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A blogpost with tips for a successful novel study and novel units.

8 TIPS FOR A SUCCESSFUL NOVEL STUDY

Learn tips and strategies for teaching US history.

BEST TIPS FOR TEACHING U.S. HISTORY

Ideas and activities for awards ceremony

10 Must-Do Ideas for an Unforgettable End-of-Year Awards Ceremony

BLOG ARTICLE FOR MOTHER'S DAY IDEAS FOR KIDS

8 HEARTFELT Mother’s Day Ideas for Kids

An article explaining the most effective strategy to improve behavior in the classroom.

#1 WAY TO IMPROVE CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR

Best Novels for Upper Elementary Students (Grades 3–5): Classroom Favorites Kids Love

10 FUN POETRY ACTIVITIES TO GET KIDS EXCITED

10 Fun Poetry Activities to Get Kids Excited About Poems

10 tips for teaching honesty

Truth Be Told: 10 Tips for Teaching Honesty in the Classroom

HOW INTERACTIVE READING NOTEBOOKS AND ANCHOR CHARTS TRANSFORM COMPREHENSION IN GRADES 3–5

Celebrating Holidays Around the World by Country

Interactive Notebooks: Yay or Nay?

AMAZON TEACHER FINDS TO ROCK YOUR CLASSROOM

10 STEPS TO BE A ROCKSTAR TEACHER

Easter Egg Hunt for Literacy

Ideas to for test prep for end of grade test.

Top Ways to Prep for the ELA Test & Boost Confidence

What Are Some Simple Music Games for Autistic Students to Boost Coordination?

HOW TO CREATE AN APD-FRIENDLY CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT FOR BETTER LEARNING

teacher appreciation ideas for principals

24 Teacher Appreciation Ideas for School Administrators: Lifting Up Teachers

5 Key Benefits of Taking Online Dutch Language Lessons: Enhance Fluency and Flexibility

How to Use a Single Mentor Text for All Your Writing Instruction

8 Ways to Celebrate World Kindness Day in Your Classroom

Rock the Writing Process

Make Writing Instruction a Priority!

How to Use Grammarly: A Comprehensive Guide

Why I Use Grammarly and You Should Too!

10 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Skip Peer Editing

6 Strategies for Personal Development to Help Academic Growth!

What is the Difference Between Step-by-Step Writing® and Rockstar Writers®?

4 Ways to Add Multisensory Experiences in the Classroom

8 Ways to Effectively Utilize Task Cards

12 Activities for Read Across America Week

10 Teaching Activities for Women’s History Month

WHAT IS A REBUTTAL IN AN ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY?

WHAT IS A WARRANT IN AN ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY?

WHAT IS A CREDIBLE SOURCE IN ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAYS?

A MASSIVE LIST OF GREEK AND LATIN PREFIXES, ROOT WORDS, AND SUFFIXES

8 SURPRISING REASONS TO TEACH GREEK AND LATIN ROOTS AND AFFIXES

WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF CLAIMS IN AN ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY?

WHAT IS A CLAIM IN AN ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY?

TOP TIPS TO DIFFERENTIATE YOUR WRITING INSTRUCTION

HELPING STUDENTS WITH ANXIOUS MOMENTS

How to Use the CASEL Framework for Social-Emotional Learning

17 Activities, Games, and Strategies to Teach Vocabulary

20 BELOVED BUT BANNED BOOKS

How to Help Students Handle Stress with Breathing Exercises

The Best (and Easiest) Way to Teach American History

Language Arts Lesson Plans for January!

5 Classroom Tips to Rock the New Year!

10 Simile Mentor Texts That Will Make You Laugh Like a Hyena

5 Different Types of Rubrics

Differentiation in Trauma-Informed Teaching | Social and Emotional Learning in the Classroom | SEL

11 Amazing Back to School Amazon Teacher Finds

What is Trauma-Informed Teaching?

