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Reading Lesson Plans Encourage a Love of Reading in Children

Reading is a great pleasure for many people and the goal in reading lesson plans is to try and encourage that love in children. Reading lesson plans help a student to understand the techniques involved in writing and the interpretations that can be found in words. (Full Article)

Kindergarten Lesson Plans Help Children Adjust with School Routine

Kindergarten is the first organized grade level in most school board systems. 
The development of kindergarten lesson plans often deals with helping the children adjust to the routine of being in class and acquiring the skills they will need in future years to learn with. (Full Article)

Kindergarten Lesson Plans Welcome all Children

Little children react differently to the idea of starting school and leaving mom’s skirts everyday. Kindergarten lesson plans need to welcome all children and help them to adjust to this new routine and life for them. (Full Article)

Kindergarten Lesson Plans Provide the Basics of Structured Learning

There is nothing more endearing than seeing the serious little faces of a graduating kindergarten class. They will have survived the first year of their kindergarten lesson plan and be ready for more education of a more serious nature. (Full Articles)

Sticky Grammar Situations

With the advent of electronic word-processing and spellchecker programs, many people just presume that simply by running spellchecker all of their grammar errors will be caught and corrected. This is simply not so. Spellchecker programs often include some grammar checking, but no man-made program can catch all the innuendoes of the English language. (Full Article)

Good Reasons Why You Can't Rely on Your Spellchecker

If you aren’t using your spellchecker, then you should get a big black magic marker and a 3 x 3 sticky note and make this note to yourself, “RUN SPELLCHECKER,” and stick the note on your computer monitor (aren’t all computer monitors littered with sticky notes, like mine?). (Full Article)

Creating Effective Teaching Strategies

Educators all across North America are seeking new effective teaching strategies that are more responsive to students' needs. No longer focusing on just the three R's, such as reading lesson plans, educators are looking for teaching strategies that educate students on how to assume future roles in society. (Full Article)

Getting to Know You

One item to add to your list of effective teaching strategies is "getting to know you". (Full Article)

How to be a More Persuasive Speaker: Ten Tips from the Real World

Busy teachers do not have the time to learn the intricate delivery skills and "glitz" of the professional public speaker. What they need is a "shortcut system" that enables the presenter to package his or her substantive knowledge so it can be delivered in an interesting, engaging manner. (Full Article)

Use Web Sites like Scholastic to Develop Teaching Strategies

Scholastic was slow to join the Internet revolution, but became high-tech just in time to help teachers all over the country develop reading lesson plans. Scholastic.com committed an unprecedented $22 million in an effort to make the Web work, and they have succeeded. (Full Article)

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