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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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Trying to differentiate during online learning can feel like a huge challenge. This post provides lots of ideas to help make distance learning easier when it comes to differentiation in the classroom!

How to Differentiate During Online Learning

How to Tier Your Lessons Successfully

Scaffolding instruction for struggling students is an important step that many teachers need to be taking - and sometimes, teachers are rescuing students rather than scaffolding instruction for them. This post helps identify the difference between scaffolding and rescuing and helps you better understand what scaffolding instruction looks like.

Are You Scaffolding or Rescuing?

I know you have students with short attention spans in your class, so how are you supporting them? Our students with ADD or ADHD need special support to help them succeed, so this post outlines five ways that you can help meet the needs of your students who have short attention spans.

5 Ideas to Help Students with Short Attention Spans

I don’t recall growing up hearing so much about children with ADD or ADHD. Perhaps it was around, but I just didn’t notice. I do

Giving a great read aloud is tantamount to helping kids enjoy reading. In this post I share five tips to giving a great read aloud, as well as three tips for choosing the right read aloud. There are a few important factors that go into making read aloud time fun and successful for kids!

5 Tips to Giving a GREAT Read Aloud

If you have been around a while here at my blog, then you know that I love picture books and using them as mentor texts!

Teaching Children to be Skeptical

Each day children are blasted with nonstop messages that are trying to tell them how they should think: on television, there is the stream of commercials; on

Giving Anchor Charts Purpose

Anchor charts are everywhere. When you are scrolling the feed on Pinterest, you see them. When you purchase products on TpT, or even when you

If you're bored with the same informal assessments such as the ticket out the door, check out this list of assessment ideas that are low prep and engaging for your classroom. This blog post includes an A to Z list of ideas for informal assessments with a FREE printable.

Informal Assessments A to Z: A list of Ideas

We all need to use assessments in our classroom to determine how our students are doing with the content, but if you are like me,

Make science engaging and memorable with this list of ideas to integrate science into students' daily school routine. Science experiments are fun, but they're usually very short-lived in terms of engagement. I provide a list of alternative ideas that allow teachers to weave science into the school day for long-term impact and to get students used to a higher exposure of science vocabulary and concepts.

Creative Ways to Make Science Engaging & Memorable

When you ask students what science makes them think of, there are two groups. There is a group of kids who think of science experiments

Photosynthesis is often a challenging topic to teach students, because it's hard to conceptualize and understand. Starting off your plants unit with a role playing activity about photosynthesis is the perfect way to get students engaged and to help them visualize how photosynthesis works!

Making Photosynthesis Engaging to Upper Elementary

Photosynthesis is a difficult concept for third graders – even older grades really, depending on how in-depth you go with it. When I teach my

A child's socioeconomic status highly influences his or her vocabulary attainment, but regardless of that, you should use a variety of ways to increase your students' vocabulary. I share several ideas in this post, and I've included a free chart that you can download, as well!

Increase Students’ Vocabulary

I’m sure I don’t have to tell you that vocabulary is extremely important in every classroom, regardless of what grade level or content you teach.

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

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