Today's Teaching Tips Podcast

If you have ever wondered why students are not retaining new vocabulary words that you are reading to them, it may be because they need more than to listen to books with great vocabulary; they need d…

Use today's tips to help you notice when students are reading with great silent reading fluency or not.  Today's episode is awesome because I'll give you several practical ways to notice students bei…

Use today's tips to help you notice when students are reading with great oral reading fluency or not.  Today's episode is awesome because I'll give you several practical ways to notice students being…

Sometimes it can be a challenge to know if students are struggling with silent reading fluency or not.  Today's episode is great because I'll give you several practical ways to watch if a student str…

Sometimes it can be a challenge to know if students are struggling with oral reading fluency or not.  Today's episode is great because I'll give you several practical ways to watch if a student strug…

Have you ever wondered, what does fluent reading look like?  In this episode we'll chat about 3 characteristics of fluent reading.  We'll break it down into 3 workable parts to help students.

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Have you ever wondered, what does fluent reading look like?  In this episode we'll chat about 3 characteristics of fluent reading.  We'll break it down into 3 workable parts to help students.

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Reading fluency is such a critical reading skills that requires lots of direction instruction and practice.  Listen in to today's episode to hear about 7 big reasons to teach fluency.

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Because Interactive Read Alouds are so important and play a major role in all literacy instruction, we should spend some time thinking deeply about how to prepare for them! 

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Today's episode is awesome because it breaks down how to plan and administer an amazing IRA in 5 simple steps.  You're not going to want to miss this episode if you teaching reading and writing to ki…

Not only are IRA's so much fun, they also offer 5 BIG payoffs that every students can take advantage off!  Listen in to hear what these payoffs are.

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Interactive Read Alouds are really the heart and soul of SO much related to literacy instruction.  They can be the FOUNDATION to your reading and writing workshops.  Listen in for the 6 big character…

Listen in and hear what happens on a typical Monday with a differentiated spelling curriculum.

To see and interactive spelling program for grades 2-5 visit www.jenbengelspelling.com 

You're going to love listening to this episode, where I break down what's inside a spelling notebook!  

To see and interactive spelling program for grades 2-5 visit www.jenbengelspelling.com 

Are you wondering how in the world you can administer 30 different spelling tests each week if each student has a different spelling list?  I'll show you how in this episode.  It's actually quite sim…

If you are tired of using the same old traditional spelling approach and wondering if there is something better, then listen in to this episode.  I have great news for you!! 

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If you are wondering if there's more to interactive notebooks than cutting and pasting, I'm here to tell you...there is!  Listen in to hear my take on how interactive notebooks should be interactive.

Today we dive into ways we can take students' responses to interactive edits and use them for our grammar instruction.  This is the best kind of instruction because we are covering a needed skill tha…

Listen in for 2 ways you can use interactive edits in your classroom and create stronger grammar and mechanics lessons today! 

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In this episode we look at a sample interactive edit and think about some things students might say in response to their edit.  We start talking about how we can use their response to create amazing …