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Elaine Shobert
May 5, 2020
Finding Comfort in the Familiar
There’s comfort in the familiar: familiar faces, familiar places, familiar experiences. The challenge to find familiar during this period...
Pam Koutrakos
Apr 6, 2020
Word Study At Home: Resources, Printables, Video Lessons, and Ideas for Joyful Word Exploring
Craving low-prep, playful, and inherently flexible ways to continue learning at home? Word exploring may be your answer! Investigating...
Pam Koutrakos
Oct 29, 2018
Introducing… Word Study That Sticks! (A Sneak Peek and a Giveaway)
When I was growing up, there was no word study in schools. We had phonics, and then spelling, and then word of the day. My classmates and...
Pam Koutrakos
Feb 1, 2017
How Do I Assess Students in Word Study?
For most of my life (as a student and as a teacher), word study assessments were a weekly spelling test. As a student, I numbered down...
Pam Koutrakos
Dec 9, 2016
How can I bring a sense of DISCOVERY to word study?
“The important thing is to not stop questioning: curiosity has its own reason for existing.” -Albert Einstein I am an optimist......
Pam Koutrakos
Nov 20, 2016
How might I schedule MY time during word study to meet the needs of all students?
I find tremendous value and flexibility in the structure of workshop. Instruction across subjects and throughout my day has a tendency...
Pam Koutrakos
Nov 5, 2016
What Do Our Word Study Notebooks Look Like?
Many teachers I know (myself included) keep their own reading and writing notebooks. We want to show students that we live this work...
Pam Koutrakos
Oct 22, 2016
What is Word Study?
“Words mean more than is set down on paper. It takes human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.” -Maya Angelou Word study is a hot...
