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Pam Koutrakos

Word Study At Home: Resources, Printables, Video Lessons, and Ideas for Joyful Word Exploring

Craving low-prep, playful, and inherently flexible ways to continue learning at home? Word exploring may be your answer! Investigating...

Pam Koutrakos

Introducing… Word Study That Sticks! (A Sneak Peek and a Giveaway)

When I was growing up, there was no word study in schools. We had phonics, and then spelling, and then word of the day. My classmates and...

Pam Koutrakos

How Do I Assess Students in Word Study?

For most of my life (as a student and as a teacher), word study assessments were a weekly spelling test. As a student, I numbered down...

Pam Koutrakos

How can I bring a sense of DISCOVERY to word study?

“The important thing is to not stop questioning: curiosity has its own reason for existing.” -Albert Einstein I am an optimist......

Pam Koutrakos

How might I schedule MY time during word study to meet the needs of all students?

I find tremendous value and flexibility in the structure of workshop. Instruction across subjects and throughout my day has a tendency...

Pam Koutrakos

What Do Our Word Study Notebooks Look Like?

Many teachers I know (myself included) keep their own reading and writing notebooks. We want to show students that we live this work...

Pam Koutrakos

What is Word Study?

“Words mean more than is set down on paper. It takes human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.” -Maya Angelou Word study is a hot...