A Long Walk to Water Teaching Resources
Teaching A Long Walk to Water? These teaching resources will help supplement student learning about refugees, Sudan, and life in other countries.
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Building Personal Relationships with Your Students on the First Day of School
Get to know your students on the first day of school using this FREE relationship building activity to use with your grade 4 5 6 students on the first days of school.
Free Social Emotional Learning Lesson
Using the picture book, The Best Part of Me, students will improve their self esteem with this free lesson that will help guide social emotional learning in your classroom.
Helping Struggling Learners Feel Successful in Your Classroom
Have you ever felt that you had the perfect lesson set up and ready to go until you realized that it would be difficult for the struggling readers in your classroom? Unfortunately, as students age, the reading discrepancy in the classroom grows. Some students may have additional reading
One-pagers, Not Just for ELA Anymore
How to use one-pagers as a science project idea with grade 4 5 6 students.
How to Teach A Long Walk to Water
Learn different lessons and activities to use to teach the novel A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park with your grade 5 6 7 students.
How to Effectively Use Flipbooks in Your Classroom
Flipbooks are something that I really enjoy using in my secondary classroom. I have created different kinds of flipbooks across grade levels and subject areas for a variety of different tasks. Have you tried using flipbooks in your classroom? I am going to give you three reasons why you
Three Ways to Keep Your Sanity Throughout the Holidays in a Middle School Classroom
This year I teamed up with a group of secondary teachers to bring you fresh ideas on how to bring “comfort and joy” into your classrooms this holiday season in the Twelve Days of December Blog Hop. Comfort and joy in a December classroom might sound like an oxymoron. However, there
How to Use Quotes to Empower Students in Your Classroom
If you follow me on Instagram then you know how much I love a good quote. Whether it’s inspirational or funny, I can identify with so many. I enjoy sharing them out and finding ones that represent where I am currently as an educator and as a person. Over
How to Use Kami in your Home School and Distance Learning Classroom
Kami is an extension found in the Chrome Web Store that allows students to write directly on PDFs. This extension can make your home school, and remote or distance learning classroom run much smoother without having to reinvent the wheel and learn how to use digital technology. If your upper
Get to Know Your Students this Back to School Season
Free ideas to build relationships with your students to increase engagement and motivation in your grade 4 5 6 classroom.
Strategies to Encourage Independent Reading in Reluctant Learners
Getting struggling readers to read independently in the upper elementary school grades can be very difficult. Students as young as second and third grade start to realize what they are not good at and will often want to give up. As teachers, we try hard to continue to motivate and
