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DIFFERENTIATION

Differentiation can be hard, but it doesn’t have to be. These blog posts help you explore “everything differentiation” so that you can implement it in your classroom to meet the needs of every. single. student. without pulling your hair out.

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The unfortunate truth is that teachers today are competing with electronics in order to get students' attention in the classroom. This is a tough obstacle to be up against! To try help my fellow teachers start their lessons out strong, I'm sharing 20 ways to catch their attention in this post.

Catch Their Attention From the Start

Holding students’ attention in the classroom now is more difficult than years ago. I blame electronics. No, really, I do. Kids are constantly holding electronic

Rules, procedures, and expectations must always be taught on the 1st day of school - but you should be doing other things on that first day, too! Read this list of 10 things every teacher must do on the 1st day of school to make that day more engaging and calming for your students.

10 Things Teachers MUST DO on the 1st Day of School!

Ahhhh… Summer is gone. Where did it go? It seems that it was only yesterday that you were packing up your classroom and driving off

Getting to know your students is incredibly important - not just at the beginning of the year but also all year long. I share my top 10 ideas for getting to know your students inside this blog post, and I share the link for you to download a free interest survey to use with them! Get the freebie here!

10 Ideas to Get to Know Your Students

If you know your students well, then your classroom will run much smoother, and helping students understand will be easier. When we take the time

There are a handful of addition and subtraction strategies that can be taught, but in this blog post, I'm sharing exactly how I teach the split strategy for addition and subtraction. Read all of my steps and download a free resource to help you implement the split strategy in your math instruction!

Teaching Addition and Subtraction Strategies

Teaching addition and subtraction strategies doesn’t have to be complicated once you understand them. I wrote recently about understanding the addition and subtraction strategies, and

The Common Core State Standards reference several "different" strategies for addition and subtraction, but when you really research them, you discover that there are really only three strategies. In this post, I teach you about the split strategy, the jump strategy, and the shortcut strategy. Get all of the details here

Understanding Addition & Subtraction Strategies

When Common Core stated that we needed to teach addition and subtraction strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition

Reading fluency is about more than just pace, accuracy, and smoothness. It is also about expression! I share my process for teaching expression in fluency in this blog post, which includes a discussion of how punctuation marks influence expression and fluency. Get all of the tips in this post!

Teaching Expression in Fluency

Recently I posted 8 Ideas to Build Fluency, but there is so much more to fluency than just reading at a good pace and accurately.

Applied math is an essential aspect of the Common Core State Standards for mathematics. To implement applied math in an engaging and authentic way, I created this "design my house" estimating area and perimeter activity, which you can read all about in this blog post!

Teaching Area Using Applied Math

With the implementation of CCSS, there is a shift toward applied math concepts and skills taught through the use of authentic, real-life problems rather than

Teaching with Outdated Textbooks

We all have them, and we are all doing it: teaching with outdated textbooks. In fact, technology and our informational knowledge is on such an

It's important for students to know and understand their multiplication facts and multiplication strategies, but it's equally as important for students to know multiplication shortcuts. This blog post describes how I went about teaching multiplication shortcuts to my students, so read the full post to get all of the details!

Teaching Multiplication Shortcuts

Multiplication. Multiplication is a BIG deal in third grade and up. In fact, it’s so vital that teaching multiplication shortcuts can sometimes be your saving

Check out this list of ideas to spark an interest in words in your students! Many kids today fall into slang, text talk, video game talk, and other types of language, and they don't seem to have an interest in words and in building their vocabularies. The activities suggested in this post are meant to help spark an interest in words so that students become word collectors and build their vocabularies!

Spark Interest in Words

Too many students today speak a language of slang or video games. Their interest in words – real language – has fallen to the wayside.

Although it may not seem like it, reading fluency is incredibly important for comprehension. If students cannot read fluently, then their ability to comprehend what they read is impeded. This blog post shares eight ideas to help build fluency in your students, so click through to get all eight of them!

8 Ideas to Help Build Fluency

Fluency is extremely important because it takes students a step beyond word recognition and into the land of comprehension. Once students are no longer focusing