Free Printable preposition game for toddlers and preschoolers to help develop gross motor skills, fine motor skills, vocabulary and visual discrimination.
Puzzle-solving genius kids form a pint-size crime-fighting Mod Squad in this month's Backseat Book Club pick. Trenton Lee Stewart, author of The Mysterious Benedict Society, takes questions from young readers about the book's twists, turns and creative conundrums.
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Here is a list of my most favorite ESL teaching resources: books, websites and simply products that make my life as an ESL teacher easier!
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Check out these fun activities from Award Winning Author/Illustrator Jarett Lerner to do at home or in the classsroom. Includes comics, drawing, and more.
K-1 POETRY UNIT I love teaching poetry to kindergarten and first grade students! Even though I have this labeled as Unit 8 in my Writing Series , I actually teach poetry throughout the entire year. We follow the same routine and students look forward to our poetry week every month.
Whether via classroom discussions, analysis of written text, higher-order questioning, or other strategies, learn and share ways to help students go deeper with their thinking.
This engaging worksheet will help your students practice reading words with the "bossy R."
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You can reuse these recycling anchor charts year after year!
This post will include several activities and ideas including free printables you might wish to try for teaching prefixes.
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I LOVE saving figurative language until June - it's such a fun language unit ... and perfect for our "dreaming of summer brains". We finished up our EQAO testing mid week, and this onomatopoeia activity was the perfect break from testing. How fun is that??? Students chose two contrasting colours - one for the background and one for the word and border "bursting out of the page". They also needed newspaper (cut just a fraction smaller that the "bursting out of the page border" and glued the newspaper on top. They glued their word on top of that (we had brainstormed a lot of onomatopoeia words, but for some reason most of them chose SPLAT for their word). I also had them do a little shading under their letters for that little extra POP (see, I know some onomatopoeia words, too). ;) I had seen this awesome idea on Pinterest and followed it back to Artisan des Arts. Her examples are FANTASTIC!! We also wrote simile poems this week. I found a little template HERE for the students to use for their rough copies. When students were finished their templates, I had them write out their good copies, and illustrate a few lines with a small image. I hung these up, too ... LOVING our bulletin board switch up ... even this late in the school year!!! (I have two of these "smART class" bulletin boards side by side in the classroom. 15 more school days left ... I think I can ... I think I can ... Happy Friday!!!
Here are some division games that will have your students playing and learning! Also, as a bonus, find great division activities and book recommendations.
Are you looking for some activities for teaching suffixes? Check out these free materials including activities for Google Slides, videos, anchor charts,
Are you looking for some activities for teaching suffixes? Check out these free materials including activities for Google Slides, videos, anchor charts,
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by Jarrett Lerner I’ve been wanting to make an activity book for years now. Something that could help kids – and kids-at-heart! – explore and develop their creativity, and turn to as a source for r…
Explore the human body with fun and exciting activities and experiments. I have compiled a great list for you to choose from!
Resources, tips, and materials to help you, help children with autism
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These ideas give active reading a whole new meaning.
You can’t get the most out of university without learning to think critically. It isn't easy, but with our handy guide, we’ll have you thinking up a storm in no time!
“It’s not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart.” ~ Howard Gardner Did you know that there are at least eight different potential pathways to lea…
Check out these games and activities for ESL pronunciation, along with worksheets and lesson plans. Help your students with pron today!
Fun With Firsties, probability, math lesson, worksheets, assessment, activities
Check out these activities for teaching interjections including mini posters, Youtube songs, games, suggested books to use, and more.
This FREE handout is a great activity for warm-ups or even early finishers. This handout was inspired by the book Beautiful Oops! by Barney Saltzberg. Here is the BLANK version. This is a good opti…
This blog post explores innovative and engaging lesson plans for any novel unit... ranging from task cards to book instagram pages to a novel podcast project. Student choice is key here, and students can find something they would like to complete in order to convey their reading, comprehension, and
Anger is probably the #1 issue the kids I work with deal with. In this post you will find many great links, worksheets, and resources for addressing anger in children of all ages. One of my favorit…
Guessing games are a great way to practice speaking, critical thinking and vocabulary building in ESL classrooms starting from young learners through adults. Whether you are an English teacher or a parent trying to improve your child's vocabulary in a first or second language, guessing games are a MUST! Here's where to start: Ages 3-4:
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Have you ever heard a teacher say, “Just sound out the word,” to a struggling young speller? Or maybe you’ve said those words to a student yourself? This simple strategy frequentl…
This post will include several activities and ideas including free printables you might wish to try for teaching prefixes.
A Taxonomy Tree: A Bloom's Revised Taxonomy Graphic
This post contains affiliate links and if you click through to make a purchase I will receive a small compensation at no cost to you. What an incredible novel this is! My students were intensely interested in and engaged with Refugee by Alan Gratz. It’s an incredibly moving book with so many opportunities for great […]
Morphology instruction is a powerful strategy for improving vocabulary and comprehension. This post shares several morphology activities.
