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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ For those of you that are fans of our Hidden Sight Words worksheets, we have some free samples for you to try out that go along with two new products: our Hidden CVC Words Worksheets , and our new I Spy CVC Easy Reader fold and print books!   These "I Spy CVC Words" books are a GREAT way to teach little ones to focus on comprehension, rather than just "word calling."  Read on to find out more! First, we took our Hidden Si...

Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ I bet most teachers already know that informational print is an important component of the Common Core State Standards for Language Arts.  Children are supposed to begin developing the skills they need to read and understand informational texts as early as Kindergarten- maybe even sooner!  But since the typical beginning reader's skills and vocabulary in print are usually quite limited, how can we help children begin to tackle ...

Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ Hello! This week, I would like to tell you more about how I used "ThinkMarks" to help increase my students' comprehension and critical thinking skills in fiction texts.  I have a free download of my "ThinkMark Charts" for fiction in color and black and white ! As some of you may remember, I gave a brief overview of using ThinkMarks in the classroom a few weeks ago in my blog post on January 17, 2014 .  Today I will give ...

Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ Hello!  Today I would like to tell you a little bit about how you can help kids improve their reading comprehension in general, and do better on AR (Accelerated Reader) quizzes if they have to take them!  If you're are not familiar with Accelerated Reader, AR (for short) is an online reading comprehension quiz program that many schools use to motivate children to read more, with the goal of at least 85% comprehension as an ave...

Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ Do your students struggle with the concept of "nonsense words?"  Teaching nonsense words can be a a little bit tricky, but when you take it step by step, it's really not much harder than any other skill.  In this post, I'll explain exactly how to teach nonsense words, and I'll also explain WHY it's important to teach them- and basically, it has to do with comprehension and phonics.  They really can be beneficial to st...