Achieve writing fluency by practicing the handwriting skills unique to 3rd, 4th, and 5th-graders. Handwriting Practice for Bigger Kids Handwriting is a kindergarten and 1st-grade skill, right? When we teach a skill like division, we know it’s not a once-and-done kind of thing. Over the following years, kids will see division come up in…
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Improve reading by learning how to teach sight words using a research-based method. Perfect for teachers working with the Fry words. With limited time to teach reading, it makes sense to focus on teaching words students will encounter frequently. Enter: the Fry Words. Dr. Edward Fry developed a list of the most commonly used words…
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Inside: Busy teachers need to get up and running with the Seesaw app quickly! Try these 3 fast ways to put together Seesaw activities for your students. T o really frustrate teachers, throw a new app or program at them every year. Then expect that they’ll make magic with it in the classroom. Also, provide…
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Inside: Use this writing teaching strategy to get kids thinking of topics quickly and easily so they can get on with their work. This post contains affiliate links. Y ou give your writing lesson. Everyone has their materials. The hard work on your part is done and now it’s time for the kids to give…
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Inside: Find out how to use basic Seesaw tools and features so that your students can learn a lot from digital assignments. Have you decided that Seesaw is the right app for sending digital work to your students? Now you need to know: What can kids actually DO with Seesaw? At the most…
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Inside: Seesaw is an app for online learning. Can it simplify and improve your instruction? Find out inside! In the spring of 2020, teachers suddenly needed a way to deliver instruction from a distance. How would K-2 students complete work on a computer? They are slow typers. They need to draw and move things around.…
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Inside: My 10 favorite word sort activities. Use these in your classroom or for distance learning to build up spelling and phonics skills. O n Thursday nights when I was in 2nd grade, my mom turned into a spelling cheerleader. “B clap, U-R clap, R-I clap -E-D!” she’d chant. It wasn’t that my…
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Teach reading comprehension effectively using the gradual release method. Lost in a Teacher’s Guide I was brand new to Utah. Like, hadn’t even found a place to live so I was staying in my cousin’s basement kind of new. Being a planner, I had gotten early access to my new classroom and lugged out all…
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Reading comprehension strategies for 2nd graders and how to teach them. This post contains affiliate links. What Successful 2nd-Grade Readers Know and How to Teach It Reading Comprehension Strategies are Like a Messy Closet You know how when you try to clean out a closet, things get complicated really fast? Soon you end up…
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Reading comprehension strategies for parents, teachers, and tutors to use with first graders This post contains affiliate links. Don’t Get So Busy With Decoding that You Forget This In a school hallway lit by fluorescent lights, I sat across a desk from a student. The tip of my pen hovered over a testing booklet as…
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