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Help your students tap into their creative side with these three writing prompts. Use dreams, music or free association to keep students composing.
Continue ReadingSentence writing can be a drudgery, but it doesn’t have to be. Writing descriptive sentences can be fun if a game is involved! If you’d …
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Graphic organizers have many uses in the classroom, from helping students write stronger stories, essays, and even responses to writing prompts. Learn …
Continue ReadingTeaching younger students to elaborate and add details to their stories can be challenging, especially early in the year. Here are a few easy …
Continue ReadingNeed to teach your students to distinguish fact from opinion? If you’re looking for some easy activities to further the understanding of this …
Continue ReadingIn this lesson, students will explore the origins and truth (or lack thereof) behind popular and/or local urban legends. In doing so, they will use …
Continue ReadingWho doesn’t love cookies? Use cookies to motivate students to write a good descriptive paragraph. The team that writes the best descriptions …
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For few children, math skills come naturally. For others mathematics is tough and boring. There are different approaches that can make math classes …
Continue ReadingHave you been told you are going to be team teaching in the next school year? Although it sounds like a daunting task, it can actually be a very …
Continue ReadingUse this simplified lesson plan to give your students a working knowledge of the homeostatic function as it applies to the characteristics of life. …
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