This post explains why English spelling doesn't make sense and gives you tips on how to learn English spelling once and for all so that your written English improves.
In this post, you'll learn how to make some powerful protection spells from enemies. From a spell bottle to simple incantations, keep them away!
As this the end of the school year is getting closer and closer my kids are still having trouble with writing complete sentences. My group last year really enjoyed writing...this group not so much. They think it's boring and I'm lucky to get a sentence or two out of them. Today I tried to take it back to the basics of expanding sentences and encouraged them to use adjectives and adverbs. I gave them a piece of paper and had them fold back and forth until they had 4 rectangles on their page. I gave them a short sentence and they wrote it on the outside of their foldable. When we were expanding our sentences I only gave them clues such as lets add an adjective to describe the dog. Lets write an adverb to show how the dog ran, etc.... This was their end result. I will definitely take it! We did one of these every day for a week and they can use them as examples when working on writing independently. How do you encourage your kids writing? Looking for other writing ideas? Check out my Reading and Writing Pinterest board!
Spelling practice doesn't have to be boring. Here are 18 of our favorite hands-on spelling activities that we use to liven up our spelling lessons.
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Play spelling games with your learners to make learning so much more fun! Check out this list of 100 fun spelling games for kids!
Teaching Spellings Bundle Spellings of EA, URE and AST Words Worksheets Bundle This download is for 3 worksheets to teach ‘ast’ ‘ure’ and ‘ea’ word spellings. They have fun activities and ways to test your class without being boring. The worksheets in this bundle are available separately here: EA Worksheets . URE Worksheets . AST Worksheets . Thanks for looking. ***************************************************************************** My other English products: Persuasive Writing Complete Unit . Dialogues and Play Scripts Unit of Work. Instruction Writing Unit . ***************************************************************************** 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. ☺ *****************************************************************************
There are so many ways you can help students learn their spelling words while providing engaging, fun lessons and activities during remote learning.
There are so many ways you can help students learn their spelling words while providing engaging, fun lessons and activities during remote learning.
This revision aid gives helps you to recap some of the most important literary devices for your English GCSE in a fun way. Forget the boring process of reading through dull notes. This crossword will help you to identify literary devices and make sure that you can spell them the right way. If you can get through this puzzle, you know you can name some of the most important devices for your English exams! Of course, just remember to keep revising! This crossword is a great part of your revision, but you will need to keep reminding yourself of these names so you don't forget them. Check out my other resources for more ways to keep them in your head. All answers are provided on a separate PDF so that you can check over your progress at the end.
This post explains why English spelling doesn't make sense and gives you tips on how to learn English spelling once and for all so that your written English improves.
My son started Kindergarten this year and has a list of sight words he is required to memorize. It can be quite boring and frustrating for kids....so I am trying to search for ways to make learning this a little more fun. My son had a lot of fun learning his sight words by playing
post contains affiliate links This weekend Milo is having a very belated birthday party (his actual birthday was back in May, but we waited until now for the party for assorted reasons too boring to get into). He just turned eleven so, naturally, he’s having a Harry Potter party. Next week I’ll be back with a full recap of the … Continue reading →
Let's face it: It's HARD to teach grammar! Make teaching verbs fun with verb worksheets and activities that are relevant and engaging?
Is spelling word practice boring? Does it take up too much time and isn't effective? This routine is fun and engaging. Your primary students will love it!
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Let's face it: It's HARD to teach grammar! Make teaching verbs fun with verb worksheets and activities that are relevant and engaging?
There are so many ways you can help students learn their spelling words while providing engaging, fun lessons and activities during remote learning.
