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Unlock your students potential by integrating videos into your curriculum! 21st century teaching requires giving students a voice to learn, grow, and prepare for the world beyond the classroom walls. When students DO...they LEARN! What better way to foster students' potential than incorporating a "hands-on" approach to learning through use of video creation. Take their DOK to the highest level with projects, assessments, and presentations. This packet includes two versions for teacher use: 1

NEWLY UPDATED! BETTER GRAPHICS AND STRATEGY SPECIFIC PRACTICE! (ADDED FLIPPY DOLPHIN) Teach your students/children how to decode with this fun Beanie Baby Inspired activity. This activity contains 8 presentations that each offer a poster introducing each strategy, an explanation slide, a practice slide, and a review slide. Decoding strategies include Eagle Eye, Lips the Fish, Stretchy Snake, Flippy Dolphin, Chunky Monkey, Skippy Frog, Tryin' Lion, and Helpful Kangaroo. This powerpoint can b

Learn how to create green screen movies using DoInk and iMovie Apps! Show them to your students so they can independently make their own green screen presentations! Also included are easy to follow charts with step-by-step directions! This product combine two great products: Green Screen Video Tutorials Green Screen Step by Step Charts Visit my blog for more green screen ideas, examples, and tips:Link2Teach Blog {With all of my digital products, I will continually update them as updates or

Memorizing Strategies Doesn't Work! Young Readers Need Something More! As a reading specialist in grades K-2, I have been using the Beanie Baby reading strategies along with various other programs to meet my students’ beginning reading needs. When my students made a personal connection to the Beanie Babies, the strategies they represented began to stick. Although they love the beanies, I felt like the strategies they taught could go much deeper. I began to develop more complex decoding and

Promote positive behavior during the few weeks leading up to Christmas by using this highly motivational program! The Santa Cam program was created to help teachers continue to provide quality instruction uninterrupted by the excitement of Christmas in young students. This 2 week program provides daily challenges and goals for students and is playfully monitored through use of a Santa Cam. A Santa Cam is a device teachers wear attached to a lanyard and poses as a make-believe camera that pro

Teaching Students To Memorize Strategies Doesn't Work! Young Readers Need Something More! As a reading specialist in grades K-2, I have been using the Beanie Baby reading strategies along with various other programs to meet my students’ beginning reading needs. When my students made a personal connection to the Beanie Babies, the strategies they represented began to stick. Although they love the beanies, I felt like the strategies they taught could go much deeper. I began to develop more comp

Questioning is a task students rarely get to take part in. This task usually is completed by the teacher while the student assumes the role or answerer. Sadly, when teachers create all of the questions, students are missing out on a valuable opportunity to learn and practice a strategy that could potentially change their lives forever. Questioning enables people to think and act when posed with a problem. Questioning deeply, as practiced in this game/activity, can help students identify probl

Looking for powerful reading tools that can take your guided reading lessons beyond your wildest dreams? Proven effective and loved my young readers, this approach to teaching beginning reading skills will provide you with the most powerful lessons that truly work. With 28 years of teaching experience this reading specialist was fed up with the ever-changing curriculum thrown at students. It inspired the creation of a reading strategy program that remains consistent no matter what the curricula

Lights...Camera...Book Trailers!! Using iMovie Looking for an easy fun way to motivate your students to read? This packet will provide you with all of the steps needed in order to create and share iMovie Green Screen Book Trailers! Search no more through those lengthy videos that do not fit your specific needs. Each step is easily explained with screen cast tutorials, a powerpoint presentation, and multiple blog posts to help you learn how to put book trailers together like a pro! The packe

End your year with a digital BANG! Have your students create Digital Memory Books turned into VIDEOS! Parents and students will go crazy for this 21st-century twist on an old favorite. Share on Seesaw and watch the comments and hearts pour in! Digital Memory Books can be shared with multiple people easily unlike paper versions. Go digital with your students' memories. Digital Memory Books can add: -drawings & actual photos -students' voices -video created by the student -ease & shareabil