TEACHER TIPS AND ACTIVITIES FOR THE LAST TWO WEEKS OF SCHOOL

How to Teach Similes Like a Rockstar

12 CAUSE AND EFFECT MENTOR TEXTS FOR FICTION AND NONFICTION WITH SUMMARIES AND TEACHER TIPS

What is Earth Day?

10 SIZZLING MENTOR TEXTS FOR TEACHING ONOMATOPOEIAS

Have Fun Teaching Figurative Language

Taking Care of Yourself – Tracking Your Habits

What is Women’s History Month?

10 LUCKY ST. PATRICK’S DAY MENTOR TEXT WITH TEACHER TIPS

What is the Meaning Behind St. Patrick’s Day?

THE PROS AND CONS OF READING RESPONSE JOURNALS

Who was George Washington?

Who was Abe Lincoln?

What is Valentine’s Day?

How to Teach Hyperbole and Die Laughing!

10 VALENTINE’S DAY TEXTS TO SPREAD THE LOVE

Hyperbole Texts with Examples that Exaggerate and Excite

Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?

10 CHILDREN’S BOOKS FOR SETTING GOALS AND RESOLUTIONS – TIPS INCLUDED!

20 MENTOR TEXTS AND TEACHING TIPS TO CELEBRATE HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD

10 LEGENDary Mentor Texts with Summaries and Teaching Tips

How to Write a Cereal Box Biography

15 TYPES OF GENRES WITH TEACHING ACTIVITIES

18 MENTOR TEXTS AND TIPS TO TEACH THANKFULNESS

RESOURCES FOR TEACHING MYTHS AND ALLUSIONS

10 Mentor Text and Myth Activities to Use in the Classroom

11 Mentor Texts for Teaching Mysteries

11 Activities for Teaching a Mystery Unit

HOW TO INCORPORATE POSITIVE THINKING IN THE CLASSROOM

What is Informative Writing?

What is Opinion Writing?

What is Narrative Writing?

10 Ideas for Back-to-School Treat Bags (Non-food ideas included!)

My Favorite Must-Haves for Classroom Organization

Back to School – First Week of School Lesson Plans and Activities

What is the Difference Between Narrative, Opinion, and Informative Writing?

HUGE LIST OF ENGAGING READING RESPONSE ACTIVITIES BASED ON LEARNING STYLES

Huge List of Easy Ways to Avoid the Summer Slide

Mentor Text to Celebrate Diversity in the Classroom!

Building Friendships in the Classroom Using Lyrics

20 Mentor Texts that Reveal the Power of Positive Thinking

How to use Lyrics for Conflict Resolution

5 EASY WAYS TO TEACH ACADEMIC VOCABULARY FOR MASTERY

Long List of Song Lyrics For Classroom Management

3 Reasons Why You Should Teach Academic Vocabulary

Top 20 Lyrical Mentor Text To Teach Literacy – You got the beat!

Discover mentor text to use for Earth Day activities

Earth Day Mentor Text – Learn How To Restore Our Earth

A Collection of Mentor Texts Ideal for Teaching Poetry Elements

The Best Ways to Prepare Students for Standardized Tests

Amazing Books and Collections for Women’s History

Top 12 Mentor Text Used To Teach Different Types of Poetry

12 Cinderella Stories from Around the World

Effective Mentor Texts to Help Students See Proper Punctuation

Amazing Mentor Text to Teach Character Traits

How to Effectively Use Mentor Texts in the Classroom

DO YOU NEED VIBRANT MENTOR TEXT TO TEACH WORD CHOICE?

How to Help Students With SMART Goals

Remarkable Principals Who Know How to Make a Difference

PRINCIPALS- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SCHOOL MORALE

How to Keep Students Engaged During the Holidays

5 Fun Ideas for a Virtual Holiday Party

What You NEED to Know About Student Learning (Part Three)

What You NEED to Know About Student Learning (Part Two)

What You NEED to Know About Student Learning

5 Tips to Make Teaching Easier with Google Classroom

Getting Started with Google Classroom: The Teacher Basics

Six Ways to Use Close Reading in Your Classroom

The Best Way to Teach Greek and Latin Roots and Affixes

Revising and Editing: What is the Difference?

