In this six part series on How to Teach Spelling, this third post discusses and provides teaching resources for teaching the eight conventional spelling rules.
Filler Activities for ELA (blog post) What can you do with five extra minutes in secondary ELA? Here are a few ideas to engage students until the bell.
Click through to check out my FREE resources for teaching point of view and perspective including anchor charts and activities.
This week I'm sharing a packet of materials on using and making dichotomous keys. You'll find a page of informational text, directions for using a key, directions for making a key, and two different student worksheets. Here's a sneak peak at the contents. Download Dichotomous Keys. I hope you get a chance to use these in your home or classroom. Please let me know if you try these and how you like them! **Updated January 2019. Please note that in the updated version the Blue-footed Booby has been replaced with another animal.
Three fun and engaging Lord of the Flies introduction activity ideas that will hook students from day one!
7th Grade Ela Worksheets Printable from 9th grade english worksheets , image source: homeshealth.info
Students love this silly, funny area of a triangle foldable activity for student interactive notebooks because this is a lesson they're sure to remember!
Algebra resources for teaching and learning mathematics. Fun and visual resources for maths teachers and kids.
A test about future tenses, adjectives, adverbs, present simple and present continuous tense with the key. - ESL worksheets
Lesson ideas and activities for listening skills practice and monitoring
Outliers can be marked with an * instead of being used as the minimum or maximum number. _________________________________________
Before I started teaching high school, I taught middle school science for 14 years and my absolute favorite topic to teach students is genetics. The “a-ha” moments when they learn abou…
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Are you looking for ways to practice operations with scientific notation? You're in the right place. In this post I'll share 9 10 practice activities you can immediately use in your classroom that support students effort
Ideas for teaching proportional relationships (7.RP.2) - including activities and common misconceptions to avoid in your math classroom.
A blog about free resources for the secondary math classroom.
Similar Polygons Interactive Notebook Page Ideas for Geometry
Ideas for teaching proportional relationships (7.RP.2) - including activities and common misconceptions to avoid in your math classroom.
Just a super quick post…this week is crazier than usual…probably because I am missing Friday and Monday to go visit my brother in Palm Beach, Florida and see him play lacrosse! One of m…
We want them to be able to make an argument using evidence, logic, and reasoning. And we want them to be able to do this in a variety of ways. But it’s difficult to create any sort of argumen…
FREEBIE Worksheet, Bell Work, Guided Notes, PowerPoint and Much More to Help you Teach Your Lesson on Simplifying Radicals.
Getting started with CER (claim, evidence, reasoning) in your science class this year? Explore this roundup of CER resources.
Teaching Tips for One Variable Inequalities in Algebra 1
Teaching divisibility rules is more fun and engaging with these divisibility rules doodle notes and math doodle wheel!
We have been concentrating on myths in our reading/writing (to connect to the Native American unit we just wrapped up) and I wanted to share a few things we did with you. First, we read The Gift of the Sacred Dog (Reading Rainbow Book) , which is a myth to tell how the Native peoples were gifted the horse. It really was a great myth to read because it is pretty typical of all myths. We were able to really see all of the major elements found within myths. We then created a simple "door" foldable (I have no idea if that is what it is called...it is just what I called it) with all of the major traits of a myth on it. The students looked through The Gift of the Sacred Dog (Reading Rainbow Book) and picked out examples of all the major mythical traits. Next, students were given their own myths to read. In partners, they read them aloud (to work on fluency) and then picked out the major mythical traits as well. This information went on the bottom portion of the foldable so the students had a side by side comparison of the two myths. As a class, we put all the information together on a big class chart (which, of course, I did NOT take a picture of!) Doing this allowed the students to see just how universal these mythological traits were and how they could be found in one way or another within the myths. They also saw that not all of the myths had every.single trait, and that was ok too. Next, I wanted the students to transfer this knowledge into writing their own myths. The students went outside and we listened, looked, felt, and smelled nature. They then wrote all of their observations down in a circle map. Once that was done, the kids thought of one observation they wanted to "explain". It could have been why black widows have spots or why trees are rooted in the ground and can't move. We went over and over how these myths were not to be the scientific explanation, but a creative explanation that happened long ago and involved nature. After their question was chosen, the students created an answer. They had enough exposure to myths at this point to understand that I wanted them to have a creative answer that would then be explained throughout the story the were going to write. Since they knew where they were going to start, and where they wanted to finish, I asked them to fill in this myth trait chart with all of the elements they thought they would want to include. This was more of a brainstorm sheet, so if they ended up not using the ideas, that was ok. I just wanted them to begin to think about what supernatural elements, or whatnot they might include. Next, came the rough draft, followed by numerous peer revision sessions, and finally a final draft. Overall, these came out good. They seemed to get the point of the myth and how it is used in traditional cultures (which was the point of it all) and I am pleased with that. What are you working on in your reading/writing block?
Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai Classroom Activities to help teach your students about this amazing woman. Easy for teachers fun for kids!
Are you looking for a way teaching math vocabulary in a more visual and conceptual way? To differentiate for your struggling learners? Every year, it seems we get more and more visual learners coming into our classrooms, learners who benefit from math word walls that show concepts and vocabulary in action. This approach has worked wonders in my classroom and I know it will in yours! Adding a visual math word wall to my classroom completely changed how my students access our math vocabulary and the concepts we learn in class. Our math word walls are covered in examples and visuals that show the math concepts in context along with the vocabulary words we cover in class.
These Fraction, Decimal, and Percent conversions posters are a must have for any 6th, 7th, or 8th Grade Math Classroom! Help your class learn converting decimals, converting percents, and convertin…
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Hidden Figures gives us the opportunity to see behind the scenes of some of the most important events in NASA history and in the acceptance of women and minorities into STEM fields. It tells how,
