Happy day, friends and welcome to Chapter 7 of our Daily 5 book study - Foundation Lessons. Today we're talking about the explicit routines and procedures we teach students for each round of ...
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Apps Every Teacher Should Have
My 1st year of teaching 5th grade, I was blessed to be a 1:1 iPad classroom. Every day involved tech-based learning and it was amazing how little paper we used! Last year, I moved cities/schools and ...
Word Work: Sentence Scramble
Hello, friends! Today I wanted to share about one of our favorite Word Work centers - sentence scramble/mixed-up sentences. In full disclosure, this is a high-maintence center. It does ...
Daily 5 Foundation Lessons: Chapter 6
Happy day, friends and welcome to Chapter 6 of our Daily 5 book study - Foundation Lessons. Today we're talking about the explicit routines and procedures we teach students for each round of the Daily ...
Classroom Must-Haves: Resources I Love
Today I'm sharing some of my classroom 'must-haves'. These are resources that have paid dividends for me, completely worth the expense. We use these resources every single week, if not daily. I've ...
Launching Read to Self: Daily 5, Chapter 5
Happy day, friends and welcome to Chapter 5 of our Daily 5 book study - Launching Read to Self. If you've missed any of the chapters before this, no worries! You can catch-up using the links below, ...
Character Traits & Synonyms Subway Art
Happy Thursday, Friends! Today I'm blogging live from Las Vegas, as I join over 1,000 other sellers from the Teachers Pay Teachers community. On Tuesday I presented for SDE on Writing Strategies for ...
Teaching Students to Organize Writing
Teaching Students to Organize Writing Teaching 5th grade writing, essay after essay, I saw my students struggle to organize writing their ideas and paragraphs. They would have great ideas, but they ...
The Daily 5: What Do I Need to Begin, Chapter 4
Hello friends! Today is a simple post with the nuts-and-bolts of Daily 5 - What do I need to get started? I've shared some of my favorite materials for Daily 5, and then, at the end of the post, you ...
Differentiating Word Problems: An Easy Solution
Numberless word problems are math exercises that intentionally do not include numbers. They encourage students to understand the problem's structure, context, and relationships before introducing ...
Building Independence with the Daily 5 Book, Chapter 3
Building independence is the most critical part of setting-up Daily 5 in our classrooms. Without independence, we would never be able to pull small groups, confer with students, or assess growth. ...
Pic Collages: Technology-Based Assessment
Hello, friends! Today I want to share one of my passions with you - non-traditional assessments - in the mode of an authentic way of assessing students using technology-based pic collages. Why Pic ...