If you’re like me, you want to make sure your students are on track with their decoding skills. But, sometimes it’s hard to know where to start. This quick assessment can help you get a sense of your students’ decoding abilities in just a few minutes. Today, I am sharing
You need a simple solution to target your students’ reading needs. With One Page Phonics Intervention, students will work on their phonological awareness, encoding, and decoding. This is a helpful tool for identifying the breakdown while practicing these foundational reading skills. Let’s chat about how to use this no-prep intervention
Teaching how to tell time can be a welcome break from computation. But, depending on students’ background knowledge, navigating an analog clock can prove challenging for some. For many of our younger students, learning to tell time can be a tricky new skill to grasp. But with the right approach,
Morning Meeting has always been one of my favorite parts of the school day. But let’s be honest—coming up with a quick, engaging, low-prep activity can sometimes feel like one more thing on an already full to-do list. If you’re looking for simple ways to bring some February love and
The end of the day during dismissal was one of my least favorite times of the school day ever. I don’t know about your school but our dismissal time is 20ish minutes. Those 20 minutes feel more like 3 hours sometimes (especially on a Friday). Problem is, I’m totally worn out from the
Are you looking for some new books to read to your class when you return from winter break? These 5 stories are the perfect read alouds for the new year!
Are you ready for THE BEST beginning of the year math game ever?! In this post, I’m going to teach you how to play Trash Can Math–a place value game! I learned this game two years ago when I was filling in for a teacher on maternity leave. We got
Tired of the same old flashcard routine? Let’s breathe new life into your fact fluency activities! Learn innovative ways to make flashcard practice engaging, effective, and easy to implement. In this post, I’ll share practical strategies for building a toolbox that transforms flashcards into an effective tool for strengthening math
By my 4th year of teaching, I was fortunate to have 1:1 Chromebooks in my classroom. I used them daily for listening to reading during literacy stations and math games during math centers. We would use them to play Kahoot from time to time or Prodigy Math which my students
Task cards, like many other teaching resources, have gone digital! And there are many different ways to utilize them in your math block and beyond. Read to the end to snag your free copy of these 2 Digit Addition Word Problem Interactive Task Cards! # 1″I do” Part of the
Grab this FREE memory game to get your students thinking and moving! 🧠✨ Perfect for morning meetings, brain breaks, or indoor recess. 🎯
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