Look at our featured mentor texts! Love them 🙂 After days of reading “Swimming with Sharks,” we were ready to wrap it up and move on to other texts and genres. Before we left, I wanted my students to think …
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Change over time…it is on every test and yet it is one of the most difficult concepts for kids to grasp. 😏 Here’s the chart I used and created with my students. This became the focus for the lesson…our teaching …
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In previous lessons, we worked to differentiate between character feelings and character traits, sorting them as positive and negative. But they were still writing character feelings as character traits and vice versa. We created charts together and the students referred …
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To begin, I went through the standards that needed to be revisited before the test. I love using a calendar and writing exactly what I’m teaching and how I’m teaching it. The calendar helps me see what I’m teaching from …
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This year, during test prep season, I wanted to try something different. In previous years, test prep meant a lot of drilling of multiple choice questions, short responses, and essays. It was practice test after practice test in the hopes …
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Our first units of study in reading and writing on the Iroquois and the Algonquians has ended! Now, we move onto explorers! I love that the transition from Native Americans to exploration lends itself to point of view perfectly! To …
