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!…

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

books from different authors and across different genres, and let students choose the books they want to read. You can use reading interest surveys to help them find books on…

The Power of Audio Books

…on their own. What to do? Require them to choose an easier book that didn’t interest them? Or let them choose a difficult book, knowing that they would probably drop…

Bucket Seats… Made Easy!

…super easy tutorial on how to make bucket seats from those cheap 5-gallon paint buckets that you can get from pretty much any home improvement store. I actually got mine…

Honoring 9/11 – A Delicate Balance

…created to go with the book, as well as some teaching tips and management strategies for using this book in your classroom. 1. Read aloud The Man Who Walked Between…

Plickers 102: Innovative Ways to Use Plickers

…why they choose a particular response. 7. Choose Your Own Adventure Stories How about using Plickers when reading a Choose Your Own Adventure book to your class? Tami Terry shared…

Getting Started with Classroom Book Clubs

…to discuss their thoughts and feelings about it. There’s no doubt that kids love being able to choose books that interest them, and they love having time to talk about…