13 Ways to Make Writing Fun
Have you ever been so excited about a lesson to only be met with groans and moans from your students? This happens almost ever...
Grammar and Writing
16 Engaging Classroom Activities for October
It's finally fall! Time to break out the Pumpkin Spice, Fall decor, and my monthly-themed activities for October. Cross-curricu...
15 Handwriting Activities for Students
Handwriting is an important skill for young learners. As teachers, we are always searching for new handwriting activities to ma...
19 Classroom Activities for September
Overwhelmed! Exhausted! So much to do! Send help! And it is only September! Are you even a teacher if you are not feeling any o...
31 Activities To Celebrate Summer Holidays
We all know that Summer School is an entirely different beast than teaching during the regular school year! So, trust me when I...
Summer Activity Packets for Primary Students
“Summertime and the living is easy…” as Ella Fitzgerald once sang. Not bragging, but I am lounging by the pool with my beverag...
25 Fun Rainy Day Activities
“Rainy Days and Mondays always get me down” as The Carpenters once sang. Well, for me they are half right. The latter part on...
20 Easy Prep Earth Day Activities
Although Earth Day is Every Day in my mind (right?), the official annual date of April 22nd is approaching fast! I love teachin...
21 Spring Activities for Primary Teachers
Spring is in the air and I am ready to bring out the fun science projects, read-alouds, and outdoor activities. This time of ye...
13 Ideas to Support your Gifted Students
Typically, as teachers, we put more time and energy into focusing on the students that have fallen behind or are struggling. T...
9 Ways to Engage Your Students During Reading Block
For many of us, our reading block lasts anywhere from 90-120 minutes every day. That time is extremely important because it is...
10 Strategies for Teaching Emergent Writers
Teaching the writing process to emergent writers is one of my favorite activities to do each school year. The growth that is s...
22 Engaging Distance Learning Resources
It is the phrase that we all dread “Your class has to go on quarantine for the next (insert number) days.” We have to prepare t...
Teaching Tips for Your Students with Dyslexia
Students with Dyslexia are sometimes the most challenging students to figure out! They seem brilliant at specific tasks but the...
10 Reasons to Try Directed Drawings in Your Primary Classroom
Drawing has been and always will be such a calming activity for me. As a child, I was always doodling in my notebooks, drawing ...
Homework in the Primary Classroom?
The topic of homework seems to be a hot-button issue in education lately. Do we give it to students? Do we not? If we provid...
33 Teacher Ideas for Using Student Whiteboards
Do you have a set of student whiteboards for all of the kids in your class? I have tons of student whiteboards, but in all hone...
The Benefits of an ETTC Membership
Teachers, there is so much on our plates this year. It feels like every teacher could use a 4 week paid vacation to the tropica...
Anchor Charts For Your Primary Classroom
"Every sentence begins with a _____ and ends with a ______." I repeated for the tenth time within a 30 minute writing lesson. ...
9 Reasons Your Students Will Love Interactive Notebooks
I'll admit... I wasn't on the interactive notebooks train when it was presented to me (read: mandated with zero background or f...
23 Teaching Writing Books
When it comes to teaching writing, I didn't learn a whole lot in my teacher prep program. It is a skill I have honed over time....
20 Free Teacher Worksheets to Start the Year
The beginning of the school year is a time of excitement and eagerness to meet your new students. It is also a time of stress a...
9 Reasons Why Journaling is So Important
Journaling with students... Who's got the time? My love for journals started with the locked journal in the Scholastic Book Cl...
60 Spelling Activities for Elementary Students
How many hours a week do you spend prepping spelling activities? ? What if you had a resource that would allow you to create 60...
32 No Prep Activities Perfect for Individual Centers
Individual centers are nothing new...whether pre/post-COVID or in the thick of it, I use them with my students. Center learning...
15 Art Ideas for Every Subject!
Art is a passion for me and such a huge part of a child's education. Not only am I a blog author, but I am also an illustrator....
25 Hands On Spelling Activities for Any List
Memories flash back to me standing alongside my peers in Elementary School. My fingers are crossed behind my back, standing st...
13 Fun Ways to Get Reluctant Writers Writing
As educators, sometimes we need to get creative! In one of my first years teaching First Grade, I found myself standing in fro...
13 Digital Resources and Games for Sight Words
Sight words. While there is disagreement on what should make up that list and at what level, we know that they are important t...
25 Digital Resources for Teaching Grammar
Teaching grammar doesn't instill a sense of joy in the hearts of many teachers. Likewise, you don't hear students often raving ...
12 Strategies for Teaching Students to Edit
Let’s be real. Editing can be exhausting. So why do it? We do it to improve our writing craft in a way that takes our writing f...
10 Fun Poetry Activities for Elementary Students
Poetry in the classroom can be very fun.There are different activities for everyone.Your students will love it and always shout...
7 Ways to Write Without a Pencil
As educators, sometimes we need to get creative! One of my first years teaching First Grade, I found myself standing in front ...
