I was so tired of hearing a collective groan from my students wshen it was time for writing. I thought there had to be simple solutions out there for how to motivate students to write. Where I saw the struggle, frustration, and dislike for writing emerge from my students was when
I often get asked for advice on creating a classroom library checkout system. Teachers invest a lot of their own personal time and money into accumulating books and setting up a class library. While they want those books in the hands of their students, they have just cause to be
The classroom library plays a very important role in elementary classrooms. There are so many different ways to organize it. It can feel daunting! Read below to get some helpful classroom library organization ideas to help you set up your classroom library in a way that truly works! 7 Classroom
Understanding a character’s words and actions will help to support a student’s overall comprehension of a text. Being able to visualize and summarize character traits are prerequisites to higher levels of comprehension, such as synthesizing information, making inferences, and forming opinions. This Charlotte’s Web packet will help to strengthen those
You likely already know that graphic organizers are great tools for improving reading comprehension and writing skills. However, you may not be as familiar with how they can be used as powerful evaluation tools. Using graphic organizer for assessment is one of the best ways to offer a differentiated assessment.
If you are an elementary teacher looking for tips and ideas for teaching genres to elementary students, you found the right place! As teachers, we want our students to read and experience a wide variety of literary genres and to fall in love with reading. Oftentimes, however, it is hard
At some point in their elementary career students magically transition from “learning to read” to “reading to learn.” As they become stronger readers, a whole new world is open to them. Teachers can start to implement literature circles or book clubs to introduce children to the amazing concept of socially
In addition to using graphic organizers to increase reading comprehension, they are great for improving students’ writing skills. In this post, I’ll share my love for these handy visual displays by discussing the different types of graphic organizers and how to use them to improve student writing. Learn all about
If you are an elementary teacher looking to learn more about using graphic organizers in your classroom, then you found the right place! This post focuses on using graphic organizers for reading comprehension to improve students’ literacy skills. Graphic organizers are a powerful tool students can use to help them
Before I share chapter book read alouds you should add to your reading list this summer, let my share how the end of every school year typically played out for me. I would count the seconds to summer vacation with jubilation. Sure, I shed some annual tears as I said
It is always challenging to meet the varied needs of the learners in your classroom. Ideally, you want your students to be working on the same activity, but you understand that each learner has different needs and abilities. These printable spelling activities for any word list allow you to easily
There are tons of strategies for analyzing texts. This post will focus on teaching students to annotate important parts of the text, which is called text annotation. Teaching text annotation is a great way to support your 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students because it’s an effective reading comprehension strategy
