Primary School Curriculum
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Poetry Themed Bulletin Boards for Primary Kids
Teachers can use classroom bulletin boards as a visual aid to teach students about different types of poems, how to write poetry, and to display kids' writing. more...
How to Teach Elementary Kids to Make Predictions
Primary students use the author's picture clues in The Mitten to practice the prediction reading comprehension strategy and write and illustrate a winter themed story. more...
How To Use a Word Wall to Teach Reading Skills
Primary students learn sight words, sounds, rhymes, word patterns, and spelling skills during reading and writing lessons featuring a classroom Word Wall. more...
Writer's Workshop for Elementary Kids
Teachers use writing, researching, grammar, vocabulary and spelling mini-lessons along with rubrics and conferencing to teach primary students to use the writing process. more...
Word Splash Vocabulary Strategy for Primary Kids
Primary school teachers can motivate students to learn new words and definitions in math, science, and social studies using the Word Splash vocabulary strategy. more...
The Reciprocal Teaching Primary Reading Strategy
The four parts of the reciprocal teaching reading strategy teach elementary students to comprehend and decode text by predicting, clarifying, questioning and summarizing. more...
How to use the Language Experience Approach reading strategy, or LEA, with beginning readers to increase elementary students' ability to decode and comprehend text. more...
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Kindergarten and First Grade Fall Unit Ideas
Every primary teacher teaches a fall unit. These autumn themed lesson ideas and read aloud suggestions are quick and easy and work well in September and October. more...
Effective Vocabulary Strategies for K-8 Students
Pre-reading and post-reading vocabulary instruction improves conceptual understanding of content, literary comprehension, thinking skills, and oral or written expression. more...
Teaching Young Children to Read
By: Jane Kelly
A key skill for beginner readers is "reading for meaning" - the ability to glean meaning from picture cues and predict what the text might be about. more...
Waldorf School Third Grade Curriculum
By:
Christine Mann
The Waldorf third-grade curriculum teaches children how humans have grown food, clothed themselves, and built dwellings through history. more...
Free April and Spring Themed Lesson Plan Ideas
April is full of important spring events such as National Poetry Month, Arbor Day, and John James Audubon's birthday. Enjoy these creative writing prompts and ideas. more...
By: Rebecca Hersh
While state standards help guide education, individual schools choose their own curricula. When it comes to math, many teachers are turning to Everyday Mathematics. more...
Waldorf View of Child Development from Ages 0-6
By:
Christine Mann
Waldorf schools divide a child's development into 7-year phases. In the first seven years, the curriculum focuses on exploring the physical world through the senses. more...
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