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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Games for Virtual Meetings

Let’s talk about fun games for virtual meetings, especially since many teachers and students are going to using remote learning this fall instead of going back to school in person! There are so many fun games and activities, and they are great for keeping kids engaged and building classroom community!

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Back to School Math Review – Digital!

I don’t usually do this… but I think a lot of your students might need a digital back to school math review! This summer I got worried about those kiddos who have been out of the school buildings since March and that they may have more “learning loss or “summer

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Resources for Digital Seat Work

This year, many of us are going to either be in school, with 1-1 devices, or  hybrid or remote, but regardless you might be looking for great resources for digital seat work! Now in the past, seat work might remind you of Ramona the Pest by Beverly Clearly (the kindergartener

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