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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 the one time
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25 Activities to Teach Place Value
Have you ever noticed that once you introduce place value to your students that it continues to spiral back into your lessons almost every week?
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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
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23 Classroom Activities for Dental Health Month
“Brush-a, brush-a brush-a”… anytime I pick up a toothbrush I act like the sleepover scene in the movie “Grease”. This is of course before
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13 Student Engagement Strategies That Work
It’s always the first thing my principal does when she walks into my classroom. Quickly scanning my students, she counts how many are on task
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Ideas for Engaging Students with Fluency Passages
Improving reading fluency in our students is one of the main goals of any elementary school teacher. I personally struggle with finding additional resources to
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Making the Most of Your Sound Wall
Should I put a sound wall up in my classroom? Perhaps you were like me and wanted to, but didn’t know what to do with
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Top 10 Websites for Primary Printables
How many times a week do you type in the search bar “worksheets for ___”? You only need a worksheet to cover a certain skill
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Teaching Holidays Around the World in 7 Easy Steps
Do you have a special set of activities that you do with your students during the weeks leading up to winter break? Are you looking
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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 tropical
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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
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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 has always been my jam.