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Inspirational Ideas To Help Teachers Thrive
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Phonics Snakes and Ladders Games – Basic Code
Your beginning readers are going to LOVE these Phonics Snakes and Ladders Games for reading and spelling. This game is perfect for first grade students.
Safety Story Retell Lesson Plan
Help your students work on essential reading skills like story retell and sequencing using an original social story that is perfect to use for small groups.
Cootie Catchers – CVC Words
Keep phonics fun—and easy for you with cvc cootie catchers! These folded papers are a great way to practice the skills of blending and segmenting sounds.
Halloween Classroom Job Charts
Having classroom helpers promotes responsibility and community, and these cute Halloween classroom job charts make managing classroom jobs easier.
Printable Lesson Plan Templates
Are you looking for an easy way to keep track of important tasks and lessons? Then this printable lesson plan templates pack is just what you need!
Phonics Worksheets and Activities for CCVCC CVCCC CCCVC
This NO PREP Phonics pack will keep your students engaged in reading and spelling words with the ccvcc, cvccc, cccvc spelling patterns.
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Monitoring Progress: 3 Data Dos And Don’ts
Are you drowning in data (or wishing you had more)? Let’s look at some best practices and tools for dealing with data and monitoring progress.
Why Recognizing Teachers Matters And 3 Things You Can Do For Colleagues
Recognizing teachers can start with you. Here are 3 things you can do to show appreciation for other teachers — and it doesn’t have to take a lot.
4 Cool Vocabulary Instruction Ideas For Your Classroom
Students need repeated and varied opportunities to interact with vocabulary words. Here are four ways to embed vocabulary instruction in your classroom.
Top-Notch Teaching is the brainchild of Mel Crean – ex-teacher now literacy expert and long-time advocate and coach of teachers across the globe.
Mel’s experience includes remote primary school teaching in the far north of Western Australia, in-class coaching of graduate teachers, education program management, specialist dyslexia teaching, and one-on-one literacy intervention.
Mel believes teaching is a journey. It can be rewarding, inspiring, funny, hard work, and sometimes overwhelming. She will help you navigate your journey as a teacher by providing resources that save time, inspire, and motivate.
Top-Notch Teaching is the brainchild of Mel Crean – ex-teacher now literacy expert and long-time advocate and coach of teachers across the globe.
Mel’s experience includes remote primary school teaching in the far north of Western Australia, in-class coaching of graduate teachers, education program management, specialist dyslexia teaching, and one-on-one literacy intervention.
Mel believes teaching is a journey. It can be rewarding, inspiring, funny, hard work, and sometimes overwhelming. She will help you navigate your journey as a teacher by providing resources that save time, inspire, and motivate.
Top-Notch Teaching was recently selected as a Top Australian Education Blog for 2019 by Twinkl – read what they had to say here.

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