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Common Core Spotlight: New Rubric Evaluation Charts
by Family Learning Depot
As Common Core Standards become more prevalent in your class, the greater the need there is to ensure that students are grasping the necessary skill elements. But how do you assess their competency of each required standard? With our new rubric charts. In addition to new math and ELA worksheets, abcteach is proud to launch a series of rubric evaluation charts to help you assess how well your students are mastering their Common Core skills.
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A Creative Approach to Food Allergies and Trick-or-Treating
by Kellie Rowden-Racette
Ever notice how many kids who are in feeding therapy also have food allergies? . With Halloween just around the corner, I’m encountering parents in my practice who are scared to let their foo...
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A Tool to Help Children Ask for Help
by Tatyana Elleseff
I’ve created a “Strategies of Asking for Help” chart for my clients who are verbal but have mild cognitive impairment (IQ 70+) or have average cognition. I keep this chart in the child’s line of vi...
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The School Cafeteria: Hurry Up and EAT!
by Melanie Potuck
Most parents tell me that their elementary school child has 20 to 25 minutes to enter the school cafeteria, search for her lunchbox buried in a portable tub, find a place to sit, open all t...
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How Can You Tell if Childhood Stuttering is the Real Deal?
by Craig Coleman
One of the more challenging clinical decisions that confront speech-language pathologists is what to do with a young child who stutters. Do we recommend intervention? Do we wait and see if t...
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Eye on Curriculum: French
by Family Learning Depot
Welcome to another edition of the Eye on Curriculum blog series. Last week we toured our Spanish section , highlighting key topics and categories for learning the language and various aspects of Hispanic culture. This week’s Eye is focusing on another foreign language section: French. As with its Spanish counterpart, our French Language Section is an abundance of worksheets, games, activities, and interactives that help students of all ages to learn French, French history, and cultural traditions of francophone countries.
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Why Suspected Childhood Apraxia of Speech Requires Careful Assessment
by Tatyana Elleseff
This condition needs to be diagnosed by an SLP. In fact, due to the disorder's complexity, it is strongly recommended that parents seek an assessment by an SLP specializing in assessment and treatm...
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Eye on Curriculum: Everyday Interactives
by Family Learning Depot
This month’s Eye on Curriculum series has taken a walk through special highlights from our comprehensive Interactive library . We kicked things off with a Back to School theme , journeyed into popular SMART Notebook and Promethean Flipchart files , then lastly, explored our exciting new Math Magician series .
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Eye on Curriculum: Touring Interactives
by Family Learning Depot
If you are a teacher or parent, don’t be shy, and be sure to check out all of abcteach’s interactive materials. There are many different kinds of interactive whiteboards and software. On abcteach, we offer both SMART Board® and Promethean ActivInspire® materials. You don’t have to have fancy equipment or an expensive tablet in order to ensure a hands-on learning experience.
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Eye on Curriculum: Languages
by Family Learning Depot
September is fully underway, which means our Eye on Curriculum blog series has switched focus to another featured section: Foreign Language . With students coming from a variety of ethnic backgrounds and our classrooms becoming more diverse, there has never been a more opportune time to incorporate new languages and cultural traditions into your lesson plans.
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Tricks to Take the Pain Out of Writing Treatment Goals
by Irene Torres
When writing goals keep in mind that goals are supposed to be SMART: specific, measureable, attainable, relevant and timely. A pet peeve of mine are goals that say “the client will improve his rece...
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Guest Blog Post - I Say Tomato, You Say Tomate
by Family Learning Depot
Last week I wrote a blog post called The Effect of Different Languages on Toddler Speech & Language Development. . In that post I talked about how it is okay for your toddler to learn another...
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