Teaching Kids to Spell for Dummies
Chapter One
Thinking Like a Spelling Teacher
In This Chapter
* Introducing the cornerstones of good teaching
* Getting ready, getting set
* Making an early start
* Busting through the jargon
Great teachers take care of all kinds of kids. They climb aloft to reach
the highly strung, fix their acts for the divas, and tread warily around
kids who rule their parents with iron fists. They seem to have every kind of
book and brainstorm at their fingertips and manage to serve it all up with a
generous dollop of Zen. What's their thing? Can anyone else get some of it?
Can others do effective work without piercing their tongues and going back
to college to learn it? Of course! This book piles you up with easy, practical
strategies and awfully shrewd insights. Although you may not get the whole
Zen thing, and, of course, you miss out on tongue piercing, you nevertheless
get a down-to-earth spelling plan. And to add to all that, you get quick yet
constructive stuff to do while chugging the kids off to soccer or coercing a
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