These 25 quick and easy tips for new teachers will help you create a positive, engaging, and effective learning environment for your students.

Let's dive into some new options to teach vocabulary, for those who have the time and energy to pursue them. In this post and podcast, I'm sharing ten ideas for making the study of vocabulary something students might even look forward to.

Assessing a student’s learning is an integral part of teaching. An assessment aims to measure what your students have learned or will be learning in the future.

Learning to read and spell silent letter words can be tricky for kids. Learn teaching tips and tricks that make this concept easy and fun!

Free inspirational posters and motivational quotes for teachers. Colorful posters for teachers with motivating quotes.

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

Introducing students to challenging words through Word of the Week can help increase their confidence in reading, writing, & speaking.

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…

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Kids and young adults need extensive practice in strengthening their executive functioning skills. Executive functions are the processes in our brains that help us accomplish all tasks from beginning to end. We use them when we plan our day, organize our materials, begin a chore, focus on important

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Looking for games to play with a classroom? This list of English games in the classroom is exactly what you need to engage students!

Teach kids to be mindful with this 5 step activity. This "break" method will help kids and adults focus and live in the moment.

15 exit ticket ideas for any subject or grade level!

This post shares tips and strategies for teaching different learning styles to meet the needs of all learners.

You have come to the right place to receive a logical order to teach phonics for Kindergarten and First Grade. Subscribe to the blog to learn more about teaching K-2 with content and free resources. Click on the picture to print. Have you ever wondered what is the order to teach phonics? Here you will find a list for you ready to print FREE!! Download for this FREE list and start teaching today! Below this freebie is a year long spelling with the order of phonics for first grade. Click on the following picture to purchase and learn how to teach the order of phonics with a full year of spelling lists and word sorts differentiated for 3 levels! Thank you for spending time with me today. Let me know if you have questions below or in the Q/A section of my TPT store. Robin Wilson First Grade Love

Some newcomers arrive with no English at all and need to focus on basic classroom English first. This pack will help.

Learn how to identify point of view types, and why they matter.

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! […]

Is your child ready to read 2-syllable words? Great! Here are teaching tips for the most common early reading problems and fun activity ideas to keep your child engaged!

Teaching regular past tense form is one of the very first morphemes (fancy word for a unit of meaning) that we teach our young readers and writers.

Welcome to the Thrive Literacy Corner library of free resources for subscribers! I will update this library on a regular basis as I create new resources. These resources are in PDF format and can be

I've had such a love-hate relationship with data notebooks over the years. I've always worked in "Baldrige" schools that have required every teacher to have a data wall and every student to have a data notebook. My first few years in the classroom, this would be something that I spent my first week of school

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 […]

CVCe anchor chart inspiration is here! I've gathered up all of my favorite free anchor charts for teaching CVCe as silent e, magic e, bossy e, and more!

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…

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In our classroom we have been learning all about prepositions. I usually hate teaching grammar, but these hands-on reading units have made it so much more fun! Pinterest I started off by introducing prepositions with a song… These songs were PERFECT!! If you play them, be prepared for a classroom of little singers that will […]

Do your students struggle with writing a constructed response? Teach them to RAP! Print smaller versions for individual students or print poster size to hang as an anchor chart.

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Free Consonant Digraphs Posters for immediate download and print. Laminate and hang these in your classroom or homeroom setting for great visuals.

Every English language arts teacher needs a variety of successful, student led discussion strategies that will provide opportunities for student learning.

All about the schwa sound, including how to teach it, schwa word activities, and a free schwa words list pdf download.

Check out this procedure writing freebie. This 'how to' writing worksheet helps students write about how to make popcorn!

Use this Silly Sentence printable in your literacy center for a fun activity to teach the parts of a sentence in English.

Teaching schwa-A vowels can feel tricky, but it really isn't! This article will help you discover some useful ways how to teach schwa

Click the following link to download this free poster Homophones Poster Many reading programs introduce the concept of homophones in second grade. Homophones are words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have a different meaning. Our students need to be able to tell the difference in the meanings of these words and to use […]

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Reading Response activities will likely form a major part of your reading programme, whether you are running guided reading groups, a daily 5 system,

Are you teaching students to identify the four types of sentences? Check out this blog post. It contains multiple activities that you can use in your upper elementary classroom! Check out the types of sentences anchor chart and download the FREE worksheet and interactive notebook foldable!

Sharing some activities to do with students for teaching CVCE words using magic e. All of this and more is available in my TPT store!

This blog post features five free idiom activities, like a free idioms PowerPoint, game, task cards, and an engaging anchor chart!

I temper my rage when I hear these kinds of things coming from kids' mouths - and yes, I’ve heard them before. And I teach students first - not curriculum.

Want to teach your child the most important spelling rules? These are the basics and will help your child spell common words.

These six free printable Human Body Worksheets contain activities to keep a child entertained while also teaching them everything they need to know about the human body. The human body is so important to learn about!