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PLANNING

Planning can take up a lot of a teacher’s time, but it doesn’t have to. Let me help you plan quality lessons that will meet your students’ needs and engage them. This section is here to help you so you can get back to your personal life.

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Have you ever struggled with predicting how long a lesson takes? Have you sometimes ran out of time during a lesson and not finished everything you needed to do, or ended up having too much time left over? This post covers how to estimate the time you need for each lesson.

Gauging How Long a Lesson Will Take

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

It is absolutely possible to facilitate learning in any subject with the six tips listed in this post. These suggestions are all based on foundational teaching practices and not on specific course curriculum. Click through to get these tips and save this post to reference later!

How to Facilitate Learning in ANY Subject

This critical thinking activity is all about getting your students to think deeper and to synthesize in your elementary classrooms! Students will love this engaging activity!

Forced Relationships

Forced relationships. Have you heard of these? Yes, I’m still talking about education concepts. No, I’m not talking about the relationships you are forced to

Save time and copies with this quick and simple foldable idea for using the frayer model as a graphic organizer in your elementary classroom! It will make your teaching ideas more engaging!

Foldable Frayer Model

Do you love the Frayer Model, but your kids are getting a bit bored with it? Why not mix things up a bit? Turn it

I'm sure there are some students in your classroom with the behavior of feeling like they don't exist or matter! This mentor text is perfect for teaching empathy and kindness when you are teaching about classroom citizenship!

MTM: The Invisible Boy

This week, my mentor text is The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig. I don’t know about you, but it sure seems that each year I

I love how this reading book really teaches the life lesson of perseverance and consequences of the choices we make! It would be a perfect mentor text for teaching classroom management!

MTM: Sam & Dave Dig a Hole

How many times have we thought to ourselves that we won’t give up until we get or find something spectacular? Many times, I’m thinking. My

The Common Core Reading Standards say that when we teach reading we need to make sure students are reading books with text complexity! How can we do that? With these ideas and tips of course! (Plus there is a freebie to get your students started!)

Shaping Up with Text Complexity

When I was in school, chin-ups were the worst thing any physical education teacher could make me do. I hated them with a passion. My

Are you teaching your students about personal narratives or memoirs in reading? Why not use this book as a mentor text! It's engaging and perfect for teaching about perspective! Your students will LOVE this book!

MTM: Memoirs of a Hamster

I often hear that there is not a place for read alouds and picture books in upper elementary. I couldn’t disagree more. When I taught

When teaching reading (or any subject area), you always have to approach the reading skill of cause and effect. It's a difficult concept for students! Check out these activities and ideas to help your students learn about cause and effect!

Not Your Traditional Cause and Effect Chains

Cause and effect. The Cause: The students not understanding cause and effect. The Effect: The teacher banging her head against the wall. Don’t we all

Do you need to spice up teaching text structure in reading? I have plenty of ideas and teaching activities to make it easy!

Spicing Up Text Structure

Not too long ago, I was teaching nonfiction text structure to my students. In reality, it can get a bit boring, and I felt I

What If You Had Animal Hair? makes a great nonfiction mentor text for teaching about the science idea of adaptation in animals.

MTM: What If You Had Animal Hair?

This week’s Mentor Text Monday is with Sandra Markle’s book, What If You Had Animal Hair? What If You Had Animal Hair? is a nonfiction

Reading Month Fun!

March is reading month and we have so many fun activities going on at our school to engage our students into reading! Our school

Wilma Unlimited can be used as a nonfiction mentor text for teaching about biographies in reading, along with perseverance, theme, sequencing, and reading strategies.

MTM: Wilma Unlimited

Wilma Unlimited. What can I say?! I know when I do my mentor text posts each week, I talk about how powerful this book and

If you are looking for a mentor text to create a touching mood while teaching about treating others kindly, look no further! This book can be used to teach making connections in reading and to bring discussion in the classroom.

MTM: Each Kindness

My mentor text this week is Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson. The author of this story explores the importance of being kind to others.

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PLANNING

Gauging How Long a Lesson Will Take

Informal Assessments A to Z: A list of Ideas

How to Facilitate Learning in ANY Subject

Forced Relationships

Foldable Frayer Model

MTM: The Invisible Boy

MTM: Sam & Dave Dig a Hole

Shaping Up with Text Complexity

MTM: Memoirs of a Hamster

Not Your Traditional Cause and Effect Chains

Spicing Up Text Structure

MTM: What If You Had Animal Hair?

Reading Month Fun!

MTM: Wilma Unlimited

MTM: Each Kindness

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TRY MATH WORKSHOP!

You can finally take back your weekends with Math Workshop! How? It’s jam-packed with everything you need – lesson plans, math centers, independent work and so much more! Try it yourself. Enter your information below and check it out!

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