Karen Terlecky’s fifth-grade students share what they learned from their word study homework.
Fifth-Grade Word Study Homework
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Karen Terlecky
Karen Terlecky has been been teaching for over 3o years. She has worked in many different roles during her educational career. She started as a middle school learning disabilities / behavior disorders teacher, then transitioned to teaching a developmentally handicapped class in an elementary school for six years, and worked with students with hearing impairments as well.
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