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Reading Strategy Lesson: Questioning, Grades 3 & 4

For the last two years, questioning has been a school-wide goal where I work. We started by looking at the types of questions we were asking students. We then began to very...

Treat Your Students with the Grammar Land Game Board, Grades 3–12

With an 11 and 9-year-old at home, board games are a great way to spend a weekend evening. Knowing how much we enjoy playing board games at home, I began to wonder about...

Pin the Part of Speech on the Pig Grammar Game (K–5)

The Pin the Part of Speech on the Pig Grammar Game combines learning the parts of speech and a modified version of the game Pin the Tail on the Donkey. For each day of the...

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Rainbows & Rainclouds Phonics Game

Grades K–3

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Grades 3–12+

Go Fish Vocabulary Game, Grades 1–12

Today I'm sharing a fun, relatively quick vocabulary game that helps students master a few of their trickier vocabulary words! The idea came to me when perusing official...

Rethinking Grammar: This Ain’t Your Momma’s Instruction Book, Grades 6–12

My mom likes to tell a story about her high school English teacher, who carried a ruler and rapped students’ knuckles when they struggled with grammar exercises. Instruction...

Interactive Read Aloud: White Socks Only

This critical thinking lesson is an example of an interactive read aloud that can be modified to use with grades K-5 utilizing the Revised Bloom’s Cognitive Process...

Genrifying Your Classroom Library

I love a great library, whether it it’s my school library or my classroom library, and I have found that the best way to get students the books they want is to organize the...

Vocabulary Checkers Game, Grades 1–12

I adored playing checkers growing up, and I thought that a vocabulary version would be fun and easy to play, as well as a great review for students. ...

Interactive Read Aloud of The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi

This critical thinking lesson is an example of an interactive read aloud that can be modified to use with grades K-5 utilizing the Revised Bloom’s Cognitive Process...

Snow Day Details Vocabulary Activity, Grades 1–8

Last year when many of us were experiencing severe "Polar Vortex" storms, I shared a simple writing activity where students describe their ideal snow day using vocabulary...

Picabulary Vocabulary Game, Grades 3–12

Although I am a terrible artist, I do enjoy the odd round of Pictionary every now and again. It is quite easy to play a simplified version of the game with your students as a...

Interactive Read Aloud of Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts

This Critical Thinking Interactive Read Aloud of Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts provides the thought-provoking questions essential to every interactive read aloud. Your...

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