Teaching Tips
Teaching Tip for FEBRUARY 2012
Use assessment information to diagnose problems and remediate accurately. ...
Teaching Tip for January 2012
A fun way to practice colors and stay fit! ...
Teaching Tip for Dec 2011
Dr. Kirp presents his ideas for school success. ...
Teaching Tip for November, 2011
Get Parents Involved ...
Teaching Tip for October, 2011
Important to teach sounds and formations together ...
Teaching Tip for September 2011
Create an Itchy's Library. ...
Teaching Tip for July, 2011
Get your parents on-side early in the year ...
Teaching Tip for Blending
Another tip to help children with blending sounds into words. ...
Teaching Tip for June 2011
How to bridge the gap between knowing the sounds and applying them in beginning blending skills. ...
Teaching Tip for Rhyme Time
A child's ability to rhyme directly relates to success with reading. ...
Teaching Tip for Manipulatives for Itchy's Alphabet
A hands-on for almost every Itchy cue! ...
Teaching Tip for March, 2011
Bring a picture to your meetings! ...
Teaching Tip for Feb 2011
Do you have children who start their letters from the bottom? Here's an idea to break that habit. ...
Teaching Tip for JAN 2011
More reasons why letter names are confusing ...
Teaching Tip for Dec. 2010
Let's correct number reversals ...
Teaching Tip for Listening for Initial Blends
I used to find that children consistently struggled when spelling words containing initial consonant blends. They would ...
Teaching Tip for October, 2010
With the introduction of our Preschool Program last month, I wanted to address the issue of expectations. My goal, at ...
Teaching Tip for September, 2010
I was at a conference the other day and had a chance to look at some of the Wintergreen (Lakeshore in the US) materials ...
Teaching Tip for August 2010
What a great idea - a New (School) Year's Resolution. Although some ofthe ideas are more towards high-school, ...
Teaching Tip for July 2010
Sorry this month's tip is a little late getting posted- I snuck away to Mexico for 11 days with a couple of ...
Teaching Tip for June 2010
Had a customer ask me recently about whether I was planning to add a 'wh' card to the Phonics Sound Cards set. ...
Teaching Tip for More Drill and Practice Ideas
Another great drill and practice activity is to dictate consonant-vowel-consonant words for children to spell. I like to ...
Teaching Tip for April 2010
This is a great time of the year to bring out the games for drill and practice. One of ...
Teaching Tip for Oct, Nov, Dec '09
Our tip this term focuses on phonological awareness (PA) skills. Research shows that children with strong PA skills ...
Teaching Tip for July, Aug, Sept '09
Many of you are already looking at preparations for the upcoming year. I thought this would be a good time to discuss ...
Teaching Tip for July, Aug, Sept '09
Many of you are already looking at preparations for the upcoming year. I thought this would be a good time to discuss ...
Teaching Tip for April, May, June '09
I often get asked how long I recommend spending on each letter. There isn’t a definitive answer to this – ...
Teaching Tip for Oct, Nov, Dec '08
I often get asked how long I recommend spending on each letter. There isn’t a definitive answer to this – ...
Teaching Tip for July '08
I know I have mentioned this topic in previous tips, but thought, as a new school year approaches for most, it was a ...
Teaching Tip for April, May, June '08
At my presentations, I often give attendees a homework assignment - go back and look through your alphabet books and ...
Teaching Tip for January, February, March '08
The sound for the letter 'r' is probably one of the trickiest to enunciate, but it is important that we say it correctly ...
Teaching Tip for Oct, Nov, Dec '07
Check your alphabet books!! Many of the alphabet books out there are beautiful picture books but poor phonics books. Her ...
Teaching Tip for July, August, September '07
Even though most of us are enjoying a well earned summer break, many teachers are already giving thought to the new ...
Teaching Tip for April, May '07
As the year end approaches, it is time to start thinking about assessments. Be sure you have assessed your students for ...
Teaching Tip for January, February, March '07
We are going to continue discussing some of the position-in-space words that can cause confusion for children when print ...
Teaching Tip for October, November, December '06
We have been working on letter formations with our Grade 1 and 2 students this month and I have noticed many of our ...
Teaching Tip for June, July, August '06
My apologies for those of you looking for the April/May/June tip. I did one up but must not have saved it. So, here it ...
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