Writing Tips From REAL Teachers: Letters Strings to Sentences
Writing... it can be quite the beast to teach! Especially when you have students who write only letter strings. How do you ta...
30 Fun Spelling Activities for Primary
We spend countless hours creating spelling practice activities for our primary students that are fun and not just writing the w...
Activities to Teach Phonics and Math
Little hands need to be manipulating items during learning. And I'm not talking about a touchpad or mouse... What if you could ...
47 Boredom Busters for Kids at Home
For many of us, school is happening at home to help keep our students, staff, and families healthy during the Covid-19 pandemic...
10 No Prep Activities to Include in Your Send Home Packets
So you found out you need to make 1-2 week's worth of send home plans, and you need to put something together ASAP! Education t...
30 Spelling Activities for ANY List of Words
We work hard to teach our students how to spell words correctly—and we spend countless h...
7 Informational Text Activities for Primary Students
It is easy to create or search for activities related to fictional literature, but what about informational text?! Most of th...
How to Get Going on Your Grammar Wall
Let's face it... teaching grammar can be pretty boring... LOL With that said though, Grammar Walls are becoming a necessary it...
Grammar Wall Games for the Classroom
We all have those times when we only have 5 minutes before going to lunch, specials, leaving for the day, etc. Here are some q...
24 Easy to Implement Phonics Activities
Phonics is the back bone of almost all reading instruction. As a teacher of young primary students, we spend countless hours o...
Literacy Centers: Your Top Questions Answered
You asked, and I am here to answer! Play the video below to get your burning questions answered when it comes to our 1st and 2n...
May Literacy Centers for 2nd Grade
I can't wait to share our May Literacy Centers lineup with you! But first, I just have to share some amazing feedback we have b...
April Literacy Centers for 2nd Grade
Diphthong Sort: This center encourages students to read words with diphthongs and then sort them. The bags give so much nov...
Literacy Centers Done Right
You might already know the many different options in which you can run your literacy centers. You can have students work in rot...
March Literacy Centers for 2nd Grade
Man...we did it again! 10 AMAZING Literacy Centers to start your month on the right foot! The Root of it All: Students w...
February Literacy Centers for 2nd Grade
Our February Centers are here and ready to be printed! You will find many different engaging activities that incorporate so man...
2nd Grade Literacy Centers for January
2nd Grade Literacy Centers for January are HERE! Here’s what will be inside once you open the January folder of the Bundle! ...
2nd Grade Literacy Centers for December
Here's what will be inside once you open the December folder of the Bundle! Suffix Word Building:This is great for vocabulary...
10 November Centers for 2nd Grade
We are happy to feature TEN more 2nd Grade Literacy Centers for the month of November! You will find a variety of phonics, lang...
1st Grade Literacy Centers for August
First Grade Literacy Centers for AUGUST are here! Kick-start your year with meaningful, intentional centers to get your student...
1st Grade Center Activities for July
I am in LOVE with the new centers we have for you this July. I was sure to include a variety of Literacy Centers you can use w...
1st Grade Centers Activities for June
If you teach first grade, this is the magical time where many of your students are making the shift of “learning to read” to ...
10 Easy to Prep Literacy Centers Ideas for May
May is almost here! If you teach first grade, this is the magical time where many of your students are making the shift of "lea...
April Literacy Centers for First Grade
10 More First Grade Literacy Centers await you! I can't wait to share what I've had up my sleeve this month! Each month I rele...
1st Grade Literacy Centers for March
I can’t be more excited to share my March Centers with you! You will find a variety of phonics, language, vocabulary, and liste...
First Grade Literacy Centers for February
We can’t be more excited to share our February Centers with you! You will find a variety of phonics, language, vocabulary, and ...
Organizing Your Literacy Centers in 3 Easy Steps
Fact: Organizing your Literacy Centers can be a nightmare. Consider this scenario: You find the perfect centers, print, laminat...
First Grade Literacy Centers for January
We can’t be more excited to share our January Centers with you! You will find a variety of phonics, language, vocabulary, a...
December Literacy Centers for First Grade
We can’t be more excited to share our December Centers with you! You will find a variety of phonics, language, vocabulary, and...
November Centers for First Grade
We can’t be more excited to share our November Centers for first grade with you! You will find a variety of phonics, language...
September Centers for First Grade
We can't be more excited to share our September Centers with you! You will find a variety of phonics, language, vocabulary, a...
10 Reasons Why Every Primary Classroom Should Have a Grammar Wall
Grammar walls have been all the hype lately. But what's the big deal? Well, it's time to stop wondering! Here are 10 reasons ...
Teaching Grammar Using Interactive Notebooks
As a primary teacher, it can be very difficult fitting in grammar instruction into your day. I also have a little secret you...
Integrating Writer's Workshop Into Your Reading Block
If you are looking to integrate writing into your reading block, you will find an easy and efficient way to make this possible ...