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Best Christmas Books for Elementary Kids
The best Christmas books for primary kids include The Polar Express, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, If You Take a Mouse to the Movies, and The Night Before Christmas.
Best Thanksgiving Books for Elementary Kids
The Night Before Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving is for Giving Thanks, One Little Two Little Three Little Pilgrims, and 10 Fat Turkeys are fun Thanksgiving books for kids.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Language Experience Approach
How to use the Language Experience Approach reading strategy, or LEA, with beginning readers to increase elementary students' ability to decode and comprehend text.