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How to Read a Book to Your Child

How to Read a Book to Your Child

The most important thing that parents can do to assist their children in education is to read to them.  Reading opens up new worlds to your child, stimulates their imagination, and exposes them to vocabulary that is not common in conversation. Reading promotes cognitive development.…

Fiction versus Non-fiction a fun active way to teach ( Distance Learning or Classroom)

Fiction versus Non-fiction a fun active way to teach ( Distance Learning or Classroom)

BOOK SORT: Either gather up a selection of books in your home or classroom or have your child pick books off the bookshelf.  * Ask your child to sort them into piles Once they have done this ask them how they chose to sort them.…

How to Work with Mixed Groups in Speech and Language Therapy

How to Work with Mixed Groups in Speech and Language Therapy

How do you work with mixed groups in speech and language therapy? Working in groups in speech and language therapy can be challenging. Often the students will not all be on the same level. You may need to work with a classroom group in which…

Developing a literature unit: Tier Two vocabulary, Bloom’s questions

Developing a literature unit: Tier Two vocabulary, Bloom’s questions

My plan this summer was to create units using literature and having all the resources in one place.  As I have been using children’s literature I have been able to discover that there are some stories in which some of the extensions to create deeper…