learning

If you’re looking for an amazing on-line resource for distance and virtual learning, check out the free video discussion app,

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9 Free Distance Learning Products
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9 High-Quality Free Distance Learning Products For Kids

March 20, 2020March 20, 2020 MCinC 2 Comments

There’s nothing like good teacher friends during a crisis! I have a group of colleagues who are working together to

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If you're incorporating Sharon Creech's novels-in-verse into your poetry unit, here are the ways I use Love That Dog and Hate That Cat.
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Great Ideas and Books for Teaching Poetry in Elementary School

April 17, 2018April 16, 2018 MCinC 3 Comments Hate That Cat, Love That Dog, Poetry Month, teaching poetry

Welcome to Poetry Month! I love teaching poetry to elementary students, and I look so forward to this time of

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5 Turn and Talk Strategies to 10x Your Students' Engagement
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5 Ways to Monitor “Turn and Talk” and Maximize Student Engagement

April 7, 2018April 16, 2018 MCinC 0 Comments classroom discussion, Student talk, Turn and Talk

If your school district is like mine, you probably have a list of high-yield strategies near your computer to incorporate

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Six Word Memoirs will help your kids review material from all subject areas!
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9 Ways to Use “Six Word Memoirs” Across Your Curriculum

April 6, 2018April 16, 2018 MCinC 0 Comments bell ringers, entrance tickets, exit tickets, formative assessment, gifted education, Six Word Memoirs

When Smith Magazine introduced their edgy story-telling concept known as the Six Word Memoir Project, they launched a brevity revolution!

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Classroom Commuity
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5 Easy Ways to Build Classroom Community from Day One

April 4, 2018April 16, 2018 MCinC 0 Comments classroom community, classroom management, connect with students

We teachers do hear about ways to build classroom community, but standards, curriculum, and data still dominate the conversation. Our

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