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It is exciting to know that teachers visit our class website to get ideas for their own classrooms. We receive many emails from teachers about the website, and we apologize that we don't have to time to respond to all of your comments and questions. However, you can post your comments and questions for us on Beth's Scholastic Top Teaching blog. |
Take a Virtual Tour of our 2010-2011 Classroom Makeover!
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Monthly Top Ten Lists |
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During the 2010-2011 school year, Beth created Top 10 List on her Scholastic Top Teaching blog at the beginning of each month. the lists include timely lesson ideas, instructional videos, technology tips, management tools, links to cool Web sites, and, of course, a window into our classroom so that you can see what we do with our students each month. |
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May Top Ten List: Planning a Productive Summer for You and Your Students This post includes effective ways that you can motivate your students to reflect on a year of reading in your classroom and make plans to continue reading over the summer. I also include ideas for my fellow teachers to help make your summer as productive as possible.
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April Top Ten List: Going Green at School This post includes creative ways that you can help your school become a green school. I share the things that we have done at Hill Elementary to become an official state of Michigan "Green School."
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March Top Ten List:
Nonfiction Reading Resources This post includes resources for teaching nonfiction reading concepts including text features, text structures, comprehension strategies, and more! In the post, I include tons of posters, handouts, SMART Board lessons, and links to great websites.
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February Top Ten List: Fiction Reading Lessons & Resources This post includes resources from my fiction reading genre study including creative mini-lessons, useful printables and posters, interactive whiteboard resources, ideas for incorporating technology into your reading Workshop, and a links to a cool website where students can watch interviews with their favorite authors.
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January Top Ten List: Writing Workshop Lessons & Resources This post provides creative mini-lessons, useful printables and posters, interactive whiteboard resources, ideas for incorporating technology into your Writing Workshop, and links to cool Web sites where students can publish their work and receive tips from published authors. |
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December Top Ten List: 'Tis the Season! This post provides a variety of holiday service projects and classroom activities related to the holidays. SMART Board activities and many printables are available to download!
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November Top 10 List: WORD STUDY IN ACTION This post provides an incredibly detailed overview of the word study program we have implemented in our classroom. Sample word lists, game templates, SMART Board resources, and an instructional video are included.
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September Top 10 This is a collection of ideas for going back to school! Ideas for classroom design, building community, launching reading workshop, creating a classroom economy, and more! |
October Top 10 This list includes a virtual tour of our classroom, information about our new class theme, Rock Star of the Week, Newsletter templates, Mountain Math, SMART Board resources, Halloween ideas, online math resources, & more! |
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