Friday, March 15, 2019

Study Tools to Give a First Grader

When I left the classroom six years ago, I decided to share some of the resources and lesson plans I created on Teachers Pay Teachers to bring in a little income. In order for this to be successful, I knew I needed multiple places where I could share those resources with other educators in the English/Language Arts world. I decided to start a teacher blog, a Pinterest account dedicated just for the ELA classroom, and I recently joined the "teachers of Instagram" world. You can find all of that (if you want) by following this link.

The reason I'm sharing all of this is because there is so much I want to write here that is unrelated to the world of teaching, but also about our personal life. I'm still not sure how to schedule my time to make that a possibility (ha, or even if that is possible). Today's topic that I shared on my teacher blog is one I felt might benefit many of you homeschool teacher-moms and moms who desire to teach your children how to read God's Word, so I decided to share it in two places. Goodness, that sounds ridiculous, but I'm just not sure how to accomplish this just yet... so bear with me... in the meantime, today's topic is this:

Follow this link to read those tools: https://rafikey.blogspot.com/2019/03/study-tools-to-give-first-grader.html
Check it out because it is the precursor to sharing my Psalm Fluency Notebook that helps my first grader, who has mastered phonics, move from phonics to fluency, and then from fluency to analysis, and analysis to critical writing. One step builds upon another for one outcome: a life-long learner who lives and works wisely in God's kingdom - seeing the world from their Creator's lens, not a self-centered one.