How To Teach Writing Remotely

Email Etiquette for Elementary Students

How to Boost Student Morale

Black Lives Matter: Ways to Educate Yourself and Your Students

Top 10 Things Teachers Need to Know for Distance Learning

Writing Mini-Lesson Videos for Students

Comparing FREE PDF Editors for Education

How Students Can Write on a PDF Using DocHub

How To Assign Pages from a PDF

How To Really Be Successful With Online Teaching

How to Make the Most Useful Workspace for Homeschool

How to Support Digital Learning with Quality Resources

How to Effectively Scaffold Your Instruction

Never Again…. It’s Time to Scaffold Instruction

What Happens When You Don’t Differentiate

How to Incorporate Chocolate Into Your Classroom

25 Songs That Will Support Your Instruction

reading comprehension

What Are Reading Comprehension Passages with Step-by-Step Questions?

How to Offer Differentiation in the Classroom

Teachers, How to REALLY Balance Work and Life

How to Rock Your Writing Instruction

Mystery Book List for Upper Elementary

Danger: What Happens When You Don’t Teach Writing

5 Habits of an Effective Teacher

Self-Care Tips that Support Selfless Teachers

7 POWERFUL STEPS TO BE AN OUTSTANDING TEACHER

5 Ways to Motivate Students in the Classroom

PROMISING STRATEGIES THAT ACTUALLY SUPPORT DYSLEXIA

teaching tips and tricks for first year teacher

30+ Things I Wish I Knew My First Years of Teaching

How to Improve Student Writing With Writing Checklists

6 Successful Strategies for Teaching Colonization

What Happens When You Let Students Lead Your Conferences?

How To Build Character in the Classroom Every Month

Step-By-Step Reading with Interactive Notebooks

step by step writing workshop, writing program and writing curriculum.

Step-by-Step Writing® Program with Interactive Notebooks

5 Essential Things Every Writing Center Needs

How to Teach Theme

HOW TO ANALYZE POETRY STEP-BY-STEP

Teaching the Character Trait Honesty

A Series of Step-By-Step Writing® Mini Lessons

TEACHING THE CHARACTER TRAIT PERSEVERE

art, language arts, communication, stem, steam

Why Language Arts is the Art of Communication

How to Make Poster-Size Anchor Charts from a PDF

17 Ways Kids Can Be Thankful

Why Language Arts is Integral to STEM

Writing Mini Lesson #38 on Final Copies

Writing Mini Lesson #37 on Peer Reflections

Writing Mini Lesson #36 on Spelling

Writing Mini Lesson #35 on Punctuation

Writing Mini Lesson #33 on Capitalization

An Easy Way to Build Good Character in the Classroom

A STEP-BY-STEP APPROACH TO TEACHING MYTHOLOGICAL ALLUSIONS

How to Teach Inference

May Writing Prompts

Strategies to Teach Text-Dependent Analysis (TDA)

APRIL WRITING PROMPTS

7 Writing Activities for March

An Easy Reading Response System for Accountability

THE BEST WAY TO SET UP INTERACTIVE WRITING NOTEBOOKS

October Books for Upper Elementary

7 Ways to Teach Cause and Effect

How to Get Your Students Writing!

Classroom Must Haves: Things I Can’t “Picture” Myself Teaching Without

Classroom Supplies I Couldn’t Live Without

How to Organize Your Classroom Library

Back to School- End of Year Time Capsules

10 Ideas to Teach Deeper Meaning in the Content Areas

Civil War Timeline

How to Know Your Students Are Reading Each Night

How to Teach Text Evidence

12 February Ideas for Literacy Centers

How My Students Passed the Writing Test with Flying Colors!

