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This week's talented teacherpreneur is Angela from the Fantastic Teacher ! Angela is currently a teacher in McKinny, Texas. She decided to become a teacherpreneur when she was working at a poor school, and started making resources for her class. While working in Dallas ISD, her district implemented Writer's Workshop. As it was being implemented, she had a wonderful writing coach mentor who trained her and inspired her to create daily lesson plans for her class. As a result, she created hermost valuable resource, her Writer's Workshop (Taller de Escritura ). Her advice to those thinking of selling their resources online? If you love to create activities and lessons for your class, TpT is a good place to share your ideas and make money at the same time! It takes time to grow, but if it is something you love to do, it is worth it! Her goal moving forward is to find or create a daily intervention for her students that is fun and engaging!

Subitizing is the rapid and accurate identification of numbers used to assess small quantities. Knowing how to subitize (or recognize small quantities without having to count them) enables students to gain automaticity and numerical fluency. They can add and subtract faster. They are more confident in their abilities. In my subitizing activities center , I also incorporated number words, as an added skill students can practice and a way to incorporate literacy into my math time (we will fit literacy in whenever we can!) So, why is it important to have a math center focusing on number recognition, quantity (subitizing), and number words? Students need to be fluent in reading and math. Number words come up on many occasions in text (one specific example is the DRA assessment). Numerical fluency is important in problem solving. Seeing representations in your mind of the quantity of a number can help with adding more on, or taking away, or even grouping (tasks that require mu

My name is Nicole, and I am a past K/1st teacher and Reading Specialist. Currently I am a stay at home mom, and TpT seller at the Teacherof20 shop. In the past I've written 3 successful Donor choose projects that have gotten funded by anonymous donors within months of being written. Here are a few tips on how to write a stellar project. 1. Stay within the $100 to $300 range. The donors choose website itself will tell you that projects that are overly expensive rarely get funded. Not all projects are fully funded by a single donor. In the event yours isn't, it will take longer to fund if you have to wait for multiple donors. 2. Pick items and a theme for your project that isn't an immediate necessity. If you need the items right away, you probably don't want to rely on Donors Choose because it will more than likely take months for someone to fund your project. The three times my projects got funded, it took at least 2 or 3 months. If you absolutely need the materials r