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Showing posts with label language arts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label language arts. Show all posts
Sunday

Unlocking the Power of Independent Reading: Essential Benefits for Elementary School Students

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Independent Reading Time The Importance of Independent Reading Time in Elementary Schools In the bustling environment of an elem...
Wednesday

Printable Word Searches for Teachers in the Classroom

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Word Searches to Print What are the Benefits of Word Searches? The benefits of word search puzzles are vast. They improve cognitive func...
Saturday

Creating Colorful Writing

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Colorful Writing Idea This is a fun activity to do at the start of the year with your kids.  It will get them thinking ab...

Boxes Become Bookmarks

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I am so glad to be participating in the Bright Ideas Hop/Link Up again this month.  Right at 150 teacher bloggers have joined up to sh...
Wednesday

Text Annotation Codes

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The big push in the classroom is to get kids thinking about their reading .  They should be digging for deeper meaning. A basic yellow hig...
Sunday

Building Fluency

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Fluency -   The ability to read with  speed, accuracy, and proper expression. Building fluency is a main focus in my upper elementa...
Saturday

Free Fall Summarizing Activity

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Fall Summarizing Activity When we teach students to pull out the most important details from a text and organize those details in a meanin...
Wednesday

Sarah, Plain and Tall Activities

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I love reading the book Sarah, Plain and Tall  by Patricia MacLachlan with my students. I actually have an entire class set, so we typica...
Monday

Constitution Day Reading Activity

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Constitution Day Reading Activity September 17 is Constitution Day .  Did you know that if you are a public school educator then you are r...
Tuesday

Printable Bubble Sheets

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Printable Bubble Sheets Let's face it.... I think testing is here to stay.  Along with the testing comes the infamous bubble sheet ....
Thursday

FREE Independent Reading Poster

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Goodness !  At the start of every year, you always have a few reluctant readers ... the ones that have to be trained to read independently ...
Wednesday

What is Reading?

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This reading poster is another one that will work perfectly in an interactive reading journal .  For me, I would use this at the very star...

FREE Determine the Setting Poster

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I'm on a kick making reading posters that I hope you will find helpful in your classroom.  This is the third one, and it is on the ski...
Tuesday

FREE Describing a Character Poster

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This is the second in a series of posters I am making and giving away for FREE .  They are perfect for students to glue into their interact...
Monday

FREE Making Inferences Poster

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Inferring can be so hard for kids to grasp. Here's a  cute poster to use to introduce it to your students.  I have also included a smal...
Sunday

Words and Phrases Alluding to Mythology

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Mythology Activity If you are like me, that is exactly what you thought when you read this new common core objective: CCSS.ELA-Liter...
Friday

Adjective and Setting Activities

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Adjective Activities and Setting, too This past week, I sort of combined my reading skill of setting with my grammar skill of adjectives ....