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The 6 Best Books to Teach Point of View
Point of view is a big standard to cover! This standard can be tricky if you don’t have the right materials. It is important to
Best Books for Compare and Contrast (Fiction)
Teaching students to compare and contrast is an important cross-curricular skill. Furthermore, the application of this skill, specifically to fiction stories, can greatly improve a
3 Main Topic and Main Idea Virtual Teaching Ideas
This blog post highlights the newest video from my weekly YouTube series. This is the third installment of Teaching Tips in 12 Minutes or Less!
Tips for Virtual Text Features Activities
Whether you’re teaching virtually, or just looking for engaging digital ideas to teach text features, you’re in luck! This blog post highlights a video I
All About EVENTS- Teaching Events to Students
For today’s Story Elements Study, we are going to focus on teaching events. If you are interested in ideas for teaching events in your elementary
All About SETTING- Story Elements Study
In this Story Elements Study, we are going to take a look at teaching setting. Keep reading for lesson ideas, activities, mentor texts, and more!
All About CHARACTERS- Story Elements Study
Story elements are an important part of your literature skill curriculum. We are going to be taking a closer look at the parts of story
Teaching ELA Mini Lessons Virtually
I have received lots of questions about how to use my ELA mini lessons in a distance learning environment. Teachers are finding themselves teaching virtually
Teaching Nonfiction Skills in Kindergarten
This blog post focuses on teaching Kindergarten informational text skills. Informational text is nonfiction and allows students to learn more about types of text, asking
Free Folding Paper Activities for ELA
ELA can be a tough subject to teach because there are so many pieces within it. It can take lots of lesson planning, resource purchasing,
Practice Comprehension with Task Cards
Keeping students engaged in their learning is one of our biggest goals as teachers. In this post, we will discuss how to keep your students
Virtual Comprehension Activities
This blog post is being written during one of the most transformative times in education, the COVID-19 Pandemic. Teachers and students are turning to distance
The Benefits of Using Lexile
This blog post focuses on the many benefits of the Lexile Framework for Reading. Lexile reading scores are for grades Kindergarten and up. The resources
8 Easter Read Alouds for Your Classroom
Easter is coming up! If you’re allowed to teach the holiday in your classroom, then I have some fun books to share with you. The
6 Favorite Earth Day Read Alouds
Spring is here and it’s time to start all our spring holidays and themes! One of those holidays is Earth Day. Earth Day is an
