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Task Card Corner
**Check out my NEW blog totally dedicated to task cards!* I have been working on my Task Card Corner, and I’m so excited to finally share it with “the world.” I’m so pleased with how it turned out, and my…
Teaching Context Clues
I think that, right along with teaching inference, teaching context clues is one of the most crucially important skills that we teach as educators. It is also one of the more tricky skills that students are faced with, so I…
Nonfiction Main Idea
Are you looking for a new an exciting way to have your students work on identifying main idea in nonfiction texts? This is a super low-prep activity that I’ve had great success with for years! Have extra Time for Kids…
Multiplying Decimals Freebie Find!
I had a sub (we actually call them guest teachers now!) yesterday morning while I was busy collaborating with some other teachers in the district for a Daily 5 training we are leading. As I was planning for my math…
Teaching Syllable Segmentation
In my 3rd and 4th grade decoding and encoding intervention groups, we have been working on syllable segmentation. I had a major internal conflict on whether or not to teach it as part of an intervention group, and in the…
Multiplying Decimals
Now that we have finished up multiplication, and my students have a solid foundation of multi-digit multiplication, we have moved on to multiplying decimals (I had originally planned to go on to patterning and functions, but decided this was a…
Open Ended Comprehension Cards
I have always desired to push my students in their thinking about texts. While we do focus on comprehension questions, both literal and inferential, I love to have students do a little bit of their own question development that requires…
GROUPS Acronym
The first year I began teaching, one of my teammates shared with me this fantastic acronym for GROUPS. I thought I would post it and share it with you all. I have always had it hanging in my room, and…
Mastering Multiplication Activities
The past few weeks, we have been hitting multiplication activities hard! Our school is focusing a lot on mathematical computational fluency, so it is a main focus area for us this year (and last year). While I firmly believe that…
Vacationing Student Assignment and Task Card Craziness!
Happy Thursday, everyone! I’ve been busy this week setting up my task card board for my classroom, so I have spent a lot of my free time at home cutting, hole punching, and picking tiny pieces of laminating plastic out…
Story Elements & Main Idea Freebie!
I was looking through some files today and found this fun activity I have always used with my third graders. I call it the Story Element Match, but I use it for story elements, main idea, and summarizing. It’s a…
Soap Animals!
A quick, but fun post tonight! After having two, 3 day weeks (due to conferences and work days), this is our first full week back, and I have had a lot of planning to do (and of course relaxing and…
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