Math games should be meaningful and fun, all at the same time. You should feel confident that the math games you choose to use are rigorous enough to challenge your students, while also providing enough exposure to appropriate grade-level content. I CAN Math Games offer all of this, and more, making them the perfect math games…
A Daily Reading Review System for Reading Comprehension
One of the most effective ways to improve reading comprehension for all students is to include a quality daily reading review system into your routine. When you expose students to quality reading passages, accompanied by well-written text-dependent questions, magical things can happen. This is why I have spent the last few years working with a…
A Daily Math Review System for Homework or Classwork – Math Spiral Review
Math Spiral Review has proven to be the most effective resource in helping students practice and retain math standards all year long. Throughout my teaching career, I have dedicated hundreds of hours to creating the most effective math spiral review resources for the classroom. I am excited to be able to offer Math Spiral Reviews for…
Morning Work that Works with your Morning Routine
The importance of quality morning work is often overlooked in the elementary classroom. Your morning routine is the perfect time to set the stage for the day and sneak in some valuable learning time. If done right, your morning routine can be one of the most significant parts of your instructional day. Morning work should be…
Tips for Using Grammar Spiral Review
Spiral review is not one of those educational trends that inevitably comes storming through our classroom, just to disappear and be replaced by something new. Whether you are using it for math, reading, or grammar, spiral review is a tried and true method for aiding students in mastering and retaining what they’ve learned. It may seem like…
Student Binders: Improve Student Organization
Classroom organization is a key component to any successful classroom. As teachers, we want to make sure our students have a place for their homework, classwork, supplies, textbooks, notebooks, and anything else they will use in our classroom. Student Binders are the perfect way to set up students for a successful school year and teach them…
Tips for New Teachers: Lessons I Learned While Teaching
As I look back over my teaching career, I realize I made a ton of mistakes and also did a few things right along the way. This reflection made me realize that I’ve learned some valuable lessons and I want to share them with teachers everywhere. If you are reading this, I hope you…
Goodbye Reading Logs! Help Students Enjoy Reading
Getting students to read nightly because they want to is a pretty difficult task. We all know you really can’t make anyone do anything they don’t want to do. Kids are NO exception…not even a little bit. As teachers, it’s our job to find ways to motivate students to read nightly and share those tips with…
Boys & Education: How to Make Sure Active Boys are Learning
I’m excited to welcome Jennifer from Happy Teacher Mama as a guest blogger! She is here to give some helpful tips for teaching boys! Whether you are a classroom teacher or a homeschooler, you know that boys and girls are complete opposites when it comes to learning, behavior, interests, and pretty much any other area you…
Reading Homework: Making it Meaningful
As a teacher, I always made it my goal to make sure everything I did, or made my students do, was meaningful. Whether it be reading homework, math centers, or morning work, I didn’t like wasting time; my time or my students’ time. In addition, I always liked to know that real learning was taking…
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