8 Engaging Writing Activities for January

Writing Mini Lesson #34- Usage

Holidays Around the World Web Quest

Writing Mini Lesson #32- CUPS to Edit

12 Teaching Ideas for the Holidays

Bunnicula Review and Teaching Ideas

Writing Mini Lesson #31- Crafting a Title

Writing Mini Lesson #30- Jammin Conclusion of a Narrative Essay

Writing Mini Lesson #29- Variety of Sentences

Writing Mini Lesson #28- Million Dollar Words- WORD CHOICE

Back to School Tips, Freebies and Giveaways- Over $400!

Writing Mini Lesson #27- Revising a Narrative Essay- Exchange- Rockin Beginnings

Writing Mini Lesson #26- Revising a Narrative Essay- Rearrange

Writing Mini Lesson #25- Revising a Narrative Essay- Add- Transition Words

Writing Mini Lesson #40- Narrative Writing Homework or Class work

Writing Mini Lesson #24- Revising a Narrative Essay- Delete

Effective Ways to Teach Greek and Latin Roots AND Vocabulary

Writing Mini Lesson #23- Revising a Narrative Essay

Writing Mini Lesson #22- Writing a Rough Draft for a Narrative Essay

10 STEPS TO MAKING CHOCOLATE

Writing Mini Lesson #21- Writing the Conclusion of a Narrative Essay

Writing Mini Lesson #20- Dialogue in a Narrative Essay

Writing Mini Lesson #18- Building Suspense and Climax in a Narrative Essay

Writing Mini Lesson #17- Writing the Body Section of a Narrative Essay

Writing Mini Lesson #16- Writing an Introduction for a Narrative Essay

Writing Mini Lesson #15- Plot

Writing Mini Lesson #19- Developing Characters in a Narrative Essay

Rock and Write

Test Prep Tips and Strategies

Writing Mini Lesson #14- Graphic Organizers for Narrative Writing

Writing Mini Lesson #13- Setting Writing Goals

Mini Lesson #12- Task, Purpose, Audience for Narrative Writing

Writing Mini Lesson #11- Prewriting for Narrative Essay

Writing Mini Lesson #10- 3 Steps to Prepare for Narrative Writing

Christmas Around the World Web Quest and More!

Writing Mini Lesson #9- The Writing Process

Writing Mini Lesson #8- Table of Contents and Progress Grade for Notebooks

Writing Mini Lesson #7- CLOSING SENTENCES AND CLINCHERS

Secret Garden Unit Revised!

Writing Mini Lesson #6- Relevant Details

HOW TO TEACH PARAGRAPH WRITING

Writing Mini Lesson #4- Run-On Sentences

Writing Mini Lesson #3- Fragments

Writing Mini Lesson #2- Complete Sentences

Writing Mini Lesson 1- Brainstorming for Interactive Notebooks

Teaching Techniques for Writing

Hall Display to Last through the Year!

10 Best Organizing Tips for the Classroom

Second Grade Interactive Notebook

DIY- Classroom Curtains

Get Ready for an Amazing Year of Writing!

HOW TO CREATE INTERACTIVE WRITING NOTEBOOKS and PORTFOLIOS

10 Steps to Prepare for Writing Workshop

Notice, Think, and Wonder!

Keeping a Memory Book of Students

10 Simple Steps to Making Chocolate Bars

Effective Way to Teach Students How to Give Book Report Presentations!

Headbandz Social Studies Review

Valentine’s Day Sweet Parts of Speech

The Best Ways to Teach Revising and Editing

Martin Luther King Jr. Activity

More Writing Lessons for Narrative Writing

Guest Post with Rachel Lynette

Topic Sentences and Relevant Details

Fragments and Run-ons for Interactive Notebooks

Archaeology Dig- Fun!!!

Writing Process Using Narrative Writing

Interactive Notebook for 3rd Grade

Ideas for Writing

Paragraph Writing

Graphic Organizer

Reading Bulletin Boards for the Year

Weekly Teaching Idea- Prefix, Suffix, Stem

Guide Words

Limericks

Common Core Reading Log for 3rd Quarter

Santa’s Similes

Mystery Book Report- 5 Steps

Nursery Rhyme Mysteries