Interactive Teaching Made Easy

…the Replay of Powerful Strategies for Building Math Vocabulary Understanding math vocabulary is critical to the conceptual development of almost every mathematical concept, but it can be difficult to find…

Bio Poems for President’s Day

…Easy. This resource is available in my TpT store, but it’s also free for my email subscribers. If you’d like a free copy, click the Freebies link in the menu…

Task Cards 101

…Student rarely get excited about worksheets, but they love task cards! The one-task-per-card format keeps students from being overwhelmed and allows them to feel a small sense of accomplishment as…

Secrets of Launching a Stellar School Year

…Find out how to get started with academic content in reading, math, spelling, writing, science, and social studies Click here to download these free note-taking handouts. Professional Development Options I…

6 Reasons to Teach Poetry in the Fall

…writing poetry. Free from worries about making grammatical errors, they can focus on capturing their feelings and painting word pictures on paper. Later, when they share their poems in class,…

How to Track Oral Reading Fluency

…in the form of a downloadable freebie. Graphing Oral Fluency includes student directions, the Oral Fluency Chart, and the Fluency Rate Line Graph. Feel free to use these resources with…

You Can Put a STOP to Classroom Disruption!

…noisy or off-task, you will erase a letter from the board. When all letters are erased, they will stop the activity and switch to an independent seatwork lesson. Feel free

Gearing Up for Next Generation Science

…classroom with special populations. Engineering does not have to be an “add-on” to what you are already teaching. Rather, it requires you to look at what you are already teaching…