“brain breaks”
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- Mar 2026
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hechingerreport.org hechingerreport.org
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YouTube read a book to the class, instead of their teacher.
In our room, it is almost impossible to pass out snack have them at table spots and the teacher read a book. We use storylineonline which is an amazing resource to listen to read alouds.
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“Screen time, when it’s purposeful, can augment the work of the teacher and it can be wonderfully complementary,”
I am thinking of platforms like Lexia and Dream box which we utilize in the school that I am in.
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But once school started, Benoist’s daughter suddenly knew jingles from diaper and car commercials, which Benoist and her husband determined were playing before YouTube videos at school.
sometimes teachers can not stop the ads. Not all Youtube videos are bad.
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After that, they only allowed occasional episodes of kids’ shows like “Bluey” or “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood.”
We watch these shows in the morning as kids are walking in with their breakfast.
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New York City, receive an iPad when they start school.
Most schools now days have Ipads in rooms.
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www.edutopia.org www.edutopia.org
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Family Income Can Increase Unfairness in Homework Assignments
Cell phones can become a distraction but also can be a good thing as well.
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High school students rarely love homework, but giving them a role in designing it can help them see its value.
True statement. I hated homework and I still do but when I am able to design my own or follow directions but not have the same assignment as everyone else, I am okay.
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scores found that high school students who spent at least an hour each day on math homework significantly outperformed their peers who did none.
WOW!!!
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researchers found that while the academic impact of homework for students in grades 1–4 is indeed limited—with a small effect size of 0.21—it grows steadily through upper elementary school and into high school, rising by 95 percent for grades 5–8 and 129 percent for grades 9–12, respectively.
Back in October, this is something we talked about as teachers
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A Significant Boost for Older Students, a Foundation for Younger Ones
This chart is interesting for me to look at.
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Daily at-home reading, research shows, can deliver meaningful, long-lasting benefits to literacy.
I love this. I always want kids to try to read at home.
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where positive and negative effects coincide,
This is a very true statement especially in the placement that I am at. Some teacher give homework and others do not because of the negative effects for those students.
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www.wglt.org www.wglt.org
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gets to have the hedgehog at their desk.”
We do Heggerty Hero!
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“It’s 10 minutes a day, and it really just builds that phonemic awareness and phonic skills,” said Thompson.
I also love having Heggerty
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hands-on lessons
TRUE STATEMENT
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third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade should see less holes in kids' phonics because we've explicitly taught all of the sounds in K through two,” said Heinonen.
I was a long term sub in Third Grade and those students forgot how to write. Hopefully, this will help close the gaps.
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First grade is when students can put those sounds together into short words and understand more about what sounds certain letters make together.
Not very many people understand this. They want the kids to be able to write complete sentences by this grade.
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107 elementary staff from each of the 16 elementary schools in the district have used UFLI in their classrooms already.
This is not SFSD but in SFSD ALL Kindergarten and First grade teachers teach UFLI.
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These include phonological awareness, word recognition, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, oracy and writing.
These are matter when teaching how to read.
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But our schools have book rooms with a variety of resources for that small group differentiation.”
Having a book room has been a life saver for me!
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This consists of an initial lesson from the teacher, followed by independent work time, then capped off with students sharing what they learned and how they applied the initial lesson.
This is a worry for the grade I am student teaching in. The teachers are already talking about what it could look like year. Currently we use Being A Reader and have 3 teachers running groups.
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UFLI introduces well over 100 new sight words over the course of a school year between kindergarten and second grade.
This has been a game changer for the students in the school I am student teaching in. The students are actually using the sight words to help them spell. It also breaks it down into nice easy steps.
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