What Can We Do Today?

Have you ever been at a loss for teaching ideas? Sometimes it's difficult to come up with activities and games when you're working one-on-one with students. Some games are suited for a whole class and can not be adapted, but take heart: there are activities to do other than worksheets when you are working with one student at a time. If your budget is tight, instead of buying overpriced games at your local school supply store or website, go to the many free teaching websites and download activities and game templates!

One of my favorite websites does have an annual subscription fee, but they offer a free 7 day trial membership. It is LearningA-Z.com. Each day, for 7 days, you may download 10 items (lesson plans, games, short picture books, etc.) You don't even have to give them a credit card number. When you have downloaded 5 items, they give you a pop-up 1/2 way warning and then stop the downloading automatically at 10. Besides the 7 day access to all their resources, they also have a link to samples! Woo-hoo! There are four divisions of the LearningA-Z website, including readingtutors.com and readingA-Z.com. You can get 7 day trial subscriptions for each division, giving you a month of downloads. That will keep your students busy and engaged for a long time.