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Teaching on a Budget: Resources and Lesson Tips for Your Classroom

by WAT Staff on 03-28-2011 12:04 PM

 

 

We spoke to Imelda O'Neill and Connie Ramsey who have over 50 years combined teaching experience. Imelda and Connie currently focus on literacy and response to intervention, but over the years they've taught a wide variety of classes and ages. Take a listen as these two teachers get real, with fantastic tips and ideas for teaching with limited resources and funding. You'll even get some great advice on how to help struggling readers!

 

This WATcast is sponsored by Learning A-Z.

 

Discussed in this WATcast:

  • Reading A-Z: Offers thousands of printable teacher materials to teach leveled reading, phonemic awareness, reading comprehension, reading fluency, alphabet, and vocabulary. 
  • Raz Kids: Students can practice reading to improve reading comprehension and reading fluency anywhere with Internet access.
  • Reading Counts: Technology-based program creates a personalized and engaging learning environment that ensures independent reading accountability.
  • Book It Program: Find many program enhancements including tracking sheets, awards, calendars and tips.
  • Core Reading Programs: Advisor at all levels of K–12 education, working collaboratively with educators to support literacy and math achievement growth for all students.
  • State Education websites
  • Reallygreatreading.com: Make assessment and grouping efficient and accurate and make reading instruction interactive, explicit, structured, and multisensory.
  • AIMSweb.com: A benchmark and progress monitoring system based on direct, frequent and continuous student assessment.
  • DIBELS.org: Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) are a set of procedures and measures for assessing the acquisition of early literacy skills from kindergarten through sixth grade.
  • International Reading Association: A nonprofit, global network of individuals and institutions committed to worldwide literacy