Need to help your students get more hands on practice for their vocabulary words? I've got 5 fun vocabulary games you can use right away!
Want an intentional way to increase your students' morphological skills AND vocabulary? Try a morphology word of the day routine!
If you’re looking for some fun reviews to mix into your lessons this year, here are a few ways to use these ELA Digi-Games to mix things up a bit!
I have always loved words and am a self-proclaimed word nerd. I actually read the book Word Nerds, met the authors at a conference a few years ago, and got to lead a PLC in my school all about it! Research shows that a child's vocabulary is a key component to their success in school, on standardized tests, and in life in general! Those three reasons alone should be proof enough to any educator that VOCABULARY INSTRUCTION IS IMPORTANT! What I love about vocabulary instruction is that it's cross-curricular. The words found in children's literature are just as important as those found in content areas, like science and social studies, which, in my opinion, makes it almost effortless to incorporate into your instruction. However, the hard part of vocabulary instruction is making it interesting and engaging to students. Merely writing definitions can only go so far. One way to make vocabulary instruction more engaging is to provide your students a variety of ways for them to engage with a vocabulary and then allowing them to choose what type of activity will help them best learn the word and internalize its meaning. A vocabulary menu can accomplish this. Students are instructed to choose from the ...
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Take your word work reading center to the next level with these low prep and engaging word work centers! Plus, learn how to organize and run the word work center!
How to teach ELL students to read challenging, on-grade level texts through Visible Reading, a differentiated, process-driven reading strategy.
As ESL educators, our goal is to support English Learners (ELs)/ELLs/MLLs as they develop their language skills while keeping pace with content area learning. One highly effective tool to aid ELs in this journey is
Word work is a great way to get students working with words in engaging ways. Learn new word work activities that you can use to engage your students.
Get your students excited about language review with these FREE grammar activities for 3rd grade! Hands-on, collaborative, & fun ELA review!
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We are headed quickly for Back to School! Summer seems to go by faster every year, don't you think? This year for one of my goals in reading as we start back to school, I
Need to help your students get more hands on practice for their vocabulary words? I've got 5 fun vocabulary games you can use right away!
Celebrate Earth Day with nonfiction reading and writing. This no-prep
Daily grammar practice is a tool that helps students practice and master grammar standards. Learn more about grammar spiral review in the classroom.
Learning new words is like adding to your writing toolbox.
Here's a step-by-step guide for teaching students to identify text evidence and support answers to questions with evidence from passages.
If you’re looking for an in-depth vocabulary graphic organizer that appeals to grades 3-5, I’ve got you covered! Teaching younger grades? Try our Comic Strip Vocabulary Words printable. *This post contains affiliate links. This free vocabulary graphic organizer is for subscribers only. If you’re a subscriber, login here with the most current password. If you’re not ... Read More about Vocabulary Graphic Organizer for Grades 3-5
Morphology instruction is a powerful strategy for improving vocabulary and comprehension. This post shares several morphology activities.
Hello darlings! Do you teach vocabulary to your students? I think this is one thing we are missing in the upper grades and we are doing a disservice to our students. As they move up levels in reading, the thing that I notice that holds my students back the most is the challenging vocabulary they ... Read More about Adding Vocabulary to your ELA Block
Teaching prefixes and suffixes in isolation is a thing of the past! Teach your students so they learn the words in context.
Introducing your students to figurative language can be fun with picture books. Use these figurative language activities to help your students practice.
Copy or download a list of 4th grade vocabulary words in popular formats. accomplish, adaptation, approached, argued, automatically, avoid, border, calculate
Fun and engaging vocabulary and word work ideas and activities. Here the some freebies and other ideas for your 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th grade classroom.
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As ESL educators, our goal is to support English Learners (ELs)/ELLs/MLLs as they develop their language skills while keeping pace with content area learning. One highly effective tool to aid ELs in this journey is
Need to help your students get more hands on practice for their vocabulary words? I've got 5 fun vocabulary games you can use right away!
As a primary teacher, it can be very difficult fitting in grammar instruction into your day. I also have a little secret you might not know about me. I used to loathe teaching grammar. Can any of you relate? It's so difficult to even WANT to teach grammar when we have so many other things we could be doing with our day. Plus, many of us are expected to "spiral" it in with the many other subjects we are expected to teach throughout the day. Although all school districts, programs, and teachers are different, I have found something that students love doing, and that is applying new information into something called an interactive notebook!! And so I created these for grammar...and the students loved them!
If you have been following our blog, you might have seen our post about our favorite teacher hack, earlier finisher packets! If you missed it, don’t worry, I will sum it up real quick for you. Essentially, despite teaching different grade, Emmy and I realized we were both having the same Issue. Kid
Explicitly teaching, as well as continually modeling and practicing reading comprehension strategies with students is one of the most important jobs we have as teachers of growing readers. Research shows that teaching reading strategies encourages
Perfect for kids in kindergarten through middle school, these reading comprehension strategies and activities for struggling readers will not disappoint!
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Etymology, which is the study of the historical word orgins and their meanings, is a powerful tool for improving vocabulary.
Looking for an easy and fun teaching idea for your students to practice their vocabulary words? My students loved it and never realized they were learning! This strategy can work for any grade, from kindergarten to high school!
Need to help your students get more hands on practice for their vocabulary words? I've got 5 fun vocabulary games you can use right away!
Remembering all the things can be difficult for students. Grab these FREE reading test prep helpers to support your students with 4th and 5th grade reading standards.
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While I am a firm believer in students reading real books that they choose and doing this often, I also love to include reading games and reading centers in my instruction. On this post, I will share three of my favorite types of reading games and centers for 4th and 5th grade, free reading games […]
Here's a step-by-step guide for teaching students to identify text evidence and support answers to questions with evidence from passages.
