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About Me
- Andrea Crawford
- A wife, a mom, a reading specialist ~ what a life! I enjoy my job as a reading specialist and love sharing my work with all of you! I have taught in third and fourth grade classrooms and am thrilled to share my love of reading with students who need it the most! Come along with me as we weave literacy and life together!
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- interdisciplinary teaching
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- motivation
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- phonological awareness
- picture books
- Picture Walks
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- planning
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- plot
- poem in your pocket day
- Poem of the Week
- poetry
- poetry ideas for students
- pre-reading
- predictions
- preschool
- presidents
- prior knowledge
- Professional Reading
- progress monitoring
- Project Based Learning
- prompting for monitoring
- punctuation
- Q-chart
- questioning
- RAN Strategy
- read aloud
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- reader's theater
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- Reading in Room 11
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- reading logs
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- Reading Toward the Stars
- Reading Wellness
- Reciprocal Teaching
- research
- Retelling
- rhymes
- Royal Court
- RTI
- Rubrics
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- science
- SEI
- self-monitoring during reading
- sentence frames
- Setting
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- Sight Words
- Similes
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- small group
- snow unit
- Snowflake Bentley
- social studies
- Songs
- Sound Muncher
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- spring
- SQ3R
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- star wars
- Stoplight Writing
- Story Impressions
- story map
- storytelling
- struggling readers
- Student Engagement
- student-led classroom
- summarizing
- Summer Blog Party
- summer literacy intervention
- summer reading
- Summer Reading Activities
- Summer Reading by Richard Allington
- summer reading loss
- syllables
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- Tanny McGregor
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- text complexity
- text evidence
- text features
- text gradients
- Text Structures
- thanksgiving books for kids
- thanksgiving books for read alouds
- The Apple Pie That Papa Baked
- the book whisperer
- Thematic Teaching
- theme
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- This Little Piggy Reads
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- wonder by R.J. Palacio
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- Word Callers
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