Are you getting the most from all those sets of task cards that you’ve bought (or made!)? Or do you tend to use a set for one lesson and then just stash it away in your handy task card organizer? You could be getting more out of your task cards! To start, as you accumulate […]
Summer – while it is NOT the free time for teachers that so many people assume it is, it is the one time of year when a teacher can work in a relaxed way! What a rare opportunity – to be able to sit down with a cup of coffee and think for a while […]
Happy spring! Here’s a set of spring bookmarks that I just finished putting together. If you would like a set to print and copy for your students, you can download a copy below. Bookmarks make such neat little prizes or gifts, and with four per page they don’t take a ton of printing. Print them […]
There are so many ways to teach the essential reading comprehension skill of making inferences and so many places to find good source materials for your lessons! Fiction, informational texts, persuasive texts, really short passages, really long ones, even pictures – all of these can be great source material. Answering comprehension questions correctly […]
Just a reminder that TPT’s big sitewide sale has started! So in case you have items stashed in your shopping just waiting for the right moment – the time is now. (Or even if you just love browsing through teaching materials while they’re on sale!) Dates: August 30 – 31, 2022 As […]
As a middle school teacher, I knew that it was important to incorporate movement into my lessons – to let out some of that boundless middle school energy. But I could also see that movement could get distracting really fast, especially too much movement. That’s why, whenever I create a new set of […]
Just a reminder that TPT’s big sitewide sale has started! So in case you have items stashed in your shopping just waiting for the right moment – the time is now. (Or even if you just love browsing through teaching materials while they’re on sale!) Dates: August 2-3, 2022 As usual, everything […]
