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Inspirational Ideas To Help Teachers Thrive
Bring some FUN back into spelling!Sign up for the Spelling Game Challenge, and you’ll get a new spelling game each day for 5 days!
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Phonics Homework for the ENTIRE Year
Looking for skills-based phonics activities that are fun and engaging? Then you need this Phonics Homework Bundle. You’ll get 100 weeks of phonics activities.
Consonant Blends Cootie Catchers – 5/6 Sound Words
Your students will love these Consonant Blends Cootie Catchers and Fortune Tellers and you will love just how much reading and spelling practice they get!
Multiplication Task Cards | Times Tables Facts Games and Activities
Help your students review and practice multiplication with these task cards. Students will work on recalling times tables facts and multiplying whole numbers.
Skip Counting Puzzles Bundle
This skip counting puzzles bundle brings together 100 ready to print puzzles that are easy to use so are perfect for a math center or individual practice.
Phonics Bingo Games for CVC, CVCC, CCVC and More
Engage your students in phonics practice with a fun and interactive phonics bingo game that your students will LOVE. Perfect for word work centers.
Spelling Card Game for Advanced Spelling Patterns
Give your students a fun and interactive way to practice advanced spelling patterns with this Spelling Card Game that is perfect for a whole class warm-up.
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7 Ways To Make Homework Fun For Back To School
Are you tired of the same old same old homework or heading back to school and need new ideas? Here are some creative homework ideas to put into the mix.
How A Phonics Scope And Sequence Can Organize Your Lessons
A phonics scope and sequence provides a systematic and explicit plan for teaching phonics and the core code knowledge. Grab your free scope and sequence.
How To Teach Telling Time In 2022 With New Activities
When we talk about teaching time, we want students to tell the time using analog and digital clocks, figure out elapsed time and write time in different ways.
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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