Learn how to easily integrate science into reading and writing with meaningful literacy-based activities to best help your students master science.
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When some students are asked to explain whether or not an author has fully defended the ideas written in text, some students do not know what to say. This chart will help. It lists and describes the different types of fallacies that writers and speakers make.Click Here To Access This Freebie
The personal financial literacy math standards include challenging vocabulary and concepts. Use these 5 tools to make it easier and more fun for kids!
Hello Everyone! What a great day to start a study on clouds!! Dark clouds this morning releasing a deluge of rain! By 1:00 beautiful clear sky with just a few cirrus clouds! Perfect example of our ever changing skies. I'll share our Cloud Unit in a second, but first I wanted to show some pics of our whole group math lesson. We are continuing our study of place value. After all the activities we did last week, it was time to see how all of this fits in relationship to other numbers. I pulled out our bigger than life 100 board and handed out some mystery picture clues. Each clue described a number in place value (tens and ones). The kids took turns putting their cards on the number for which their clue stood. When we finished putting all the clues down, a cloud was revealed! Use your imagination! It looks like a cloud, right??? The kids loved working together to create it!! I'm not even sure they realized they were growing their number sense!!! I did put together a little integrated cloud unit. We are going to try to get most of this in this week!! The unit also includes some poetry, another science activity and more!! You can get it if you click HERE!! Stay tuned for more cloud fun later in the week! Until then, have a wonderful week!! Thanks for stopping by for a peek!! Joyfully! Nancy
Would you like to decorate your classroom with fun, hand-drawn anchor charts/posters? Do you simply not have the time to get them done? Well, you have come to the perfect place! I love making these engaging and appealing anchor charts. I also can draw/create any other topic you would like, just contact me directly and ask! My students absolutely love these posters and references them every day. Many of them are visual learners, so the colorful images really help them connect and remember what they have learned. This particular anchor chart is for readers/writers practicing prefixes and suffixes. It helps students see base words and adding prefixes/suffixes to them. The pug puppy helps my students see the separation of the base words with their prefix/suffix and they have so much fun with it! It will be approximately 32 x 24 inches, and will be a copy of my original. **These will be copies unless asked otherwise for a custom poster. They are not laminated, and are printed on normal, anchor chart paper. I ship these out ASAP after being ordered, but please keep in mind once shipped, it is outside of my control. Therefore, if shipping does not meet your expectations, I highly encourage you to please reach out to me first, and we have always been able to work something out to make up for anything that may have occurred after I have sent your package, thanks so much!! Hope you love it :)
Teaching ideas and activities to support the personal financial literacy standards in middle school!
Financially savvy kids are future leaders!
WHAT DO WE TEACH IN STRUCTURED LITERACY? We know that phonics instruction is critical to supporting all students including those with dyslexia and other reading disabilities but the problem is R…
Financially savvy kids are future leaders!
Want to know the perfect recipe for some spooky math practice? Witches and algebra, of course!
Make a big impact on students' long-term learning with the four most powerful tools backed by cognitive science research : retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving, and feedback-driven metacognition. Access free downloads and our four favorite teaching strategies for each Power Tool.
Algebra resources for teaching and learning mathematics. Fun and visual resources for maths teachers and kids.
Financially savvy kids are future leaders!
Financially savvy kids are future leaders!
A persuasive writing and speaking activity for kids focused on identifying propaganda while watching TV.
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This Reading Comprehension Worksheet - Amphibians is for teaching reading comprehension. Use this reading comprehension story to teach reading comprehension.
Looking for an easy and fun teaching idea for your students to practice their vocabulary words? My students loved it and never realized they were learning! This strategy can work for any grade, from kindergarten to high school!
Structured Literacy is an approach to reading instruction that is explicit and systematic, with a focus on the structure of the English language.
I have no doubt that every one of us has seen something odd in our textbooks—a name, an illustration or a graph that looks just a bit too odd or completely bizarre for it to be in a textbook.
Are you looking for a poster that shows the 4 different types of slope? In this post I link a free slope poster to download and add to an algebra word wall. Recently updated slope guy with a color and also black and white version.
Teaching schwa-A vowels can feel tricky, but it really isn't! This article will help you discover some useful ways how to teach schwa
Use these sites with the Financial Literacy Unit to learn how to manage your money and avoid some common pitfalls. Page 1: A Reality Check Page 2: New York Fed Financial Awareness Video Competition Page 3 and 4: Debt Calculator (requires Flash) or CNN Money Debt Calculator or Credit Karma Debt Calculator (do not need Flash) Page 5: Student Debt Data Debt Calculator Page 6: PayScale College Report Fast Facts Page 9: Check Writing Basics Balancing Checkbook Tips Page 11: Compounding Calculator Page 12: Compound Interest Calculator Additional Resources: Wells Fargo Hands on Banking
I’ve been spending some serious amounts of time this summer leading conversations around the country focused on the integration of social studies and literacy. And for the last few years, I…
Have you taught your student the C/K Rule? Since ‘c’ and ‘k’ both make the same sound sometimes, it can cause confusion for our young students.
Structured Literacy is an approach to reading instruction that is explicit and systematic, with a focus on the structure of the English language.
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The FLOSS rule is a spelling generalization used to teach students when the final consonant is doubled. Check out tips for teaching it!
Anchor chart inspiration for elementary teachers. Use my Not-So-Pinteresty Anchor Charts for Reading, Math, Grammar, and Writing.
Reading strategies useful in every content area include Questioning the text, Visualization, and using Context Clues to infer meaning.
These 4th grade anchor charts reinforce concepts for reading, science, math, behavior management, environmentalism, and more!
It's hard to fit it all into your schedule! Here's my 3-step process that makes it easier to create your K-2 structured literacy schedule.
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…
Main and subordinate clauses explained for primary-school parents, including details of the connectives used to link dependent clauses.
