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Acclimate ELLs to Autumn with a Linky Party

I hope I do not disappoint anyone but I am going to postpone my third and final post about behavior management for older students until next week — please come back next Monday to find out what my favorite tactic is for middle school students.  Instead, since it’s the beginning

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Excelerating ELL Education: A New Linky Party

It shouldn’t come as a surprise to learn that, as a language teacher, I love words.  I love reading them and I love writing them.  However, that is not the case with many students.  In fact, most of the ELLs I taught disliked reading—and rarely did it for pleasure unless

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Building Back To School: My Favorite Writing Journal

Well, this is the final Building Back to School post in #TeacherMom’s blog hop.  Today I am going to write about a writing tool that I found indispensable in my teaching. (This post contains affiliate links.  That means that I make a small commission if you purchase any of the

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Anticipating the First Day Back to School

I know that in many places in the U.S., school has already started but today is the day teachers in my former school district in Massachusetts go back to school.  There is one in-service day of meetings and getting classrooms ready—though most teachers have already spent at least a week

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Building Back to School Classroom Tools: 2 Essential Items

I’m continuing to blog about education tools as part of #Teachermom’s Building Back To School blog series for August.  There are two classroom tools I want to discuss today which made teaching my ELLs much easier. (This post contains affiliate links.  That means that I make a small commission if

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6 Steps for Starting a Homework Program

A comment by a reader last week gave me the idea for today’s blog post, which is about starting a homework program for students.  Today I’ll write about laying the groundwork for such a program and in future posts, I’ll write about how to implement it and make it a

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Building Back to School Tools: 4 Ideas for Teachers

For the next few weeks, I’ll be linking up with #TeacherMom and her Building Back to School series of helpful tools for classroom teachers. Read the first post by #TeacherMom HERE Today, I’m going to write about four essential tools that I used every year when I was teaching ESL

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