by Alice Nine | Indexed, Literacy |
Some have asked for my original Scope and Sequence — the one I developed to use when I wrote the Johnny Can Spell and Write Lesson Planner Series. Here it is: Alice-Nine_Scope-Sequence
by Alice Nine | Literacy |
Phonics : Question No 17-0207. 1. I received an email from a teacher. 2. I sent a brief reply. 3. She responded with more questions. 4. I wrote a blog post (below). ...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Celebrate This Week : January 14, 2017. This week I celebrate the past and the present in my “professional development life” Backstory. For more than twenty years, I have provided professional development to schools across the country. The bulk of this PD...
by Alice Nine | In My Classroom, Literacy |
Students often use the wrong homophone, to or too instead of two. Or they misspell it, tow being the most common misspelling. Several things make this misspelling likely to happen. The w is silent The consonant team tw is not very common The vowel team ow is common,...
by Alice Nine | For Fun, In My Classroom, Literacy |
Materials: 26 colored craft sticks, 6 inches by 3/4 inch. 18-inch felt chalkboard eraser (of course, one that’s never been used to clean boards) a Sharpie marker a pair of old scissors that are strong enough to cut the craft sticks Directions to make With a pair...
by Alice Nine | In My Classroom, Literacy |
Chameleons. Fascinating creatures, changing their color based on surroundings. Words are sorta, kinda, a little bit like that, changing their spelling or pronunciation just a bit based on their sentence surroundings. Here is an example. She didn’t have much hope...
