Do you want your kids to be excited to learn from the Bible? Bible journaling with kids is an exciting way for them to memorize and interact with scripture. Kids reap so many benefits from Bible journaling and it’s really an enjoyable activity! Bible journaling will encourage kids to spend time with the Lord. As
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Are you looking for board game bulletin board ideas? If you like the idea of a board gamed themed room or you are just looking for unique bulletin board ideas, here are some favorites! Teachers are
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Your elementary students are guaranteed to love these vowel songs and dances to work on their phonics skills.
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Title - All of your bulletin boards should have some title of sorts. Rather than just calling this your “Reading Focus Wall” consider giving it a more
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Vocabulary instruction is so critical in today’s classroom! A vast vocabulary will help students to become better readers and writers. Vocabulary is also essential to their performance on standardized tests. Helping kids to develop their vocabulary is time that is well spent in a busy classroom. I have developed a routine to teach new vocabulary
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A few weeks ago I had the idea to incorporate sports into a vocabulary review. Many of my students play basketball on a team and/or play at recess, so I incorporated basketball into our review. My son received this over the door basketball set for Christmas so we brought it to school one day. He told me to "make sure they don't break it, but you CAN show them how to dunk it." Although I didn't share my dunking skills, my fifth graders LOVED this! I knew they'd notice the goal as soon as they walked in so I wrote a little message beside the board: "Are you ready for vocabulary basketball?" It was a fun way to review vocabulary in an engaging way. We split into two teams. I had the vocabulary words written on the board and I'd call out definitions. If they told me the correct word, they earned 1 point for their team. Then, they could earn 2 points or 3 points by making a basket. I had ribbon on the floor to show what would count as 2 points vs. 3 points. They had a BLAST! Most of our vocabulary words come from our read alouds, but most of the words in this unit were student generated. I kept a sheet of paper that students could add words to as they read independently. If they found a word they didn't know or one that they thought would be a good vocabulary word, they could write it down. Vocabulary review - basketball style - was a HIT!
Hi Friends…. The past two weeks we have been working on Prefixes and Suffixes in our second-grade classroom! My kiddos were having such a good time brainstorming words with prefixes and then figuring out the meaning. They really had a strong grasp of the concept… I was pretty impressed. After our whole … Prefixes, Suffixes and a FREEBIE Just for YOU! Read More »
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I'm always trying to think about new ways to use task cards since we use them so often. My students enjoy them, and they will ALWAYS tell me that they prefer task cards over worksheets. Always. Han
Starting Literacy Centers at the beginning of the year can be challenging but in this blog post I will break down how I do Literacy Centers in my classroom, the mistakes I made, and how to make Literacy Centers run seamlessly in your classroom. First, make sure your Literacy Centers are well organized and have a good variety for the students. I did not do this during my first two years of teaching and it was extremely chaotic. I live by the philosophy "Do it right at the beginning of the year or keep doing it all year." If you set up a great system at the beginning of the year, you will not have to "manage" it all year. For my students I do the following Literacy Centers: Reading Comprehension Vocabulary Writing Reading Response By doing these centers, I can keep them organized and the students always have a variety of activities in their hands. One way to keep your Literacy Center organized is by setting up a rotation. I post the following rotation chart in my classroom (with student names obviously instead of letters.) The students can go look at the rotation chart any time they are confused or have forgotten where they need to be. Grab your own copy of an editable version of this rotation chart below the picture. Editable Center Rotation Sheet Just plug in your student's names and if you need to change the center names you can! NOTE: Please SAVE a copy of this first before you try editing, otherwise it will make you ask for permission. I also keep my centers organized in my classroom. I need the students to be independent when going to get their centers. On Mondays, I spend about 10 minutes going through the centers for the week with the students. If there is a game, we go over the rules and how to play. I believe this step is very important so there are less questions during small group time. (Notice in the rotation above, I am doing small groups during center time.) And I keep all of my centers in this storage tower, in the separate drawers. Any storage will work, but I love this one because the colored drawers repeat in pattern, so I have my students TURN IN their centers to the BOTTOM set of drawers. (For example: If Vocabulary is in the top red drawer, they will turn it into the bottom red drawer.) Simple. (And no, I don't grade all of my centers. These are for practice and I just spot check them from time to time!) Finally, let's talk about the expectation of each center. (All of the following pictures are from my 5th Grade Classroom) Vocabulary Center: In the Vocabulary Center, I want the students to be submerged in 20 words each Six Weeks. That's right, for an entire Six Weeks, they are working on the same 20 words. Really, they only go to Vocabulary once a week though...and each week they have a new activity. By the end of the Six Weeks, the students have mastered 20 new Tier Two Words. By the end of the year, 120 new Tier Two Words...just from Literacy Centers! Reading Response Center: During the Reading Response Center, I want the students reading a book from a selection of books in the center. (These are shorter books and strictly for the purpose of engaging the students!) I choose about 10 books a week to put in a basket in this center. The students choose a book, then read and do the response. We are encouraging students to think about their independent reading when we do the Reading Response Center and most of the time they partner up to work on their discussion skills. Reading Comprehension Center: While in the Reading Comprehension Center, students are reading short passages and answering higher level comprehension questions, or they are completing an activity over a comprehension skill. I don't think students should have a passage each week to read in this center, that doesn't show variety. However, I do think students should be working on those comprehension skills as often as possible! I love giving the students different ways to do this! Writing Center: The writing center allows students to practice multiple types of writing, conventions, and grammar! With a new skill each week, the students are mastering and reviewing important writing concepts that will help during classroom writing. In the end, making sure your students are engaged, learning and having fun is most important. Making that job easy on YOU (the teacher) is next important! Stay organized, keep a variety going, and meet the standards. If you do these things...you will have mastered Literacy Centers. To check out my literacy centers that I use for my students, click the link below that matches your grade level! 2nd Grade 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade (affiliate links are provided for your convenience)
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I recently assigned a one pager final project to my sophomores for their culminating Night project. I wanted to combine as many rigorous ELA content ideas as possible, while also designing a fun project for students that provided them with a bit of choice. This Night one pager project was the perfect way to finish the memoir!
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When I observe teachers, I see this problem more than anything else. If they fixed it, they would notice an instant difference in how well their classes go.
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My students LOVE to use highlighters when we read closely. They are more engaged with the text simply because they are excited to use a different colored highlighter. Don't you love their enthusiasm at this age? :) I love that each color is for a different purpose necessary with Close Reading: Yellow = Good Readers read the DIRECTIONS. Orange = Good Readers learn new VOCABULARY. Blue = Good Readers find CLUES. Pink = Good Readers can PROVE IT. Each label also contains an I Can statement. They go with my Common Core Close Reading Interactive Binder Packs: Close Reading FREEBIE Close Reading - Fall Close Reading- Winter Close Reading - Spring These highlighter labels match the Sharpie brand highlighter 4 color packs, but you could use them with any brand. Please use any of the Avery labels that are compatible with the 5160 format. Special thanks to KG Fonts! If you like this product. please leave me a little feedback/love and come back to purchase other units from my store! ***************************************************************************** Customer Tips: How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: • Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. I value your feedback greatly as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom so I can create more for you. ☺ Be the first to know about my new discounts, freebies and product launches: • Look for the green star next to my store logo and click it to become a follower. Voila! You will now receive email updates about this store. ☺ *****************************************************************************
Whole class novels are still an important part of an English curriculum. Check out this blog post about Teaching Whole Class Novels.