If your students struggle with grammar or find it boring, you’ll love these free grammar websites that can serve as a complete curriculum, a great complement to your studies, or a fun, occasional break. I’ve reviewed dozens of grammar websites (so you don’t have to) and have determined that these are the best of the …
When I went into school on the first day of the holidays I was so excited to finally be in what was now my classroom and get things how I wanted. Boy did I did that enthusiasm drain away when I got in there! Here is what I found.... When I saw the state of the room I was, to be honest, ever so slightly horrified. I thought how could it be left like this for me to sort out? I did what I could that day and went in the next day to find that all my chairs had been washed but there was even more on the floor! Again, I did what I could but couldn't face it so thought I'd leave the cleaners to it that week and when I went back in the next week it was a lot better, thank god! I've done what I can with the room so far, I've covered my display boards and put up my obligatory VCOP display... The plan is that the children will be 'writing detectives' and will have to search their work (and others during peer assessment) to decide if they've done the best job they could and where they could improve. The bit in the middle is our boring word jail, we'll add in boring words as the weeks go on. Those are stuck there forever and can't be used in writing. All the other words are on velcro so they can come down for the children to use. There are blank kapows and clouds for the children to add in their own suggestions. And a birthday display... Yes I know, bit of a cop out but it helps fill one of my million or so boards... ok there's 8 but still, that's a lot! This will probably get replaced with their work at some point but until then, it'll help me to not forget anyone's birthday! I've got some work from the transition morning that I might put up on a board as well for when the children come back so that they've got something of their own on the wall. Here are a few other photos of my classroom. Ah beloved Ikea! Those magazine files are one for each day, my planning, photocopying etc. will all go in that and those coloured boxes were from Ikea too, absolute bargain! Helped me organise the masses of staples, paperclips, pins etc. that were in my drawer. Cutlery trays also from Ikea to organise coloured pencils into. I've decided not to put them on the individual tables as they just end up a mess so going to trial this system instead. The children would just end up going around each table looking for a specific colour, distracting everyone so thought this could solve that. We'll have to see how it goes. I'm sure every teacher has their weird bug bear that they just can't shake off... mine's sharp pencils. I didn't realise how obvious I was about it until my placement teacher wrote in my leaving card that I'd be a great teacher and that she was sure that soon I'd have my own classroom with very sharp pencils! I don't know why but blunt pencils just annoy me, especially as the children then faff about sharpening them when they should be working. So there'll always be a pot of sharp pencils and my daily PA will have the job of sharpening pencils, which they'll love as I have an electric pencil sharpener. Table storage was a tricky one but again, Ikea had all the answers! The plastic tubs were only £1 each and are the perfect size for storing the whiteboards. The metal contains are actually plant pots and are great for stationary, I've actually cut out cardboard dividers to separate the pencils, whiteboard pens and scissors now and they work really well. Drawer labels - these took FOREVER! I stupidly designed them myself as I didn't like anything else I could find that would fit my strangely sized drawers. I like them though. So, that's my classroom, or as much as I've sorted so far anyway. I'm still struggling with the layout of the tables because of the shape of my room - it's an L shape with a long thin upper bit. The only way I can see to do it is to have grouped tables but even then some are quite far from the board. Any suggestions? Let me know!
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Looking for free grammar games to make teaching fun? This list of games for teaching parts of speech, punctuation, and writing will provide fun all year!
Spelling practice doesn't have to be boring. Here are 18 of our favorite hands-on spelling activities that we use to liven up our spelling lessons.
Anchor chart inspiration for elementary teachers. Use my Not-So-Pinteresty Anchor Charts for Reading, Math, Grammar, and Writing.
A fun way to send positive messages to your students. This cute vinyl wall decal uses your school wall clock as one of the letters to spell out YOU MATTER! Dress up boring classroom walls with this YOU MATTER! decal in a color to match your classroom or school mascot. The decal includes the "O" in YOU so that it can be used without a clock if you choose.
My first grader has a spelling list of 10 words each week that she has to learn. As a teacher, I was always on the giving end of these ...
Sometimes ready-made trash organizer bins are just not the right size, material, finish or color. With our water resistant routed stickers you can place them on the trash receptacles that work best for you! Maybe you already have a bin that is perfect- you may obtain a second one just like it and with these stickers you will have your own custom made recycling center. Forget hand writing them with a sharpie or printing puny boring rectangles of the words spelled out on a label maker. Our custom routed circle icons are modern, clear and easy to spot so everything goes in the right place. We use Oracal 651 for all our decals. The black and white vinyl is rated for outdoor use of up to 6 years, metallic finishes will last 4 years, and other colors about 3 years. When used indoors, it will improve this durability.
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Since our state is going to the Common Core State Standards {Reading and Language Arts only this year}, I thought I'd read up! As my team and I were going through the standards we noticed that our 1st graders need to not only be able to recognize the sight words but spell/write them correctly too! BAM! That's when it hit me! I had seen an AMAZING post by Growing Kinders about a sight word password. PLEASE go to her blog and check it out...she's one of my favorites!!! I remade the poster to match my classroom {it's my OCD}. Here's the breakdown. Post a laminated "Today's Password" poster outside of your classroom. Each day, with a wet erase marker, write a different password on the poster and as your kiddos enter the room, they need to whisper it to you! Well since they have to be able to write it also, I made a "Password of the Day Book". After they whisper it to me, they need to go write that word in their book! Clipart from DJ Inkers and used with permission from djinkers.com In our 1st grade we have 5 sight words a week that go home with them to practice as homework. At the beginning of the week, I introduce the words and tape them to the board {I don't put them on my word wall yet} We also practice them everyday in class. I LOVE another one of Growing Kinders' ideas to practice sight words {HERE} Also, for more word wall/sight word activities go {HERE}! At the end of the week I {with the help of my firsties} post them on our word wall that looks like this: {source} I love this word wall because it's mobile. I rotate classrooms every 9 weeks! The borders are from this cute new website I found called Print Candee Many of their products can be used without a commercial license, but make sure you read their terms of use.
There are so many ways you can help students learn their spelling words while providing engaging, fun lessons and activities during remote learning.
