5 Ways to Teach Setting and Engage Your Students
…make connections. Students learn to pay attention to the “when” and “where” as they read and make inferences about the text. Here are 5 lessons to teach when you are…
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Making a Movie in Your Mind: Strengthening Comprehension with Visualizing
…If you are able to highlight in the text, highlight descriptive words that stick out to you and ask the student to describe what that would look like. Visualizing should…
You Matter: Activities to Build Self-Love
…message that the pages will bring is that we all matter. Imagine students hearing those words and feeling the encouragement that they bring. The book is filled with text and…
March Activities for Upper Elementary Students
…questions about the holiday. Reading a nonfiction passage about St. Patrick’s Day is an important way for students to learn more about this special day and its history. Nonfiction texts…
Favorite Upper Elementary Read-Aloud Books & Activities for November
…passage and complete repeated close reading, answering questions about the holiday while digging deep into the main idea, inferencing, vocabulary, and text structure. Another way to celebrate the Day of…
Celebrating Women’s History Month in the Classroom
…Displaying text with women that students may not know much about will give them the opportunity to look through the books and choose someone that is intriguing. Reading a book…
I Need A Hug: 5 Meaningful Activities About Friendship
…text. The dialogue can help students with making predictions about what the characters might be thinking or saying on the wordless pages. The illustrations lend themselves really well to drawing…
Why is Reading Aloud Important?
…single largest predictors of higher academic achievement. Students are exposed to a variety of text, vocabulary, writing styles, and more. Reading aloud helps build vocabulary, models writing skills, and builds…
Tomorrow Most Likely: Activities That Activate Students’ Imaginations
…opportunities with their hobbies, extracurricular activities, family time or memories, or anything that they see as an opportunity. 2. Imagine it The story is just such a great imaginative text…