Celebrate the Thanksgiving season in the classroom with vocabulary words! Like most holidays, the festivities surrounding Thanksgiving give teachers an opportunity to add...
Today I'm sharing a fun, relatively quick Halloween vocabulary game that helps students master a few of their trickier vocabulary words! This spooky season, have students ...
Download free Halloween printable activities that will engage students in various reading, grammar, writing, and vocabulary exercises. These Halloween worksheet PDFs will...
Today I wanted to share my fall haiku poetry worksheet so students across the country can compose some nature haikus! When the weather starts to turn chilly, I want to grab a...
Pumpkins-to me no vegetable has more connotations associated with it. Pumpkins remind me of Fall and Halloween and Thanksgiving and pumpkin pie and pumpkin seeds and pumpkin...
In this article, we will examine why it’s important to teach vocabulary explicitly and systematically to students and share some research-based best practices for effective...
One of the most efficient ways to improve student writing is to write daily. To ensure writing occurs daily in my classroom I've implemented quickwrite strategies and...
As I have said in a previous post, I love meeting new people. It makes sense that one of my favorite parts of a new school year is getting to know my students. When I begin...
Use simple back-to-school writing prompts to assess writing skills and learn important information about each student in your room! Individual Back-To-School Writing Prompts
Although I have been working all summer long, the inevitable school year start date suddenly looms up before me, scary and overwhelming. To honor teachers also feeling the...
In this article, you'll find fun first week of school activities for middle school students that can be downloaded and printed for FREE! I love that these back-to-school...
I wanted to highlight a few ways students can continue engaging with words during summer break. The summer vocabulary worksheets included in this article are great to share...