7 Engaging Ways to Teach Cause and Effect in 2nd and 3rd Grade If you have ever listened to a group of seven-year-olds, you already know they are naturally obsessed with the word “why.” Every single thing that happens requires an immediate explanation! Teaching cause and effect in 2nd and
Science of Reading Phonics Activities for Small Groups Are you ready to kick your phonics instruction into high gear and see your students genuinely excited about word work? We have all watched a student stare at a word, skip the letters, and just guess based on the picture or initial
Boost Map Skills Now with 7 Engaging, Hands-on Activities Have you ever handed out a flat, black-and-white worksheet of a map, only to watch your students stare blankly at it like they’ve never seen anything like it before? Let’s be honest, paper-and-pencil fill-in activities aren’t always enough to make geography
How Interactive Notebooks Help Students Retain Learning Have you ever looked at a stack of student writing, spotted the exact same punctuation error you taught yesterday, and wondered if anything is actually sticking in their brains? We have all been there, staring at a sea of student work and wishing
Closing the Gap: 10 Phonemic Awareness Skills That Lead to Reading Success Teachers, we all know that moment when a student suddenly “cracks the code” and reading starts to click, but getting them there requires consistent, targeted daily practice. However, as busy teachers, finding the time to learn about and
Why Students Don’t Catch Their Own Writing Mistakes (And What Helps) You can see it right? That student who can perfectly identify a capital letter on a worksheet turns in a story with lots of writing mistakes – for example, every sentence starts with a lowercase letter. It’s easy to
👉🏻 Must-have Tools For New Second and Third Grade Teachers You know that feeling in the last week of summer when your to-do list is a mile long and you’re pretty sure you’ve forgotten at least five major things? Well, whether you’re a new second or third grade teacher (or
Get Reluctant Students Writing Now: 10 Writing Prompts that Get Their Pencils Moving We’ve all seen it during writing class: your student is staring at a blank page for ten minutes with their pencil stuck in mid-air. It’s frustrating when you know they have plenty to say, but they’re completely
Transform Your Sunday Nights: Reusable Resources vs. One-Time Printables The Sunday scaries usually kick in big time when you realize your planned activities for the week require a printer, a stack of paper, and an extra hour of prep you just don’t have. We all want our students to be
➡️ 7 Crucial Ways To Keep Kids Reading This Summer Do you want to keep kids reading books all summer? It doesn’t have to feel like a battle! The goal is to turn reading into something they actually look forward to between trips to the pool or the park (or