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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 Scarecrow Ideas
Scarecrows are a fun part of fall, and kindergarten and first grade children will find a special unit featuring them along with barns and animals to be enjoyable. more...
Simple October and Fall Classroom Activities
Fall provides teachers with opportunities to use easy writing prompts and creative projects. Students will enjoy writing about October, autumn, Halloween, and pumpkins. more...
Kindergarten and First Grade Pumpkin Unit Ideas
Kindergarten and first grade children find pumpkins naturally interesting so it is a great age for a special fall or October pumpkin unit with crafts, fun books and more! more...
Helping Young Children Read and Write at Home
By: Jane Kelly
Reading and writing development often "takes off" when children start school, so this is a really good time to give them all the support they need. more...
By: Jane Kelly
Literacy is often associated with starting school. However, early writing skills begin to develop before this, enabling schools to build on children's prior learning. more...
By: Jane Kelly
Homework is a contentious issue and opinion is often divided between those who favour it and those who do not. more...
By: Kathy Myers
Math can be a very dry subject, but using hands on activities can really hydrate the the experience. more...
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