
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

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

Spiral review is important. Do you do it? Are you looking for a way to make it fun and to only take about 20 minutes

You’re a teacher. You want your students to learn. You are already tailoring the curriculum to their individual needs – differentiating, they say. What more

We have been focusing a lot lately on our Animal Classification Unit. I’m always surprised how much the students know about the vertebrate group but how

Common Core has required that we implement more nonfiction into our classroom. It’s so easy in elementary to focus on fiction texts, but sometimes it

If your classroom is like mine, then you have very few minutes in the day. I have occasionally joked about having to follow my kids

With all the technology and instant gratification out there, sometimes it can be difficult to engage students. I know sometimes I think, “what can I

Math is very important. Even without all the standardized testing, we know that it’s critical for students to grasp it. Unfortunately, there are some students