Whether you call it school-to-home communication or parent communication, it can make or break your year. Parent communication is more than just keeping parents in the loop - it's about building relationships with them. When they aren't on the same page as you, it can be very frustrating. Parent … [Read more...]
How to Help Struggling Readers Read to Self
Teaching silent reading voices to struggling readers (or all readers!) is a powerful tool to increase reading comprehension and fluency. As your students approach the upper grades, most reading time is spent reading to self. We teachers always emphasize the importance of letting students choose … [Read more...]
Summarizing Informational Text
Summarizing informational text has several uses for students. It teaches them to determine the most important ideas in a text, ignore unimportant information, and connect the main idea and key details of a text in a logical way. Summarizing also helps improve memory and comprehension of a text … [Read more...]
9 Tips to Help Students with ADHD, Hyperactivity, and other Attention Needs in the Classroom
I'm here to share 9 tips to help students with hyperactivity, ADHD, or other attention needs in your classroom. School can be a difficult place for students with hyperactivity, ADHD, or other attention needs. Their academic success depends heavily on their ability to pay attention and control … [Read more...]
How to Plan Your Meet the Teacher Open House Night
Whether it was my first year or my fourth year teaching, Meet the Teacher Open House night was always such a big source of stress. Sure, I'm excited to meet my new students, but making a good impression for parents always made me a bit nervous. However, over the years, I developed so many great … [Read more...]
A Fun Test Prep Idea
Are you looking for a fun test prep idea for 4th and 5th grade math? Switch things up with a Tic-Tac-Toe relay race during your test prep or testing time. You can use my Color by Number for Big Kids resource that I have for both 4th grade and 5th grade or any set of task cards to play this fun … [Read more...]
Test Prep Coloring Pages: Encouragement and Motivation for Test Time
During test prep and test time, our students could use a little encouragement and motivation. This time can be so stressful for students and teachers. I've found that coloring pages with motivational quotes can really help students during the testing season. To ease the stress, I've created these … [Read more...]
Teaching Literary Theme in Upper Elementary
In the upper grades, your students are no longer reading fables with clearly stated morals or lessons. Your students must read a fiction story and determine a theme (message or lesson), which is not explicitly stated. In this post, I will share a step-by-step process to teach theme in the upper … [Read more...]
The Benefits of Project-Based Learning
Why is Project-Based Learning Important? As educators, we all know that having students passively learn facts and information and then regurgitating those facts for a test or quiz is not sufficient. It does not prepare our students for the real world. Instead, we need to allow our students … [Read more...]
How to Sharpen Your Students’ Critical Thinking Skills
For the most part, reasoning, deducing, inferring, and critical thinking are not skills that come naturally to our students. Rather, they must be nurtured and developed. We want our students to become critical thinkers so they can reason and apply logic to solve novel problems throughout their … [Read more...]
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