Building Home School Connections During Remote Learning

  It’s tough to do everything else you’re supposed to be doing as teacher right now, as well as building home -school connections during remote learning. Here are some ideas that you can implement. They will help to nurture relationships and connections with students’ parents and family members/guardians when you

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Time Management Tips for Remote Teaching

This school year is NO JOKE. At my school some teachers are doing hybrid teaching, but two at each grade level are teaching fully remotely. After doing fully remote teaching last spring, I have done a lot of troubleshooting with how to manage my time. To help, I have some

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Books to use for Teaching Immigration

I’m here today to share with you some wonderful books for teaching immigration! Immigration is a dense topic but at my school in Massachusetts, it is required to be taught in second grade. I spent many years looking for high quality, helpful trade books to support my students. Here are

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What are Digital Task Cards?

Task cards, the classroom favorite for many teachers during the last 5-7 years, have gone digital. I have actually been creating and using Digital Task Cards for several years but with the school closures in March, teachers everywhere have been trying them. But  what if you aren’t familiar with them

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Ten Tips for Teaching Reading Online

Well, the pandemic is still in full force! Most of us are teaching online, at least to some students or on some days. Let me help by sharing ten tips for teaching reading online with you! GENERAL TIPS 1. Go Old School Yes, there are tons of technology that you

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Books to Use When Teaching Parts of Speech

Books to Teach Parts of Speech I like to find as many ways as possible to make things fun in school. Teaching some topics can be a little blah, so I love using books to teach parts of speech! The following images can all be clicked on and you can

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How do Interactive Notebooks Keep Students Engaged?

How Interactive Notebooks Keep Students Engaged     INTERACTIVE It’s in the title! They are interactive and kids are not just reading and checking things off or writing a one word answer. Let’s peek at an example. Here in this activity for types of sentences, students cut out the flap

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Dos and Don’ts of Teaching Phonics

Teaching phonics can be overwhelming, especially for newer teachers, those of you who just changed grade level, or if you don’t have a program in place. So, to help, let’s talk the do’s and don’t of teaching phonics! DON’TS WHEN TEACHING PHONICS  Let’s go over the don’ts first! Don’t be

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Teaching SEL During the Pandemic

Things in our world are certainly stressful, aren’t they? And many of us are going to focus on teaching SEL during the pandemic. our students (and us teachers) need social emotional learning  more than ever. I decided to use this space today to talk about some tools, resources, and ideas

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What are Boom Cards?

With all of the digital learning and remote learning, you may have heard of BOOM cards or Boom Decks… and you might be wondering, what are Boom cards? Should I be using them? Are they user-friendly and will they help me? I have the answers to your questions here! WHAT

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