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Scaffold your instruction with these teaching scaffolding strategies to help bridge readiness and mastery for your elementary students!

Repair those damaged seams with some easy hand sewing methods to make your items good as new. This video demonstrates two different methods depending on whether or not you have access to the inside of the seam.

Matchbook chapter summaries super simple and fun project that you can have your students complete during your next novel study.

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As you start another school year, I’m sure you have a million and one things planned to do with your students. One thing you should definitely take the time to do is set goals with your classroom. They really help set a purpose for ALL of your students and help with building classroom community.

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Middle School ELA Solutions To Reach Every Learner - Differentiated Reading Writing Activities, Lessons, Ideas. Intervention for Reading and Writing

Hello Everyone! I love helping first graders express themselves through writing. For me, the first semester of first grade is all about creating a safe environment for them to feel comfortable putting their thoughts down on paper. We work on all the different ways to incorporate written expression into our day. I just love when one of my little would rather write than do anything else! Well we are now all about making our great writing even better...That means editing. I don't know about you, but it has been my experience that kids do not like going back to fix anything in their writing! Does anyone truly love editing? Hence the challenge, making editing engaging. After researching and trying different things and I think I finally came up with something that the kids can understand, use, and grow. We compared different pieces and rated them. We will use them as rubrics to compare our own writing. We learned about a few first grade friendly editing marks. We modeled editing on an old piece. Then we received out "Editing Super Visors," and special editing pens. I love to have my kids peer edit, so we got with our writing partners right away and picked a piece on which to work our editing magic. TaDah!! Engagement! Our Editing Super Visors I did put all these ideas into a micro unit about editing and rubrics. A quick set of printable rubrics with rating numbers for your own quick print and go micro unit, CLICK HERE!! Or CLICK HERE for a new and improved version of the unit!! I hope you can use some of this!! As always, if you see any typos or anything that should be fixed (or edited!! Ha Ha!) please don't hesitate to holler at me!! Thanks for stopping by for a peek! Stay tuned for more first grade fun!! Joyfully! Nancy

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I am working on some quick assessment sheets for key concepts in art class. I came across this famous lines handout from The Bees Knees Cousin. I’m also not too big on worksheets and we rarely do them in art class, but they can be good for some fine motor practice and assessment. I liked the famous lines handout and tried to download it from Scribd, but I couldn’t get it to work. So I ended up making my own … Read more... →

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Kids love balls and I use them to teach concepts, in team building, during rehearsals and more! Here's my ten ways to use balls in the music class room.

Do you ever wish you could just capture the thoughts of your students? Now you can find out just what they wonder with this free wonder card!

Tattling vs. Reporting - Does tattling drive you bonkers? Here are some fun classroom behavior management worksheets (picture versions too!) to remind kids the difference between tattling and reporting. Kids will cut, sort, and paste situations as being either tattling or reporting. It is a great way to remind students of the classroom rules and expectations. GREAT for back to school! You could even do it as an interactive whole group activity and act out/talk about each situation with your students so they understand the differences. I have heard from Kindergarten teachers all the way to 5th grade teachers that said these activities really helped their students a lot with tattling! Read some of the feedback to see for yourself! :) I also included a bonus cut and paste of Good Choices vs. Poor Choices. Enjoy! *ADDED*: I have added 3 new pages that have picture support versions of the sorts! There is 1 Tattling vs. Reporting with pictures and 2 Good vs. Poor Choices sorts. If you have already purchased this, simply redownload to get the new goodies! :) These go great to read along with the tattling books shown on this post: Read Aloud Books by Behavior That is a great list of books to read for each behavior and I love the ones on that list for tattling! You may also like: Chatty Class Classroom Management Tools for Talkative Students This includes so many fun resources from my 25 Chatty Class Classroom Management Strategies for Overly Talkative Students blog post that help with blurting and voice levels!