Primary School Curriculum
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Exercise in the Elementary School Classroom
Teachers can increase learning potential with short bouts of classroom exercise. Physical movement stimulates & increases thinking, memory, motivation and concentration.
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Conducting a Poetry Workshop in a K-3 Classroom
Teachers can reinforce letter-sound relationships, develop reading skills, and provide essential practice with oral language skills through the use of a poetry workshop.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Helping Young Children Read and Write at Home
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.
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Learning to Write in School
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.
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Homework in the Early Years
Homework is a contentious issue and opinion is often divided between those who favour it and those who do not.
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Making Math Fun
Math can be a very dry subject, but using hands on activities can really hydrate the the experience.
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Learning to Write in the Early Years
By the age of four or five years, most children have started to show an interest in mark-making and are ready to learn conventional writing (letters, sounds and words).
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Learning Through Play
A play-based curriculum is now widely considered to be the most appropriate approach for facilitating young children's learning and development.
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Teaching Children Neat Handwriting
Early years practitioners will have their own views about how children should be taught to write, and schools, in particular, may have a policy dedicated to handwriting.
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How to Read Stories to Children
Stories can inspire many emotions in children - wonder, excitement, trepidation, joy, to name but a few. Story-telling can be rewarding to both the listener and narrator.
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The Early Years Foundation Stage
There has been a gradual shift in early years and this has culminated in the revised Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Curriculum in England (DfES, 2007).
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Project CHILD: Technology Works for Kids
An innovative program developed at Florida State University by Dr. Sally Butzin in 1988 helps thousands of children today, using computers as one of its main components.
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Developing Children's Sight Vocabulary
Phonics is a highly effective reading and spelling strategy for phonetically regular words, but others will need to taught using a "whole-word" approach.
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Teaching Children Sound-building Skills
The main approach to reading and spelling in English schools is systematic phonics, which teaches children to recognise the sound and spelling patterns within words.
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Multi-sensory Phonics – Teaching the S Sound
The current approach to teaching reading and spelling in English schools, is that of high quality systematic phonics using multi-sensory techniques.
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Phonics – What is the New Approach?
The main approach to the teaching of reading and spelling in English schools is that of systematic or synthetic phonics.
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What Should Young Children Read?
Learning to read is an important process and can be daunting for concerned families keen to support their children's first steps and provide suitable reading materials.
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Increasing Reading Fluency in Beginning Readers
Teachers can assist young readers in becoming more fluent, while increasing comprehension, vocabulary, and the motivation to read a variety of texts at the same time.
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Teaching Your Child to Write His or Her Name
Most children love experimenting with drawing and writing. Mark-making is an important aspect of creativity and early literacy development.
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When Should a Child Learn to Write?
Mark-making is a key aspect of early literacy development and is a precursor to more formal writing and spelling.
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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.
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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.
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