Challenges with focus and attention can become a huge roadblock to learning for kids and young adults. Simply put, attention is critical to learning. If students can't focus on the lesson, they are going to struggle with understanding the new content. If students can't focus on the directions, they
A cheat sheet of education theorists and their research based teaching practices.
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Learning to read is such a fun and special time: it's a valuable skill, and sparking an early love of reading can make it become a lifelong passion. In order
Explore our range of fun and engaging year 4 fractions resources. Help children master fractions with highly visual worksheets.
What are your methods for teaching vocabulary? Drills? Flashcards? Yuck! Boring! While these can certainly be effective, they can be a quick way to lose your student’s attention if you spend too much…
Today I wanted to stop by and share some strategies for teaching vowel teams and diphthongs in our classroom! It’s always challenging to teach spelling patterns that aren’t easily decodable! […]
These 25 quick and easy tips for new teachers will help you create a positive, engaging, and effective learning environment for your students.
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.
Check out this free parts of the body preschool worksheets. Learn the parts of the body for kids on your next homeschooling lesson with this free download.
Some newcomers arrive with no English at all and need to focus on basic classroom English first. This pack will help.
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
If you're teaching nouns in first grade or second grade, this free noun game is a great fit! Kids can list a person, place, object, or animal as they move along the board. #firstgrade #secondgrade #noungame #grammar
In our everyday speech we use contractions. Contractions are a kind of “short cut” in the way we use words to communicate. Think about it for a bit. If you were going to tell a friend that you aren’t going to lunch, are you likely to say, “I am not going to lunch” or “I’m […]
Do you struggle with finding interesting ways to teach ESL listening skills? Maybe you have an activity or two already but you want to be able to mix it up and keep things interesting. By the end of…
Differentiation and scaffolding can help students better understand and learn. Here are teaching ideas and tips to use in class.
We all fall into one of nine learning styles. Which one is your strongest?
Cooperative learning. Find out what it's all about and get some great resources to help you use this strategy well in your classroom.
Teaching ideas and activities to support the personal financial literacy standards in middle school!
Teaching empathy is important. In the simplest of terms, empathy is the ability to notice, understand, and share the emotions of others. It is a critical social skill for all people to have. In many ways, empathy is the social skill that paves the way for all other social skills. It helps us to take
Children will practice using context clues as they identify the correct homophone in this grammar and spelling worksheet.
Making anchor charts has always been hard work for me. In fact, I never liked making anchor charts for the classroom. I did it because it helps the kids, but I am not a fan of my handwriting, my drawing is even worse, and let’s not even talk about the time it takes to make […]
