Apr 24
Are you looking for some motivational ideas for test day? Your students will be ready to tackle the challenge with these seven fantastic ideas. Read about candy notes, crafts, posters and bulletin boards, lapbooks, and videos. Follow the links for free printable. Enjoy! I hope your students rock the test. The handout includes printable candy …
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Apr 21
Are you looking for some high-interest stories for this Earth Day? Four stories including two animated shorts and two picture books will have your students diving more deeply into reading skills. Stories for Earth Day #1 – Animated Short Migrant The short film Migrant was inspired by real events. In 2018, a ship named the …
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Apr 03
If you are looking for some high-interest activities, try using animated shorts to teach inference skills. This post features five animated shorts that your students are sure to love. The shorts vary from serious to funny. Select the ones you really like, or show all five videos. In the accompanying handouts, students summarize, infer, and …
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Mar 28
Do you need One Crazy Summer teaching ideas? This article includes 5 entertaining exercises that your students will enjoy. The touching book One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia explores social justice, identity, and family issues. The story of the three sisters, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern, who go from Brooklyn to Oakland to meet their mother, …
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Mar 27
Fifth graders + commas = chaos with a sprinkle of misplaced punctuation. If you’ve ever seen commas tossed into a sentence like confetti—“My dog, barks, loudly, every, morning,”—you know the struggle is real. Luckily, this post has everything you need to help students master comma rules and enjoy the process. From quick-reference charts to video …
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Mar 13
Are you looking for The Outsiders teaching activities? This post has 5 fun ideas your students are sure to love. S. E. Hinton’s book The Outsiders has captivated readers’ hearts for more than 50 years. The book chronicles the story of two antagonistic gangs, the greasers and the socs, and is set in the 1960s …
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Feb 27
Students should use different ways to start sentences. Teaching students to use a variety of sentence structures can greatly improve their writing. This post contains a step-by-step lesson plan with printables for teaching students this very important skill. The activities in this lesson can easily be divided across multiple days into mini-lesson or taught as …
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