9 Effective Strategies for Increasing Student Engagement
As teachers, we know that the more engaged our students are in the lesson, the more learning happens and solidifies. That makes engagement a BIG
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4 Fun Ways to Teach Biographies
Biographies are fascinating to read at any age, but young children love hearing stories about real people. Learning about the lives of those who lived
4 Ways to Use Challenge Phonics to Teach Digraphs
As ELA teachers, we all want our students to become confident and proficient in reading and spelling English. But English can be a tricky language!
4 Fun Ways to Teach Prefixes
Many important language arts standards must be taught for students to be successful readers and writers. Oftentimes, those standards can be a bit dry for
25 Meaningful Report Card Comments
Why does writing Report Card comments have to be so hard?! Sometimes it’s a mental block. How do you give parents an honest and clear
10 Amazing Spring Activities For Your Classroom
Every Spring, we get to celebrate the end of winter and anticipate new leaves budding on the trees and flowers blooming! Students love looking forward
How To Melt Cups into Ornaments: A Teacher’s Simple, Cheap and Cute Christmas Craft
Year after year I search for new ideas I can use in my classroom for Christmas gifts to the parents. I basically narrow down ideas
10 Creative and Fun Ways to Celebrate Read Across America Day
Every year, I look forward to a special day on my calendar – Read Across America Day! This is a day where my students and
7 Engaging and Fun St. Patrick’s Day Books For The Elementary Classroom
If you love celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in your classroom, then this is your lucky today – pun intended! While I love incorporating shamrocks and
Halloween and fall spelling activities that are perfect for word work centers
Looking for some fun Fall and Halloween spelling activities? Then I’ve got you covered with these 12 Halloween Spelling practice activities! They can be used
8 Awesome Martin Luther King Jr Activities and Videos for your Classroom
It is so important that we teach our students about the brave men and women who helped shape the history of our nation. Men and
10 Immediate Actions to do NOW to Prepare for a Substitute Teacher
Whether you woke up feeling like you were hit by a truck or stayed up all night taking care of your sick child, we have
20 Varied and Fun December Writing Prompts That Aren’t About Christmas
Christmas activities can add some fun to your classroom, but there’s only so much Rudolph and Frosty a teacher can take over the course of
7 Engaging and Fun Place Value Activities to increase Student Success
Teaching place value can sometimes prove to be a difficult task. Children are concrete learners, and place value is much more abstract. As teachers, we
24 Fabulous and Fun Ways to Use Task Cards in the Classroom
When you’re a busy teacher, lessons and materials need to make your “teacher life” easier NOT harder! One ingenious way of doing this is by