Fourth and Fritcher

NYS Fourth Grade Teacher 🍎 History Is My Jam ⏳ Show Me the Data 📈

[Fourth and Fritcher @Fourth_Fritcher]

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[Katherine Applegate (kaaauthor.bsky.social) @kaaauthor]

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[Carol Jago @CarolJago]

The best graphic organizers start with a blank sheet of paper.

The goal isn't a perfectly filled-in graphic but organized thinking.

[Fourth and Fritcher @Fourth_Fritcher]

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[Fourth and Fritcher @Fourth_Fritcher]

@_brewsnbanter My choice would be the Saint Bernard; but only a sniff. I’ll pass on the lick.

[Fourth and Fritcher @Fourth_Fritcher]

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[Fourth and Fritcher @Fourth_Fritcher]

She is a powerful speaker with a powerful message.

[Tom Colabufo @TColabufo]

Thank you, Erin Merryn. https://t.co/49PI89oYcy

[Fourth and Fritcher @Fourth_Fritcher]

Amazing!! 🇺🇸

[Katie Knapp @MrsKnappENL]

🤯🤯🤯I swear, he gets better and better! Paint, marker, and colored pencils all together!😍😍#LHSells

[Fourth and Fritcher @Fourth_Fritcher]

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[Fourth and Fritcher @Fourth_Fritcher]

@TColabufo @CentralSquareSD Originallly created by General Washington in 1782 to recognize meritorious service. It has changed (in looks and meaning) since its beginning. 💜 🇺🇸

[Fourth and Fritcher @Fourth_Fritcher]

@mraspinall Reading Tom Sawyer aloud while we worked on math. (And using voices.)

[Fourth and Fritcher @Fourth_Fritcher]

@TColabufo Future Cartographer! 🗺

[Baldwinsville CSD @BCSDBEES]

Bees in the News: Great work, Dariyan Deweese!
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[Fourth and Fritcher @Fourth_Fritcher]

@TColabufo @CentralSquareSD Lincoln was the 🐐!! 🇺🇸 🎩

[Fourth and Fritcher @Fourth_Fritcher]

@drheidibc @reading_league @lifelonglit @OCLI_Reads @MHEMrsViel Instead of labeling schwas “irregular”, we can name them.

Then students learn it and wire it into their brains.

Schwa is very chameleon-like, but we can give students enough information for them to see and consider the sound when we label it as a syllable type.

[Fourth and Fritcher @Fourth_Fritcher]

Why isn’t schwa a syllable type?
Seriously... I have strong arguments for it.
#SchwaIsASyllableType

@drheidibc @reading_league @lifelonglit @OCLI_Reads @MHEMrsViel

[Fourth and Fritcher @Fourth_Fritcher]

@drheidibc @reading_league @lifelonglit @OCLI_Reads @MHEMrsViel Fair question. I’ve thought about this...a lot. I’ve narrowed it down like this.

The definition has evolved as I’ve considered the way we use syllables and mapping (and the routes our brains use) to come up with the correct vowel sound for a syllable when we are decoding.

[Fourth and Fritcher @Fourth_Fritcher]

@drheidibc @reading_league @lifelonglit @OCLI_Reads @MHEMrsViel When we give students the option of a “schwa syllable”, they have a more concrete way to figure out the code.

They can wire /uh/ into their sounds and use it as an option within a syllable.

[Fourth and Fritcher @Fourth_Fritcher]

@drheidibc @reading_league @lifelonglit @OCLI_Reads @MHEMrsViel As the most common sound popping up in all sorts of places and in all sorts of combinations, I submit that schwa has earned the right to its own syllable type.
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[Fourth and Fritcher @Fourth_Fritcher]

@drheidibc @reading_league @lifelonglit @OCLI_Reads @MHEMrsViel Agree on all points above.
However, when explicitly teaching about schwa and taking the approach that it is a “syllable type” to consider, student decoding improves.

And when mapping words such as “family” and “America”, schwa syllable type makes sense.

[Fourth and Fritcher @Fourth_Fritcher]

@TColabufo @CentralSquareSD Cannot Wait!! 🥳