Would you like a list of all of the lessons that your students will need this year during writing? This free guide is packed with specific lesson ideas for narrative, opinion and informational writing.
Writing workshop is my jam! Teaching writing shouldn’t feel like a chore. In these articles, you will find helpful strategies for mini lessons, writing conferences, editing, grading, and so much more.
Often, teacher training programs focus on having student teachers write lesson plans. It makes sense, because they usually are teaching a lesson or taking over a class for a few weeks with supervision. But knowing how to write a lesson plan will only take you so...
Are you looking for student-friendly resources that will help your students master content from Ancient and World history? My presentations and correlated notes and assessments will make planning a breeze. Each topic has presentations, interactive notebooks, digital...
Interactive notebooks have a bad rap - they take too long to cut and glue, so they aren’t worth so much time. However, for me, the pros outweigh the cons. In my experience, students retained more of what they learned with INBs, and I was better able to meet the needs...
Often, teacher training programs focus on having student teachers write lesson plans. It makes sense, because they usually are teaching a lesson or taking over a class for a few weeks with supervision.
Are you looking for student-friendly resources that will help your students master content from Ancient and World history? My presentations and correlated notes and assessments will make planning a breeze.
In my experience, students retained more of what they learned with INBs, and I was better able to meet the needs of my students.
Blooket is an engaging way to review concepts in your classroom. I connected with a member of the Blooket team and he answered my questions!
Games review concepts in a non-threatening way – there are no grades to worry about and friends can help you understand what to do.
After realizing that what I was looking for didn’t exist, I knew that I couldn’t be the only teacher needing more support in reading strategies.
I have found that part of preparing students for testing season is having them work through each type of question beforehand.
Over my time in the classroom, I developed solid test-taking strategies that really helped my students be prepared for the test
How do you differentiate your prep work enough so each student is fully prepared for testing? BalloonPop™ games are a great way to differentiate test prep for a student’s needs.
Is there a way to make sure students do well on testing? I think there is! I wrote two articles on testing that I encourage you to read.
Students should have a good understanding of Greek and Latin roots and affixes as one of the building blocks of English language.
A lot of kids struggle with comprehension because they are so focused on figuring the words that they lose meaning. To solve this problem, I developed BalloonPop™ phonics games!
Instead of trying to ignore the day, use students’ excitement to increase learning with fun Valentine’s Day-themed lessons in your classroom.
It makes sense for students to panic on constructed-response essays. I have easy to implement ways students can prepare for writing essays during standardized testing.
Did you know that 80% of children with a diagnosed learning disability are estimated to have an undiagnosed vision problem?!
