The Teacher's Corner - Lesson Plans, Worksheets and Activities Classroom Jobs List - Teachers Love Lists Want a giant list of classroom jobs that you can have your students do? Here is a huge list of jobs you can give your elementary students! These jobs would work best for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, or second grade but you can have a lot of these or adjust them for older elementary students as well. Jobs are great because they build classroom community, give students a purpose and sense of belonging every day, AND they save you from doing a lot of busy work! Jobs should always save you time, not be more work – for tips, check out: How to Organize Classroom Jobs I personally love having a job for every student that they have for several weeks at a time so they can get really good at it. Okay, so here goes with the job list! 1. Real World Name: Tour Guide, Conductor Stands at the front of the line and leads the class wherever you go. 2. Real World Name: Secretary, Receptionist, Office Manager Answers the classroom phone. This is one of my favorite jobs! 3. Real World Name: Librarian 4.
New phonics test will do nothing to improve Australian children's literacy Minister Birmingham released a report today recommending that all Year 1 students in Australia complete a phonics test. The panel responsible for the report has recommended that Australia adopt the Year 1 phonics screening check that has been used in England since 2011. What is phonics? Phonics is the process of matching sounds to letters. Analytic phonics starts with taking a word that children know the meaning of, and then analysing it to see how the sounds in the word match the letters we see within the word. Synthetic phonics starts with letters which the children learn to match with sounds. Which phonics method is better? There is no evidence that one phonics approach is better than the other. All inquiries have concluded that whatever phonic instruction method is chosen, it should be one part of a suite of skills children should have when learning to read. What is the phonics test? The phonics test is based on synthetic phonics. Why are we introducing it? What does the research say?
Word Skills Board Game Words Skills is a fun game that is easy to play and can be used to review word skills such as indicating the beginning sound of a word, the ending sound of a word, middle sound of a word, rhymes, synonyms, and antonyms. It can be used as a stand alone board game or as a supplement for reviewing the 7 core phonics units at Lanternfish ESL (or any other similar phonics program). Why Word Skills? There are three boards to download depending on whether you want to include Spelling and Past Tense squares or not. List of Classroom Rules Establishing a set of classroom rules on your first day back to school will set the tone for a productive new school year. Pick 5-10 classroom rules from the big list below that would best fit your students. Write down your main classroom rules on a chart and hang the rules in a highly visible area of the classroom. Put the rules on your main bulletin board as a reminder of classroom expectations. Ready-made Classroom Rules Charts are also available.
Jolly Phonics – Jolly Learning A programme that grows with your children Our flagship programme, Jolly Phonics, teaches children to read and write using synthetic phonics, which is widely recognised as the most effective way to teach children to read and write in English. That was over 25 years ago. Since then our immense progress has been studied in numerous research projects, the results of which led to phonics becoming central to the UK curriculum. Today we are now used in over 100 countries worldwide. As the leading synthetic phonics publisher, and the most experienced, we offer a 7-year school programme that teaches not only phonics, but spelling, punctuation and grammar too. Click here to discover our brilliant range of brand new and refreshed resources for 2021! DfE Validation Response Emma Ince is the Deputy Head Teacher at Tudor Primary School in Suffolk, England. How Jolly Phonics works Alongside these skills children are also introduced to the main alternative spelling of vowels. Programme progression
abcteach: Printable Worksheets for Teachers, Common Core, Smart Board Teaching 1st Grade - 50 Tips, Tricks & Ideas First grade is an exciting time of transition for your little ones! To help you and your students have the best year ever, we’ve scoured our WeAreTeachers HELPLINE group on Facebook and the web for some of the best tips and ideas for teaching first grade. While it by no means covers every possible topic, we hope this list of gems will inspire you, whether you are a brand new teacher or a veteran. Ideas for First Days: 1. Source: Doodlebugs Teaching Seeing their names up on the wall will help students instantly feel at home, and the bright colors will create a festive mood in the classroom. 2. SOURCE: Good Choices Good Life If you’re teaching 1st grade, you have the honor of being one of the first teachers a child will meet! 3. Get the kids mixing and moving as they get to know one another. Ideas to Create your Classroom Community: 4. SOURCE: First Grade Fresh Morning Meeting is an engaging way to connect with your students at the beginning of each day. 5. 6. SOURCE: First Grade Wow 7. 8. 9.
Why Movement is Essential in Early Childhood With so few years under their belts, my 3- and 6-year-old daughters are still learning to inhabit their bodies. They are learning how to maneuver themselves physically, how to orient themselves in space. As Vanessa Durand, a pediatrician at St. Movement allows children to connect concepts to action and to learn through trial and error. Research has shown time and again that children need opportunities to move in class. Ben Mardell, a professor of early-childhood education at Lesley University and the project director of the Pedagogy of Play initiative at Harvard’s Project Zero, observes that even when adults do incorporate play into learning, they often do so in a way that restricts free movement and agency.