Professional development is one strategy that principals can use to support teachers as they work to increase student achievement. The days of the sit-and-get professional...
In this post, you'll find 10 summer learning activities parents and teachers can use engage kids in summer writing. Download and print them now! Summer Learning Activities...
The ability to write effectively and communicate ideas through writing are essential for working in the real world. Outside of writing instruction, students need dedicated...
I fondly remember my favorite teachers. How one instilled a love of reading. How another used humor. How another truly cared about me. Today, I love hearing my own children...
Teaching revision is crucial to the development of all students’ writing abilities. Revision is the stage in which students grow as writers, readers, and thinkers. In this...
High school students have the opportunity to learn a great deal by studying Shakespeare. Students enhance their vocabulary, study the human experience, learn about form and...
Spring brings with it both pleasant weather and the interesting dynamic of nearing the end of the school year – which can be exhausting – as well as promises of refreshing...
April 22 is Earth Day, and this provides teachers with an opportunity to encourage students to get involved in persevering their own communities! With these printable Earth...
With schools closed because of the COVID-19, educators are faced with figuring out how to keep kids learning while not burdening parents/guardians with overseeing detailed...
Social media has become a powerful tool for teaching and learning. Wouldn’t it be fun to edit spelling, grammar, and punctuation in a relevant and meaningful way? In this...
Lets explore the importance of teaching informative/explanatory writing in the classroom. Students need to have the ability to clearly convey concepts and information in...
Apart from the period, the comma is arguably the most used (but most misused) punctuation mark we have in the English language. In this article, I’m going comma crazy and...
