If you're looking for ways to teach nonfiction text features, you've come to the right place. When students enter the upper grades, they are required to read more textbooks and informational texts. There is a shift from learning to read to reading to learn. These texts can be difficult for students … [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...]
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...]
Secrets of Successful Classroom Management: Encouraging a Growth Mindset
I'm here to share some secrets of successful classroom management. They are some of the simplest things you can do to have better classroom management, yet some teachers often forget to do them. The first secret - believe in your students, and let them know it. It's important … [Read more...]
End of the Year Tips, Games, Activities, and Lessons to Refocus your Students
I'm back with some end of the year tips, games, activities, and lessons! It happens every year. You have a few days with warm temperatures, and students all of a sudden think that it's summer vacation. Or, state testing finishes, and students think it's time to pack things up. Unfortunately (or … [Read more...]
Teaching Differentiated Area in Math: Ideas to Make Practicing Area Fun
I'm here to sare some ideas to help you differentiate when teaching area. Each year, I find that many of my students struggle to grasp the concept of area. Even though it is a standard that should be mastered in lower grades, most of my students still don't have a proficient understanding of this … [Read more...]
Spreading Kindness in the Classroom
Now, more than ever, we need to teach our students about spreading love and kindness. I am a firm believer that the best way to do this is by showing our students what it looks like and what it sounds like to be kind. When it comes to lessons on character and community building, I sometimes teach … [Read more...]
Writing Narrative Endings
I have to be honest. Teaching writing is tough. Each year, I set out to build a community of writers, and it is no easy task. One of the toughest things for my students is writing endings. They always start out with catchy beginnings only to get bogged down and just stop at the end. How many … [Read more...]
How To Convert Your Fake Readers Into Real Readers
I'm here to share some tried and true tips and tricks to convert your fake readers into real readers. To help our fake readers, we have to identify their coping behaviors that are helping them hide the fact that they aren't reading. Here is a list of 10 Ways to Spot a Fake Reader: I … [Read more...]
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