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		<title>Words They Need To Know</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A TRC Original, Words They Need To Know: A Book of K-3 Sight Word Activities by Sheron Brown and Sally Oppy, is intended for use by primary teachers, reading specialists, and classroom volunteers. This professional resource is easy to use, addressing the management of sight word activities and materials, as well as how to fit sight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personal Readers &#8211; A Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent some of my professional development time over the last couple of years studying how best to reach our ELL students. In our area, we have Hispanic and Russian/Ukranian populations. I don’t speak Spanish or Russian – I took German in high school against everyone’s recommendation, but I haven’t run into any students who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using The Tangram Alphabet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tangram Alphabet: Building Letters With Tangrams is a deceptively simple conceptual resource for teachers. It&#8217;s a quick read, and all the more valuable for the possibilities it offers students across the curriculum. If you&#8217;ve not used tangrams in your classroom before, they are pieces taken from a square; the pieces are called tans. The pieces fit together [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long Vowel / Short Vowel Lesson Plans</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Brooke</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[long short vowel review]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long short summer. Let&#8217;s ease into this and do some long and short vowel review. Sit back and relax. Get ready to hit &#8220;print&#8221; on your browser, because you&#8217;ll like having these ideas in your &#8220;vowels&#8221; file. Listed below, you&#8217;ll find some ideas to get you started with short and long vowel lessons. There are 26 letters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make Grammar a Laughing Matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teaching Resource Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a teacher, getting your students excited about grammar is likely to be one of the bigger challenges you will face. This is, in part, because it has developed an awful (if not undeserved) reputation over the years for being tedious and boring. But despite our preconceived notions on the subject, we all know that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Classroom Poetry Learning Centers: Poem of the Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently one of our Subscribers asked about setting up a Poem of the Week writing center for her 4th and 5th graders. Poetry is an important learning center in any K-8 classroom and a Poem of the Week center is an easy and fun way to get kids excited about rhyme, meter and lyrical prose. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Word Sorts in the Primary Grade Classroom</title>
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		<comments>http://www.trcabc.com/resources/teachers-corner/using-word-sorts-in-the-primary-grade-classroom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teaching Resource Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps no other classroom activity is more effective in teaching emerging literacy students than using word sorts to emphasize students&#8217; grasp of the meaning and relationships of words. An alternative to more traditional phonics and whole-word exercises, word sorts use cards with printed words on them, which students &#8216;sort&#8217; into groups. A simple, meaningful activity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction to Picture This Too!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 15:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teaching Resource Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author Shari Nielson-Dunn discusses the importance of picture sorts in helping early and transitional readers recognize short and long vowel patterns, spelling patterns and word sounds and patterns. Includes the introduction to Dr. Nielson-Dunn's book "Picture This Too!".]]></description>
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		<title>Implementing Literacy Centers in the Primary Classroom</title>
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		<comments>http://www.trcabc.com/resources/curriculum/implementing-literacy-centers-in-the-primary-classroom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teaching Resource Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Integrating literacy centers in today's primary grade classroom requires planning and forethought. In this informative article, primary grade educators will find new ideas and tools on implementing literacy centers in the K-5 classroom.]]></description>
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		<title>Implementing Literacy Centers in the Early Childhood Classroom</title>
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		<comments>http://www.trcabc.com/resources/curriculum/implementing-literacy-centers-in-the-early-childhood-classroom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teaching Resource Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Educators know the importance of early childhood literacy development. In this article, teachers will gain new insights and ideas on introducing literacy centers in the Pre-K and kindergarten classroom.]]></description>
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		<title>Literacy Centers in the Classroom</title>
		<link>http://www.trcabc.com/resources/curriculum/literacy-centers-in-the-classroom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trcabc.com/resources/curriculum/literacy-centers-in-the-classroom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teaching Resource Center</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Literacy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Literacy centers are a key part of today's early childhood and primary school curriculum. Teachers and educators will learn the basics of setting up and managing literacy centers in this research-based article!]]></description>
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		<title>Sight Words and Sentence Classroom Exercises</title>
		<link>http://www.trcabc.com/resources/curriculum/sight-words-and-sentence-classroom-exercises/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trcabc.com/resources/curriculum/sight-words-and-sentence-classroom-exercises/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teaching Resource Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is that a Verb or a Noun? Quite often, its difficult to teach the simple parts of sentence structure to a child. Color coding the various parts of the sentence has been proven to make that easier, allowing them to instantly recognize what type of word each part of the sentence actually is, and associating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Complete Dolch Word List</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teaching Resource Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Developed in 1948 by Edward William Dolch, Ph.D, the Dolch high frequency word list has held up amazingly well in teaching beginning reading. While you can find the Dolch words in various books, learning activity tutorials, early literacy lesson plans, flash cards, word puzzles and other forms, we have published the complete list below for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do We Have Leap Years?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.trcabc.com/resources/curriculum/why-do-we-have-leap-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teaching Resource Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 29th occurs only once every four years &#8211; &#8220;leap&#8221; years &#8211; but how and why did this practice develop? Throughout history, cultures around the world have observed a relationship between celestial events and the cycle of life. This relationship is most notable in terms of seasons. Each spring, for example, the sun passes over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting Facts about George Washington</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teaching Resource Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To most of us, the name George Washington conjures up images of a handsome and gallant soldier crossing the Delaware River while leading his men bravely through the perils of revolution. Later, we know him to be a selfless leader, who led his country into democracy as our first president, only to step down after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Learning Sight Words</title>
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		<comments>http://www.trcabc.com/resources/curriculum/the-importance-of-learning-sight-words/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teaching Resource Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading is all about constructing meaning from text. The meaning is derived from what readers bring to the text as well as what they discern from the text.&#160; That meaning is dependent on the rapid, automatic, and effortless recognition of words. According to Patricia Cunningham in Phonics They Use, &#8220;In order to read and write [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making it Fun to Learn the Alphabet Letters</title>
		<link>http://www.trcabc.com/resources/parents-corner/making-it-fun-to-learn-the-alphabet-letters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trcabc.com/resources/parents-corner/making-it-fun-to-learn-the-alphabet-letters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teaching Resource Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the parent of a preschooler, you understand the importance of helping your child master the letters of the alphabet before they reach grade school age. As any first grade teacher can tell you, children who enter school with a solid understanding of the alphabet are apt to learn to read faster, and can quickly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Developing Early Literacy</title>
		<link>http://www.trcabc.com/resources/curriculum/developing-early-literacy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trcabc.com/resources/curriculum/developing-early-literacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teaching Resource Center</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps no early learning skill is more important than reading. Kids&#8217; self esteem and sense of accomplishment from learning to read is a key milestone in early childhood development! There has been plenty written about how important it is to read to children beginning at an early age, storytelling, and games involving rhyming. Learning to [...]]]></description>
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