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Reading is a valuable and critical skill that students need to develop. As teachers, we are always in need of fresh ideas and tips to help our kiddos soar to new reading heights. Explore this section to get started.

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6 Ways to Teach Reading Strategies by Reading a Good Book

Every classroom has reluctant readers - probably a few of them! This blog post shares four tips to motivate reluctant readers, including tips like going digital and comparing books and movies. Click through to read all of the suggestions in more detail!

4 Tips to Motivate Reluctant Readers

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

A display of math quests in my classroom on top of a treasure hunt map

Math Quests: Choose Your Own Thrilling Math Adventure!

If you looking for a way to engage your students, practice technology skills, review important math concepts, and increase their reading fluency and comprehension, then this resource is the one for you! It is a mix of “create your own adventure” and “math quest” in one!

One Way to Help Struggling Readers

This last school year my daughter was a struggling reader. As I asked what I could do to help her, the teacher repeatedly told me

6 Ways to Teach Reading Strategies by Reading a Good Book

Teaching through distance learning right now can be challenging! We want to engage our students while making sure they are still learning and practicing reading

Creating a Passion for Reading During Science

If you were to do a google search on instilling the love for reading, you would get back about 12 million hits! That’s incredible. Yet,

Help your students comprehend poetry with these close reading ideas and steps that are sure to engage and help even your struggling readers of any grade! There are four steps to work through with your students to make poetry accessible and fun. Click through to learn more!

Helping Students Comprehend Poetry

I love poetry. It can be inviting to read, fun to write, and well…interesting to teach. It can especially be a challenge to students who

4 Tips to Motivate Reluctant Readers

The best way to improve reading skills is by doing just that…reading. However, what can we do for children who are resistant to reading? How

Do your students have to create timelines to meet academic standards? Check out these 10 different timelines that are sure to engage and motivate your students during social studies with this important reading skill!

10 Engaging Ways to Create Timelines

Teaching about timelines is a skill that crosses into language arts, science, and social studies, at the very least. It is often found as a

Creating Readers with Reading Rally

Each year for reading month, I like to make sure I have lots of activities going on to emphasize just how important reading is. Some

Does your school have a Reading Stars competition? I know that competitions are sometimes looked down upon in schools, but this Reading Star challenge is voluntary and allows students to practice several Common Core reading standards. These include fluency, expression, public speaking, and more! Learn how the challenge works and download a free rubric and parent letter in this post!

Creating Reading Stars

During reading month, we created reading stars. This was a school-wide activity called Reading Star that the students looked forward to every year. It encouraged