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informational writing leads anchor chart and tips

Great Informational Writing Leads Anchor Chart and Tips

Informational Writing Leads Anchor Chart and Tips Are you looking for ways to help your students with their informational/expository writing? This informational writing leads anchor chart is a great addition to your writing lessons! I’ll admit, I’ve had a love/hate relationship with teaching writing over my teaching career. Teaching students

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7 fun reading response activities

7 Fun Reading Response Activities

Giving students opportunities to respond to their reading allows readers to think about their reading, apply key concepts and strategies, and actively engage with the text. This engagement helps enable students to internalize what they read. Continue reading to find 7 fun reading response activities that your students will love!

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4 Ideas for Creating a Vocabulary Rich Classroom Environment

Creating a vocabulary rich environment in which words are loved, valued, and enjoyed is an important way to help students discover and use new vocabulary. Vocabulary is not something that is memorized and tested, rather, vocabulary should be read, written, discussed, and enjoyed daily. When students see your love for

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ways to use index cards in the classroom

7 Fun Ways to Use Index Cards in the Classroom

I think it may be possible that all teachers love post-it-notes. Do you know that I love index cards almost just as much? There are so many ways to use index cards in the classroom. These inexpensive little cards can quickly change up a lesson. Index cards are not very

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Classroom Reveal

Decorating our classroom, to me, is something that I enjoy each year. I like making a room inviting and colorful for my students. Already this year, I have had students comment on our classroom decorations. My goal this year was to keep it simple by using the same color scheme

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14 fabulous time fillers for language arts

14 Fabulous Time Fillers for Language Arts

Have you ever finished a lesson to find that you have 5 or 10 minutes until you needed to transition to lunch, music, or some other activity? These simple and fun time fillers for language arts are just what you need. Easy Time Fillers for Language Arts We have all

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End of the Year Activities

The end of the school year can be filled with so many emotions: relief, a little sadness, anticipation, anxiety to squeeze in all of the curriculum, and a lot of excitement (even from the teachers). With the year winding down, it is a perfect time to plan some fun and

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