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Tip of the Week Archives
Every week we email a free tip for teachers, literacy leaders, curriculum specialists, and principals. The tips are short, to the point, and cover a wide range of subjects. To sign up for the tip of the week, use the sign-up form on the top right. Here is where you will find archived issues of The Tip of the Week.
Please be aware that links in older issues may no longer be active, and special offers to subscribers may have expired.
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Tip of the Week November 14, 2008
Learning Basic Sight Words - Tips, Websites and Photos - Oh My! Sight words are a foundational piece to reading text accurately and with fluency. This week we share some wonderful i . . . more . . .
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Tip of the Week November 7, 2008
Reading Log Do you keep a Reading Log, carefully recording title, author, genre and comments regarding every book you read? Few of us do. So why do so many of us ask our students to . . . more . . .
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Tip of the Week October 31, 2008
Listen to Reading Websites We constantly keep our ears open for great websites that read to our students. Many authors can be heard reading their children's books on their websites, . . . more . . .
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Tip of the Week October 24, 2008
Partnering with Parents: Communicating Cafe Menu Skills and Strategies We can't help but think of parents often this time of year, as we prepare for conferences with them. One of t . . . more . . .
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Tip of the Week October 17, 2008
Recording Assessment Data We were talking in our staff room this week about how each year it seems as though we have more to teach and more assessments to give. One of our new teachers . . . more . . .
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Tip of the Week October 10, 2008
Seating Options Thoughtful seating options have the power to make our classrooms work more efficiently and productively. As we take a look at this week's FAQ, seating in our classroom . . . more . . .
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Tip of the Week October 3, 2008
Adding Strategy Cards to the CAFE Menu Our system for posting reading strategies on the CAFE Menu has changed over the years. We look back now and see it as a continuum of our own le . . . more . . .
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Tip of the Week September 26, 2008
Managing Choice in Daily 5 When you enter a classroom that uses the Daily 5 as its literacy system, you may see children "Reading to Self", "Reading to Someone", "Listening to Reading . . . more . . .
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Tip of the Week September 19, 2008
Build Stamina - How Long? Can it be that we are already half way through the month of September? By this point, many of our routines are beginning to jell, kids are starting to settl . . . more . . .
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Tip of the Week September 12, 2008
Substitute Plans So many teachers love Daily 5 but worry about what to do when they must be gone from the classroom. "How do you explain to a guest teacher the structure of Daily 5 . . . more . . .
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Tip of the Week September 5, 2008
Curriculum Calendar During our CAFE classes, we share the form we use for mapping out our whole group lessons for the year. We refer to this as our Curriculum Calendar. . . . more . . .
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Tip of the Week August 29, 2008
Introducing the Daily 5 to Parents Beginning each school year is such an exciting time, in particular when we go back to school with new learning that we believe will enhance our child . . . more . . .
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Tip of the Week August 22, 2008
Literacy Cafe' Bulletin Board Headings We have received overwhelming requests from members to make available downloads of the Literacy Cafe headings we use on the bulletin bo . . . more . . .
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Tip of the Week August 8, 2008
Daily 5 - The First Days of Preteaching Daily 5 Skills As we have traveled around the country and world so many of you have asked, "What does your literacy block look like during . . . more . . .
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Tip of the Week August 1, 2008
Library Makeover, Third in a Three Part Series The past two weeks Tip of the Week addressed Classroom Libraries, a Fresh Way to Organize. This week is our third and final component to th . . . more . . .
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