Apr 29
Are you looking for some great materials and ideas to teach text features? You’ve come to the right place. This “Text Features” blog post contains several anchor charts that will provide inspiration for ones you can make for your classroom. You will find anchor charts for text features and parts of a book. You’ll also …
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Apr 01
Collaborative Learning. You know—the strategy we want to love because it fosters student interaction, critical thinking, and communication… but sometimes dread because it feels like pulling teeth. The truth? Collaborative learning is powerful. It gets students talking, thinking, and learning from each other. But without a plan, group work can get chaotic fast. So in …
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Mar 25
Stargirl starts on the first day of eleventh grade for our narrator, Leo Borlock. The buzz around the school is, “Did you see the new girl?” Stargirl goes to school for the first time as a tenth grader. Up till then, she had been homeschooled. Due to Stargirl’s unusual behavior including carrying her pet rat to …
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Mar 11
Famous People Interviews is one of my students’ favorite writing activities. In this project, each student is assigned an important historical figure to research. After gathering information, the student prepares a timeline, summarizes a speech, and writes thoughtful interview questions. Then comes the fun part—students step into character and role-play their famous figure while classmates …
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Feb 27
Nan is an eleven-year-old chimney sweep living in Victorian England. She lives with four other chimney sweeps: Roger, Whittles, Shilling-Tom, and Newt. Their heartless master creates a rivalry between Nan and the oldest boy on the crew, Roger. The sweep who gathers less soot during the day must eat slops for dinner. This causes Roger …
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Feb 25
I Survived the Battle of D-Day, 1944 is a powerful novel that plunges readers into one of the most important moments in world history. On June 6, 1944, Allied forces launched a massive invasion of Nazi-occupied France. They stormed the beaches of Normandy in a daring bid to turn the tide of World War II. …
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Feb 18
Teaching grammar doesn’t have to feel like pulling teeth—or pulling your students’ attention away from TikTok. Appositives might sound fancy, but they’re just sneaky little noun-revealers that give sentences a boost of flavor and clarity. And yes, I brought charts, organizers, and video reinforcements because you deserve backup. Here’s what’s in the lesson handout: a …
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