Teaching author’s purpose can be one of the most engaging and entertaining skills that you teach! If you do some great activities for author’s purpose, your students will be engaged the entire time and successful at figuring out what the purpose is that the author is trying to write! In this post, I am going…
Teaching plot to students is typically a fun first skill to work on with them! Teaching plot with picture books and short stories help students create mastery of the skill. Engaging them in their learning with interesting topics also helps! In this post, I am going to share my five favorite ways to review and…
Summarizing is one of the first skills that you should teach your readers when the school year begins. Being able to summarize what they read helps them with the ability to check for understanding, support with text evidence, and check if what they are reading is at a level that makes sense to them. Activities…
When you start the back to school season, reviewing is essential. If you spend the first three to four weeks reviewing previous standards and skills, you will help yourself so much in the long run. In this post, I am going to give you quick tips on ways to review standards throughout the first few…
Starting off the school year with great parent communication is essential to continue to have a great school year. The home-to-school connection is necessary for the parents, the students, and the teachers. “When parents are involved at school, the performance of all the children at school, not just their own, tends to improve. The more…
The back to school season can be full of tons of back to school writing prompts that allow students to get creative, but also allows you to see where their writing abilities are. All back to school writing topics in third grade and above should be combined with a great read-aloud! This allows your writers…
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