Celebrate the Extra Day: Leap Year Classroom Activities

Celebrate the Extra Day: Leap Year Classroom Activities

The gift of an extra day is coming your way! Yep, that's right – every four years, we get a bonus day on February 29th. Why let this special day pass by without some classroom fun and learning? In this blog post, we've got the whole day planned, from morning work to...

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Fresh Ideas to Teach Similes and Metaphors

Fresh Ideas to Teach Similes and Metaphors

Teaching is like a roller coaster. Some days you're up, some days you're down. But when it comes to teaching figurative language like similes and metaphors, there's no need to spiral out! When you use these ideas to teach similes and metaphors in your classroom, your...

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Homophone How-To for 2nd Grade

Homophone How-To for 2nd Grade

Have you found yourself in a homophones teaching funk? Are your students just not understanding this important grammar skill? If so, keep reading this post set up as a "homophone how to for 2nd grade", to learn tips, tricks and strategies to launch you and your...

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Teaching Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases

Teaching Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases

Enhance Literacy with Embedded Grammar Lessons Research on the Science of Reading (SOR) dating back to the 1970s shows that teaching grammar as isolated rules doesn't effectively transfer to writing and speaking. What works better is embedding grammar within the...

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Verb Tenses

Verb Tenses

By now, your learners have mastered the basic parts of a sentence. As their writing skills continue to grow, they will need to know how to write stories, and reports that tell what happened in the past, present, or future. Let's dive into verb tenses! Enhance Literacy...

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Glow Day Classroom Transformation

Glow Day Classroom Transformation

Are you ready for a classroom transformation that will shine above the rest?! If so, we have just the resource for you: Glow Day Classroom Transformation. So turn off the lights, sit back and grab your glow sticks while this post illuminates how this day will become a...

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Get Ready for Next Year: Essential Summer Classroom Prep

Get Ready for Next Year: Essential Summer Classroom Prep

It happens to many teachers... You are sitting outside, relaxing and taking in all things summer break, when it hits. The school planning bug. Your brain wonders if it is too early to start planning, but your heart is excited at the thought of a new school year; a...

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Teaching Shades of Meaning

Teaching Shades of Meaning

Enhance Literacy with Embedded Grammar Lessons Research on the Science of Reading (SOR) dating back to the 1970s shows that teaching grammar as isolated rules doesn't effectively transfer to writing and speaking. What works better is embedding grammar within the...

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