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Kid Friendly Websites. ICDL - International Children's Digital Library. Six Scaffolding Strategies to Use with Your Students. What’s the opposite of scaffolding a lesson? Saying to students, “Read this nine-page science article, write a detailed essay on the topic it explores, and turn it in by Wednesday.” Yikes! No safety net, no parachute—they’re just left to their own devices. Let’s start by agreeing that scaffolding a lesson and differentiating instruction are two different things. Scaffolding is breaking up the learning into chunks and providing a tool, or structure, with each chunk. When scaffolding reading, for example, you might preview the text and discuss key vocabulary, or chunk the text and then read and discuss as you go.

With differentiation, you might give a child an entirely different piece of text to read, or shorten the text or alter it, or modify the writing assignment that follows. Simply put, scaffolding is what you do first with kids. Scaffolding and differentiation do have something in common, though. So let’s get to some scaffolding strategies you may or may not have tried yet. 1. 2. 3. iPad for Teaching & Learning. ClassTools.net: Create interactive flash tools / games for education. Untitled. Free Pages. I am passionate about homeschooling and really enjoy my homeschool journey with my girls! Here are my notebook pages, minibooks and lapbook projects, handwriting charts and booklets, organizational tips and ideas … that I would love to share with you. You are welcome to download these pages freely for your own personal use. I humbly ask that you please share the link to my site rather than give the files away. :) MathsSouth African Money I’d love to hear from you ~ if you have enjoyed a download, need advice or just wish to chat to me, please feel free to write on the contact form on my About Me page.

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Free Printable First Grade Worksheets. Welcome to tlsbooks.com. This page includes first grade worksheets related to reading, phonics, rhyming words, and critical thinking skills. These worksheets are great for classroom or home use and you may print as many as you like. First grade is an exciting adventure for students. This may be the first time they are in school for a full day, the first time they read an entire book, or the first time they write a story.

You can help your students by encouraging them to read independently as well as continuing to read together. This may be the appropriate time to provide your students with their own writing journal. They can write about their friends, favorite video game, favorite moview, or the fun weekend they had. It is our hope that the worksheets here will be an extension to the learning done in first grade. Depending on your child's abilities, you may wish to review our kindergarten worksheets and second grade worksheets for additional practice. Find us on Google+ Rhyming Worksheets. Study Skills - How to Study. Teacher Tools & Templates - Venn Diagram. Fun Free Stuff to Print. What’s Here Part of maintaining a well-run classroom is having lots of kid-friendly learning tools, such as centers, manipulatives, flashcards, pocket chart activities, and so on to make lessons interesting and interactive. Unfortunately, filling your classroom with these types of things can be expensive and searching for free stuff on the internet is time-consuming.

So, I’ve collected a bunch of incredible sites with FREE printables of all sorts–NOT just worksheets! Most of the printables are in Word form, meaning you can change them as you see fit, but all that’s really needed is to print and use! Please leave a comment at the bottom of the page if any links no longer work, or to add your own ideas. Sites with Too Many Resources to Specify The Virtual Vine has all printables listed on one page for quick and easy reference. Carl’s Corner is probably THE BEST site for free primary literacy printables on the ‘net right now. You can see more great resources I recommend on Now What? Meacham Mini Offices. My students use mini office dividers during writing, centers, science, math, and any many other times a divider might be handy.

Family Words: Color Words : (2008 - 2009) (2009 - 2010) Shapes: ABC Chart and Star Words : Days of Week : Months: Student Names : (2008 - 2009) (2009 - 2010) Tally Marks, Fingers, Numbers, and Numerals: Labels for EARTH, STATE, COUNTRY, COINS, and BIRTHDAY (2009 - 2010) Hand Cut Outs 100s Chart Sticker Number Line Tape Planet Earth Notepad Handwriting Tape U.S.A. Shape Words: Money Chart: Color Words: Days of Week: Word Wall Words: Months of Year: ABC & Blends Charts: Left and Right Words: Tally Marks, Fingers, Numerals, and Numbers: ABC Chart: ABC Tape Numbers Tape Coin Stickers Position three manila folders so that you have four sections.

Print a copy of all your documents and have them ready. Have a set of all your purchased items that will be added to the folder ready. Make a "mock" Mini Office. Once you have figured out where everything goes, secure them in place. Teacher Discussions, Blogs, Chat, Social Networking for teachers - ProTeacher Community - Ideas for Teaching, Resources for Lesson Plans, and Activities for Unit Planning.

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