
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!

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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