If you had the opportunity, would you choose eternal life? This highly engaging question is explored in Tuck Everlasting, making it a book that will quickly draw students in and spark debate. Author Natalie Babbitt crafts an easily relatable story that attracts reluctant readers and brings them ...
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Classroom intervention resources to help you teach place value like a pro
Effective teaching and intervention for place value require a deep understanding of numbers in their mathematical contexts, including the relationship between numbers and counting. Knowing how to represent numbers in different contexts, as well as why they are used in certain ways, is part of this ...
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12 Ways to Differentiate for Students who Struggle with Handwriting
Handwriting is taught at an early age in most schools. However, with so many standards to teach, it is often a quick and cursory process. This makes it easy to understand how some learners never have a chance to develop their handwriting skills to automaticity. Unfortunately, few schools provide ...
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Why transitions are the key to an effective classroom & how to improve them
When we think of effective teaching strategies, we often think of the big ones: having a clear lesson plan to guide our instruction, building rigor into our lessons, fostering student independence. But what about classroom transitions? The reality is that transitions make up a significant part ...
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Find out why The Lightning Thief is a great read for your next novel study
The first of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series, The Lightning Thief, is a great whole-class novel study or read aloud if you'll be teaching Greek history or introducing myths and legends this school year. Engaging and expertly crafted with pre-teen readers in mind, it's got all the important ...
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9 Ways to Build Strong Home-School Relationships this School Year
One of the most important factors in having a successful school year is having strong relationships with your students’ families. This can be one of the most shocking revelations new teachers experience when they are given their first classroom. We prepare for the lessons each day but are never ...
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