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Make guided reading time effective and stress-free. Read about my solution to making guided reading groups and independent reading time rigorous.

CCSS Halloween ELA, Math & Science centers and activities for kindergarten! Sight word booklets, science activities, literacy centers and more! $

This year's Daily 5 board that includes the math options. One of the storage areas for Daily 5 Math. Build an Equation Number Puzzles Building Tallies Most of the game ideas {if not all of them} came from Renee over at The Reading Corner!!! Doing Daily 5 Math this year has worked wonders for my students' math comprehension. We start our math block {system required 90 uninterrupted minutes, which means they want straight math with no bouncing back & forth between math and RLA} with the Topic…

So a little while back I shared my guided reading toolbox with you. If you missed that post, click {here} or the picture below. It talks about some of the goodies I keep on hand to use during my guided reading lessons! Then a few weeks ago I was guest blogging over at the Hameray Publishing blog, where I shared a few more ideas about how I use some of my favourite tools. I also shared a freebie guided reading notebook cover that you can download. Go check it out {here} or by clicking the…

Chunky Monkey, Stretchy Snake and more fun animals to help kids with reading! These reading strategy cards are great for guided reading.

FREE Common Core Aligned Math Names uses student names (or any word, really), vowels, and consonants to show what you know in math.... Show the Vs and Cs in your name with number bonds, number sentences, and fact families. 6 different versions. Black and white and color. 1.OA.B.3 K.OA.A.3

Student-led reading groups in an upper elementary classroom. This contains a self-assessment piece (FREEBIE!):

Thank you sweet Jesus for the 3 day weekend. I'm tired...and sleeping in sounds better than a million bucks right now. Not kidding. ...

Math manipulatives aren't just for math anymore! (I have to give a shout out to my co-teacher, Joy, for starting the craze!) They work quite well as pieces for reading center activities. As you can see in the picture, I used Unifix cubes to make this center activity. They hold the letters to create a picture to beginning sound match. I purchased a set of foam cubes at Dollar Tree today. I plan on using those to make the other sets. There are several activities in this set: letter to…

A few months back I posted the 10 Activities for Learning Letters and Sounds activity kit that I developed for a few first graders who hadn’t yet mastered letters and sounds. The idea behind the kit was to provide fun, hands-on activities for either classroom voluteers or parents to work with their child at home. […]

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I’m writing this tutorial as I sit at my kitchen island, eating a scone and drinking a coffee. I know what you’re thinking – this teacher has time to sit down?! Oh yeah, sit, eat and have a coffee. Here’s my secret. I’m an idealist. I want to give my students everything they need for success and that includes lots of descriptive feedback. I’m sure, like many of you, I was doing this to my own detriment. I was spending so many hours carefully going through assignments and projects to give…

Doctopus and Goobric Directions with Pictures for Easy Grading on Google Classroom

Guest post by April Smith One of my goals at the beginning of this school year was parent engagement. In the past, our school has sent home between 3-5 flyers

I am always looking for ways to streamline data collection. In the past, I was only tracking the behavior of students if it was related to an IEP goal, or if we were beginning to notice a spike in behavior. And while this worked, it isn't always enough. This year I found a way to track all of my students' behavior in less than one minute a day... AND I don't even need to pick up a pen! To make this happen, I use two things: Google Forms (check below for the FREEBIE!) and an Amazon Fire…

Read on to learn my favorite way to print with color ink on a budget! This is the best service I have found for teachers to print in color and save money.

There is an add-on specifically for Google Forms that will AUTOMATICALLY grade responses! It reduced my grading tremendously!

Tutorial: Learn how to sew a chair bag - a simple bag that hangs over the back of a chair with a pocket for school books or folders.

I’m here today to offer five quick tips for your first day of school. I don’t know about you, but when I was in college, I was given LITTLE instruction on what to do on that first day. However, over the years, I have picked up a few little tricks that work well for me. […]

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