Educational Articles For Educators
Textbook VS Texts: Pros & Cons Of Using Them in Social Studies
Are you Team Textbook or Team Passages? There are solid reasons for using either one and also reasons to not use them. Let’s examine the pros and cons of each.
Supporting Struggling Readers in Middle Grades
With targeted interventions and a supportive classroom environment, these students can begin to feel successful, which in turn helps motivate them to try.
Grammar BalloonPop™ - The Review Game You Need!
BalloonPop™ is self-correcting and self-paced. As students play, they are returned to the question to try again after an incorrect answer.
Keeping Students Focused As Testing Season Looms
Testing season is coming quickly. How do we keep our students focused as we inch closer and closer to testing and the end of the school year?
Fever 1793
Although teachers always look for new books to read with their students, many of us have a shortlist of favorites they pull out year after year. Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson is on the must-read list of many middle school teachers.
5th Grade Math BEST Standards
What can fifth grade teachers expect from the new Florida BEST Standards for math? How do they compare to the MAFS standards?