Hands-on Activities!

Promote speaking, listening, reading, and writing in your classroom! This online course will ensure you are vertically aligned and give you strategies to use in your classroom right away to help your students to be avid readers and writers!

These TEKS aligned strategies will ensure that your K-2 students will be ready for STAAR by the time they get to 3rd grade!

Who is this course for?

This course is for Kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade teachers, SpEd teachers, ESL teachers, curriculum coaches, and administrators!

Increase Comprehension!

Learn how to write TEKS-based genre-specific questions for read aloud books for your grade level in this course!

Text Evidence!

Learn how students can prove their answer by pointing or recalling parts of the book. Start this orally and then transition into writing it!

Writing Sentences!

Learn how students can use turn and talk to write short constructed responses by answering a question in a complete sentence and giving proof from the passage!

Kinder-2nd Grade Reading & Writing Online Course Outline:


  Introduction/Welcome - Start here!
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  Lesson 1: Saying and Writing Complete Sentences
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  Lesson 2: 4-Squares for Increased Comprehension
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  Lesson 3: Restate & Answer Questions (Say it/Write it)
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  Lesson 4: SCRs - Short Constructed Responses (Orally & Written)
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  Lesson 5: TEKS & Lesson Ideas for Kinder, 1st, and 2nd Grade
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  Lesson 6: Practice Writing Questions & SCRs with Read Aloud Books
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  Lesson 7: Conferencing & Non-Negotiables
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Educational Consultant

I travel to districts all over Texas to deliver professional development for language arts teachers of grades K-10. I created online courses, so that I can reach everyone, no matter where YOU live. I also create hands-on colorful high-rigor curriculum resources aligned to the TEKS that support vertical alignment. I am here to support YOU!

Reach out if you have any questions:

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