Language
Word Walls
Jan 3rd
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Once your students start collecting new vocabulary, have them put them up on the wall. If they write them by themselves and then hang them on the wall with the definitions they also hand-wrote, the chance of that word staying in their vocabulary is much higher.
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Word Lists
Jan 1st
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Word lists are one of the best ways to get similar words out there. It takes numerous exposures to new vocabulary for students to retain the meaning of a word, let alone the spelling. Repeat, repeat, repeat… just like shampoo, eh? We’ve been hard at work making word lists so you don’t have to. View the fruits of our labors!
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Vowel Puzzles
Dec 30th
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Happy New Year! Or… almost anyway. This is the last post of the year, and I’d like to share with you our vowel puzzles. We’re doing more and more activities these days instead of plain worksheets, so I’m proud to present our vowel puzzles activity sheets. They’re sure to be a crowd pleaser. Try them out today!
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Animal Song
Oct 9th
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This song is a great beginning science song for children. Classifying animals – or just plain classifying anything – is a great study skill. It helps us compare and contrast and make connections between things. This is way more fun with animals than other stuff, but when they come around to classifying shapes and whatnot, you’ve built a foundation already.
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Story Elements Song
Oct 7th
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What are elements of a story? Setting, plot, characters, resolution, climax… these are all parts of a story that have to be taught. Along with worksheets and other activities, why not add this music to give your instruction a multi-modal approach?
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Reading Comprehension Song
Oct 4th
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Reading comprehension is a complicated thing. You have to understand figurative language, the author’s purpose, the vocabulary and writing styles within… It’s a complicated thing made easier by this song explaining the basics of reading comprehension. Enjoy!
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Context Clues Song
Oct 2nd
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We have songs for everything else, so why not for hunting out the meaning of unfamiliar words by looking at the surrounding text? It’s all here in have fun teaching’s context clues song. It’s bound to be a hit with teachers and students alike.
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Free Phonics Songs
Sep 27th
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It might seem like I’m jumping subjects lately, but songs is where we’re at. HFT has a ridiculous amount of free songs available. It takes a long time to talk about all of them, especially since they’re spread over so many subjects. This one, for instance, is about phonics. What will my next post be about? You’ll just have to come back and see.
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Subject and Predicate Song
Sep 18th
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It seems easy, but it’s sometimes hard to separate the subject from the predicate, especially when they start throwing in clauses or shifting sentence order. As long as students can at least find who or what is doing the action and then determine what the action is, they’ve got most of the battle won. Thankfully, this song reminds them of that point in a catchy tune.
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Noun Song
Sep 15th
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Nouns are not quite as fun to use as adjectives, but it’s important to know the place and function of every part of speech in english. They’re certainly cooler than pronouns, too. Those guys are just dull, even if they do save us time. None are as fun as interjections, though, are they?
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