Teaching Tip: Making Connections

Minna and the Canine Club’s Teaching Tip: For the next several weeks, let’s focus on reading strategies that improve student reading. This week, the focus is MAKING CONNECTIONS! It is so important for kids to be able to make connections while they read....

Teaching Tip: Start a Book Club

Minna and the Canine Club’s Teaching Tip Tuesday: It is summer which means it is the perfect time to start a book club with your child! Even reluctant readers will enjoy picking out a book with family or friends, grabbing some book club snacks and digging in!...

Teaching Tip: Find a Book Series

Get your kids, especially reluctant readers, hooked on a series! If a child gets invested in a character, they will want to read more about them. This will lead them to checking out the second book and beyond! This tip works like a charm, and has not yet failed, even...
Teaching Tip: Christmas Writing

Teaching Tip: Christmas Writing

This time of year kids all over are a bit…squirrely. Everyone is excited for Christmas and not really thinking about school. BUT, “When I was Young in the Mountains” is one of our favorite books to read to kids at this time of year. It is a...

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