Methods Matter
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Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
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I am an Ontario elementary educator with over two decades of classroom experience dedicated to refining instructional practices that support student learning. My work focuses on explicit, evidence-based methods in both literacy and mathematics, with a focus on using precise instruction to meet students where they are and accelerate their growth. All resources in this store are teacher-tested in the classroom and built to support real teachers with clear routines, strong foundations, and meaningful learning.
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Fluency & Phrasing Routine
Explicit Fluency and Phrasing RoutineBuild smooth, connected reading with decodable textSupport your students in moving beyond word-by-word reading with this explicit, teacher-guided fluency routine. Designed for use with decodable texts (including UFLI lessons), this resource makes phrasing visible and teaches students how fluent reading should sound. Grounded in research on guided oral reading and phrase-cued instruction (Rasinski; Kuhn & Stahl), this routine helps students develop prosody whi
1st - 3rd
Reading, Science of Reading
3:12
Constructing The Five Frame - Hospital Nursery Context
Support deep number sense from the very beginning with this free professional learning video from Methods Matter. In this teacher-facing video, you’ll learn how to intentionally construct the 5-frame mathematical model using a meaningful hospital nursery context (five babies and five bassinets) in Kindergarten. Rather than introducing the 5-frame as an abstract graphic with arbitrary rules, this approach builds the structure through context first—so the mathematics makes sense to students. The
Kindergarten
Arithmetic, Mental Math, Numbers
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Experience
I am an Ontario elementary educator with over two decades of classroom experience dedicated to refining instructional practices that support student learning. My work focuses on explicit, evidence-based methods in both literacy and mathematics, with a focus on using precise instruction to meet students where they are and accelerate their growth. All resources in this store are teacher-tested in the classroom and built to support real teachers with clear routines, strong foundations, and meaningful learning.
My own education history
Qualifications:
Master of Education, University of Ottawa
Bachelor of Education, University of Ottawa
Additional Qualifications in Literacy and Mathematics (Ontario)
Over two decades of elementary classroom experience
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