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5 Changes That Saved My Sanity
A week out of school, I am finally starting to feel human again. I’m relishing the moments I have with my kids, and I’m taking some time to do some things for me. But, I also have to say that…
Math Quicks!
I’m just popping in to share a couple little things we’ve done this week! With my “big” kids, we have been working on classifying triangles as well as perimeter and area of polygons. Classifying Triangles Anchor Chart We only spent…
Another Cumulative Novel Project!
I love, love, love finishing up a novel with a project that incorporates as many reading skills as possible. We just finished reading The Westing Game (deemed a favorite by many of my students), and we are also just about…
Teaching Main Idea Vs. Theme
If your students are anything like mine, they have an incredibly difficult time telling the difference between main idea and theme. Before this year, I had always taught the skills in isolation. Main Idea first, followed by Theme a few…
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Using Pictures to Teach Key Reading Skills
I blog a lot about how I use pictures to teach key reading skills, and I’m passionate about their impact on student learning. If you’re familiar with my blog, you have probably noticed students working with pictures in many, many…
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Ratios and Mysteries!
Sometimes I’m hesitant to post anchor charts because I don’t have a ton of information or activities to go with them, but I thought I’d go for it anyway! These are two that we have done this week as we…
Fiction Comprehension
We spent a few days before state testing doing some quick review activities for answering fiction comprehension questions. We had spent A LOT of time on nonfiction comprehension over the past several months, but I wanted to be sure we…
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Figurative Language Review
I have been trying to write this post for two weeks now! Between home, school and a few new resources I have been working on, I haven’t had a spare second. So, here’s what we did for our figurative language…
Anchor Chart Storage Solutions
Happy Sunday, and welcome to another month of Bright Ideas! I am teaming up with Shelly at Teaching in the Early Years as well as over 150 other bloggers to bring you a monthly “bright idea.” I’m a little bit sheepish…
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Teaching Point of View
I absolutely love teaching point of view! We have been busy working on point of view, and most specifically, on how an author’s point of view impacts how a story is written or told. I loved some of the activities…
Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting Texts
We are SO close to being done with our nonfiction unit, and I’m looking forward to jumping back in to novel studies. My students are slowly growing to love (okay, maybe like is still a better word) informational text, and…
Tell Me a Story Tuesday!
It has been a while since I have featured a Tell Me a Story Tuesday post around here! I made a copy for each study and had them glue it in the center of a large piece of construction paper….
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