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Weekly Tips for Teachers

Issue 356: May 21, 2007

This Week’s Theme: Phonics

[photo: child pointing at phonic sounds in workbook]

Teacher Resources

[photo: teacher supplies in boxes]

Teaching Tip: Reading Garden K–8

By: Lynda O’Brien, Educator/Administrator

“Have students write reading summaries on a basket type coffee filters. Include the story or book title and author’s name. Have the students arrange and glue the filters on a poster board with the sides sticking out from the poster board. These will become the flowers. Students can then use assorted art supplies to make stems, leaves, backgrounds, etc. Display each as a composite garden or as individual gardens that adorn you classroom.This will become your Reading Garden.”

This Week in History

  • 1809: Mary Kies is the first woman issued a US patent (weaving straw).
  • 1851: Linus Yale patents the Yale-lock.

Teacher Inspiration and Humor

[photo: woman reading to a child by the ocean]

Inspiring Quote

“An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.”
—Orson Welles

Jokes You Can Tell in Class

A 3-year-old was diligently pounding away on her father’s word processor. She told him she was writing a story.

“What’s it about?’ he asked.

“I don’t know,” she replied, “I can’t read.”

On the Web

[photo: colorful pens in an open book]

Online Teacher’s Poll

“Should home-schooling parents be required to have teaching credentials?”

Best of the Web

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Other materials and resources:

Our resource of the week is the concept-web generator.

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