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Fall Displays Nursery Rhymes Picking Apples and Pumpkins (fall theme) The Mitten (winter theme) The Snowy Day (winter theme) The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Paws, Claws, Hands, and Feet by Kimberly Hutmacher is a rhythmic rhyming book about animals and how they use their appendages. A book like this is especially helpful for exposing children to a variety of verbs that they may not ordinarily use. When asked to describe what feet can do, many of my lower elementary students would say: walk, run, stand, hop, or jump. After reading this book, they discover that feet can also: cling, leap, dash, roam, etc.

List of books with repeated lines useful for helping students practice learning to read or learn language. When teaching language, use stories and songs with lines that repeat, with more lines that repeat, and with even more lines that repeat. When targeting specific words, expose students to the same words over and over and over and over and over. Use the Symbolate feature of Boardmaker to place pictures over each word to adapted stories or books with repetitive lines.  

"Find Similar or Opposite words at WordHippo Oh ... There's a bunch of other stuff you can do too."

There are three basic types of mnemonic strategies: Keyword - A keyword is a familiar word that sounds similar to the word or idea being taught. Keywords are generally used with an illustration of some type. Pegword - Pegwords refer to a set of rhyming

Easy, tangible ways to teach math.

lists of words by family and some printables