Check out a comprehensive methodology of running your primary literacy studio including ideas for crafting, composing, and reflection.
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Looking for activities to teach teens financial literacy? In this post I share some of the activities I use to teach my consumer math class, including a few few resources to get started teaching financial literacy today.
Several of my students love to play Dominotes so I decided to make a slightly "larger" version. The bigger the better, right? So with t...
Art Educator Interview with Alie Edwards from Creation Space, a family-oriented art studio in Edmonton, Alberta, where children focus on the process.
Lots of books, songs, and activities to build literacy-rich circle times with toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarteners.
Zach's Place, a reggio inspired-studio in the center of a montessori school
If you teach “summarizing” in your classroom, you know that it is a REALLY tricky skill. Students often struggle to know what the most important details are…sometimes write down every single thing that happens…and usually miss that “heart of the story” piece. Because it is one of our assessed skills all year, I knew I […]
This wooden holder is ideal for the safe and stable use of 50ml glass paint jars with lids. Sold with or without jars.
Joana has created public art that has been seen across New York City, as well as in Lubbock, TX and Raleigh, NC.
Now that our realistic fiction story planning is complete and we are ready to start drafting, I wanted to make sure my students had a better understanding how dialogue, how to use it (judiciously, of course!), and how it can help tell the I start my dialogue studies with making sure students are clear about […]
For K-1 students, centers are one of the most developmentally appropriate things that you can do for them. Let me give you the break down on each of my 5 centers, and how I manage them!
Today I wanted to see how well my students were internalizing our perimeter and area explorations, so I gave them a cooperative task to complete. The timing was perfect as I was missing 5 students for early spring break starters–so it seemed like a great plan for a Friday before break! Area and Perimeter Problem […]
Find literacy activities and printables you can use to explore the topic ‘My Special Name’ with your children based on the book 'Chrysanthemum' by K.Henkes.
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I was so pumped to start my second year as a TAB Teacher. My first year, I was scared and held back a little. I was nervous that mad chaos...
Looking for fun ideas to teach Sight Words for Kindergarten? These awesome hands on centers and worksheets work on Fry’s first 25 sight words. Children get to build, recognize and read sight words in a variety of fun ways. The engaging activities keep it from getting too repetative, and encourage fine motor skills in addition […]
Paintings and drawings inspired by the Spanish artist Joan Miro always have fabulous results with the kids. These are done by my home sch...
One of our Alphabet Curriculum Downloads. Here is what you get! 26 Alphabet Watches to color and cut out. Prints a total of 6 pages. The worksheets were designed by Annette Sutherland, owner of Teach at Daycare in Arkansas City, KS. Please see our other great educational items in our store and thank you for visiting.
From my Orff classes and “Elementaria” by Keetman, I created what are called RHYTHMIC BUILDING BRICKS out of these foam cubes I found at Target in the $1 section. I used a Sharpie to d…
If you teach “summarizing” in your classroom, you know that it is a REALLY tricky skill. Students often struggle to know what the most important details are…sometimes write down every single thing that happens…and usually miss that “heart of the story” piece. Because it is one of our assessed skills all year, I knew I […]
In this lesson, students will learn the basics of typography. They will be able to choose the "correct" or most effective font for their designs.
Learn from these examples of scene trackers for writers how to track the 7 essential elements of plot in the scenes from your novel & improve your writing
Incorporate art into literacy by reading this fun art book and then follow it with our paper people chain activity. Think red!
Teaching synthesizing? Here are some great books for teaching synthesis that can help you model and practice it with your kids or students. Synthesizing is one of those comprehension strategies that may seem a little abstract. Simply put, synthesis just means your thinking changes as you read and add more information from the text. You may ... Read More about Great Books for Teaching Synthesizing
Hello! My name is Shelly Smith and I am a National Board Certified Teacher in Elementary Literacy. My students get results that are much higher than our district/state average! I believe much of it is due to the way in which literacy is taught in my classroom. Welcome to my Literacy Studio! I believe you will be very pleased with this unique approach to literacy and especially how it covers ALL of the 5th grade literacy CCSS. Socratic Seminars are the backbone to this approach along with the interpretive questions. Students use text-based evidence while responding in their Socratic Seminars and in their written responses. I have learned through my years of teaching that my classroom curriculum needs to be rigorous, engaging, and it needs to meet the CCSS. This novel study is just that! I originally learned about using interpretive questioning with Socratic Seminars during my time teaching in Tacoma, Washington. It proved very successful in my classroom's proficiency! This unit extends what I did in Tacoma with the district’s basal to how I teach now using novels. Each student has a copy of the novel we are reading. I used DonorChoose.org in order to outfit my classroom with 25 copies of A Wrinkle in Time along with other highly rich, classic novels. One reason I like this whole class approach is that all my students are being exposed to 5th grade reading material, vocabulary, and the 5th grade CCSS. My lower reading students are set up to be successful with 5th grade text because they have heard me read the text before they read it with a partner, a more competent other. In this unit you will find: 1. How to use this resource in your classroom 2. The Socratic Seminar: research base and strategy in practice 3. Teaching vocabulary with novel studies 4. Scripted lesson examples 5. Reading response notebook examples from my classroom 6. Common Core standard alignment 7. 12 Lesson plans 8. 1 Bonus lesson Key words: fifth grade, fifth grade reading, fifth grade literature, fifth grade literature standards, fifth grade common core, fifth grade common core literature standards, fifth grade reading unit, fifth grade novel study, fifth grade all standards, common core, common core literature standards, novel study, reading unit, complete reading unit, A Wrinkle in Time, A Wrinkle in Time unit, A Wrinkle in Time reading unit, A Wrinkle in Time novel study, socratic seminar, unit, lesson plans, reading lesson plans, fifth grade reading lesson plans, fifth grade unit. Let the higher order thinking/learning begin!
