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              5 Ways to Make Summer Planning Easier
            
			            By Jonathan LeMaster on June 8, 2015        
 
This summer, consider using LiteracyTA’s tools and resources to help you plan for the 2015-2016 school year. As a classroom teacher, I see the value in creating a lesson for each of my texts with the Lesson Planner. My lessons will be standard based, interactive, focused on reading, speaking, and writing skills, and built on best teaching practices.
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              10 Things to Celebrate 
            
			            By Jonathan LeMaster on June 2, 2015        
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Another school year is coming to an end. Congratulations to all of you! This is the time of year when we wonder if we did enough, taught the right things to prepare our students, and begin thinking about our upcoming vacations and teaching assignments next year. Spoiler alert: We have to do this all over again next school year. But we love our jobs and we love our students.
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              Get Kids to Soar with Our New 2-3 Teacher Guide
            
			            By Jonathan LeMaster on May 11, 2015        
 
Great news! Our next teacher guide is complete. We now have reading and writing teacher guides for K-1 and 2-3.
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              Opening Traditions: Promoting Positive Classroom Culture
            
			            By Jonathan LeMaster on May 5, 2015        
 
Establishing routines for our students is critical to their success. When students have established learning routines, they can be more self-directed, efficient with their time, and focus on what I want them to learn without the distractions of changing expectations and procedures. In my experience, the first five minutes is the most important time to establish learning routines.
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              5 Essential Partner Routines
            
			            By Jonathan LeMaster on April 27, 2015        
 
We have identified a few powerful teaching strategies to help establish routines and expectations for partner work in an elementary classroom. Even if you teach older students, these routines can be used to add structure and establish expectations. Model your expectations early and often and find ways to incorporate collaborative activities whenever possible.
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