Tag: Strategies

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.

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

The Common Core State Standards reference several "different" strategies for addition and subtraction, but when you really research them, you discover that there are really only three strategies. In this post, I teach you about the split strategy, the jump strategy, and the shortcut strategy. Get all of the details here

Understanding Addition & Subtraction Strategies

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

Throwback Thursday in the classroom? Why not?! It provides for the perfect opportunity for - you guessed it! - spiral review! We know how important it is to keep old topics fresh in students' minds, and spiral review is a great way to do that. Make it fun and authentic for students by putting a Throwback Thursday (or maybe Flashback Friday) spin on it!

Review with Throwback Thursday

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

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

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

Do you hate the KWL chart? Me too! That's why I use this RAN Chart with every opportunity I get, because I think it's a much better nonfiction strategy! Click through to read how the RAN - Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction - chart works.

A Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction Strategy

I hate the KWL. I’m sorry if you are a huge fan of it, but any variation of it, I just hate. I don’t know

Every teacher wants to actively involve students in lessons and activities, but sometimes that idea gets lost in translation. This activity that allows students to make the questions is a sure-fire way to actively involve them and get them engaged in learning! Read how I did this in my own classroom in this post.

Actively Involve Students with Question Making

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