Once Halloween is over, use Thanksgiving to keep the instructional momentum going in your classroom! Here are seven Thanksgiving reading comprehension activities to use with...
Celebrate the Thanksgiving season in the classroom with vocabulary words! Like most holidays, the festivities surrounding Thanksgiving give teachers an opportunity to add...
Practice is the key to mastering and improving grammar skills! Here are eleven elementary grammar worksheets teachers can use in the classroom to reinforce key concepts.
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 post, we’ll highlight the importance of independent practice opportunities in foundational skills development and suggest ways to structure independent practice...
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...
We know from research that explicit, systematic instruction is best when it comes to phonics. Within explicit, systematic instruction, students need the chance to play with...
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...
In this article, you'll discover how team-building activities benefit high school students, ways to ensure team-building activities will be successful, and a variety of...
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