This reading interest inventory will provide you with the best questions to help you truly get to know your students as readers. Knowing your students is extremely important in order to fully meet their individual needs. There are many reading inventories out there, but some can be extremely long and readers tire when completing them causing them to rush or others do not provide vital information necessary in helping young readers find and get excited about reading books they will love. This

Looking for powerful reading tools that can take your guided reading lessons beyond your wildest dreams? Proven effective and loved my young readers, this approach to teaching beginning reading skills will provide you with the most powerful lessons that truly work. With 28 years of teaching experience this reading specialist was fed up with the ever-changing curriculum thrown at students. It inspired the creation of a reading strategy program that remains consistent no matter what the curricula

21st Century Learning Involves much more than digital experiences. It also means our students are collaborating, communicating, critically thinking, and being creative, BUT THAT’S NOT ALL! Today’s students need much more in order to be successful with all of these skills. What is that you ask? They need to BE THE BEST THEY CAN BE! They need to learn what makes students good learners. What makes people successful? This, my teacher friend, is the basis behind character education programs. B

Save 25% when purchasing this bundle instead of purchasing all items separately! TO PREVIEW WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE, CLICK ON LINKS BELOW! The products included in this bundle include: Free Beanie Baby Decoding Bookmarks Beanie Baby Decoding Strategy Powerpoint Lessons UPDATED Beanie Baby Decoding Strategy Game Beanie Baby Decoding Pointer Sticks All-in-One See Through Bookmark Beanie Baby Decoding Strategy Bracelets Beanie Baby Decoding Strategy Posters This bundle will provide you with

Looking for a way to make the most out of your reading centers time? Ever wonder how well a partner activity really went? This activity will provide you with an effective way to manage partner reading without having to actively observe each group. Each person plays a role during this activity of either the Reader or Listener. With each role comes responsibility which makes each participant accountable. At the end of the session each person evaluates his/her partner's performance. This act

Over 45 task cards for literacy centers providing endless practice in the areas of writing, partner reading, words, independent reading, and listening. All centers were created for use with iPads, whether you have 1:1 or very few, 1 iPad in each center can provide all you need for your digital literacy center needs. New to technology? Video tutorials are included to show you, the teacher, how each app suggested can be utilized for each center. Over 14 apps showcased that you and your students

Reward your young readers for all their hard work learning those Beanie Baby Reading Strategies with these amazing Beanie Baby Badges! Badges Included: (8 in all!) -Eagle Eye -Lips the Fish -Stretchy Snake -Flippy Dolphin -Chunky Monkey -Skippy Frog -Tryin' Lion -Question It Owl Each badge comes with a front showcasing the strategy Beanie Baby and a brief description of what students can do because of the strategy. They also provide a brief summary of tips and suggestions the Beanie Baby stra

This unit includes 20+ pages of reusable graphic organizers and multiple lessons utilizing quality children's books that will help your students understand the many ways to make inferences while reading. The unit begins with an anchor lesson teaching the concept of making inferences. The anchor lesson uses the story Two Bad Ants by Chris VanAllsburg. This story beautifully lends itself to making inferences with the help of the author's brilliant ability to use words and illustrations to lead

Beanie Baby Decoding Strategy Pointer Sticks are great for beginning readers! They remind students of the decoding strategies they are learning while providing them a fun tool for tracking print. I found that my students' fingers were getting tired when tracking print, so we tried other methods of pointing such as finger puppets, eyeball craft sticks, you name it...but they then lost their train of thought when having to look at the Beanie Baby Strategy charts or animals for decoding help. No

Wearable Decoding Reminders? How cool is that? My students LOVE to wear these decoding bracelets. I laminate them and apply velcro to the tabs and they last all year! I even send home a bracelet with each student to use at home. It's a great way to encourage use of these strategies wherever they are! Parents love them too! (I've had many ask me for replacement bracelets when lost.) A great way to help make at home decoding practice mirror school practice. If your kids love these, then v