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
Act Now – Empower Students with Writing Choice Imagine a writing block where you actually have a second to breathe because every student is already working, pencils scribbling away. No one is staring blankly at the ceiling, and you haven’t heard “I’m done” after two minutes (or “I don’t know
Don’t Miss Out: 8 Top Reading Comprehension Games and Activities! We’ve all been there: a student reads through a paragraph with perfect accuracy, but the second they finish, they have absolutely no clue what they just read. It’s that classic hurdle that can make teaching reading comprehension feel like you’re
What are the stages of phonological awareness? You could probably name examples off the top of your head, but do you know their development order and therefore in what order to teach them?