Inspirational Ideas To Help Teachers Thrive
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Inspirational Ideas To Help Teachers Thrive
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CVC Words: Activities & Games Set 3
Are you teaching your kindergarten kids how to read and spell CVC words? Here you'll find CVC activities, games and worksheets.
Digraph Cootie Catchers
Cootie catchers are a fun way of combining a popular children’s game with some practice in reading, writing and spelling words that contain digraphs.
Skip Counting Puzzles by 2’s, 3’s, 4’s, 5’s and 10’s
Do your students need help with skip counting? These skip counting puzzles are a fabulous way to help your students master skip counting.
Phonics Cootie Catchers: Set B
Do you ever get tired of creating engaging phonics activities? These phonics cootie catchers will make learning and reviewing sounds fun for your students.
Or Sound Phonics Worksheets and Activities
This NO PREP Phonics pack will help your students master the or sound. It's filled with FUN activities that are perfect for stations or intervention.
Phonics Bingo Spelling Game – Advanced Code
This FUN and Ready to Use Phonics BINGO resource is a great way to use spelling games to help your students master their phonics sounds and spelling words.
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Need Word Work Activities For Your Classroom?
Word work activities encompass a lot. Let’s look at some of the best activities for word work centers as well as word work ideas that students can do at home.
The Top Teacher Must Haves Of The Year
Who knew masks would be a top teacher must have for this year? Had you Zoomed before? 2020 was a year with some unexpected teacher must have supplies.
How To Use Math Read Alouds With Your Class
Success with math read alouds starts with good books. Here are some favorite picture books for teaching math for a handful of topics to help you get started.
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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