Checking for Understanding with Exit Tickets
Guest post by Greg Coleman from Mr. Elementary Math During my early years as a classroom teacher I felt that exit tickets were yet another initiative or showy thing to…
Guest post by Greg Coleman from Mr. Elementary Math During my early years as a classroom teacher I felt that exit tickets were yet another initiative or showy thing to…
…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…
…sort of “fingerprint” the Plickers software uses to identify each student when the cards are scanned. The number on each side is the number assigned to the student in the…
…seats without permission. They need something tangible to remind them to follow the classroom procedures. I have found that using raffle tickets helps tremendously. I give students 2 raffle tickets…
…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…
…it’s been a hit so far. Reuben Hks – I always buy each of my students a book from Scholastic. Each month, they have a book in the book club…
…caused by man. By writing this book, I could demonstrate empathetic understanding for children, as well as model positive parent and teaching strategies. But this book would be very different…
…26 days of school. Katie Eskridge – We make a book hall of fame- they write up reports on the best novel they read this year and give them an…
…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…
…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…
…books. Think audio books are for little kids? Maybe you haven’t listened to Madeleine L’Engle read A Wrinkle in Time! Audio books are some of the best reading motivators you’ll…
…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…
