20 Reading Skills to Teach with The Name Jar

…Picture Book Teacher’s Edition. You may also find her on Facebook and Pinterest. She has reviewed over 140 books on her blog and provides teaching notes for all of them!…

How to Cure the Classroom Library Blues

…on the book matches the number on the card. If they match, the student gets the card back and can borrow another book. I started numbering the books, because I…

5 Math Games Every Classroom Needs to Play

…student crosses off numbers it can’t be and circles numbers it could. The person who guesses the right number, wins and gets to choose the next number. The best part…

Teaching Informational Text with Magazines

…National Geographic for Kids or American Girls. Monthly magazines are larger, more colorful, and have a wider variety of different types of content. Unfortunately, they are also more expensive and…

Book Character Day – Fun and Educational!

…to Laura’s Best Freebies. Book Character Parade Another activity that would work well with Book Character Day is a Book Character Parade. Here’s a snapshot that Barbara Gruener of the…

Power Reading Workshop and The Daily 5

…the topic. I was inspired by two more books, The Book Whisperer andIgniting a Passion for Reading, but what I really wanted was a set of step-by-step directions telling me…

12 Ways to Motivate Reluctant Readers

…bunch of students this year? If so, get your kids talking about books by forming classroom book clubs. Book clubs are groups of students who read the same books and…

The Power of Audio Books

books. I began to wonder how listening to audio books could translate to improved reading skills. I finally realized that audio books can introduce students to a world of reading…

Cooking Up a Caring Classroom

Book Titles and Topics Checklist After I realized that Julia’s books would be ideal for class meetings, I asked her if she had a chart with all of her book