Yearly Planning for Teachers: Free Curriculum Map Template
Yearly planning takes time up front, but it saves hours every week once the year is underway. A yearlong curriculum map gives you the big picture so that your daily…
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Yearly planning takes time up front, but it saves hours every week once the year is underway. A yearlong curriculum map gives you the big picture so that your daily…
Teaching students how to write an expository paragraph about animals can feel tricky, especially once you move past simple facts. Students often list information without organizing their ideas or explaining…
Teaching students to solve problems and better yet, work together to solve problems, is a key skill in elementary school. This cooperative learning resource is a structured activity where students…
Arrays and area models are two of the most important visual tools for teaching multiplication in elementary school. Teachers use these terms interchangeably, but they are actually two different representations…
As students start learning multiplication facts, modeling multiplication arrays in rows and columns is an effective strategy to visualize what is happening in the problems. Let’s explore fun and engaging…
Most second-grade math practice pages ask students to solve a problem and write an answer. That answer is either right or wrong, but without teacher feedback, students have no way…
Second graders are at a sweet spot with reading. They are ready for longer stories, strong characters, and running jokes that carry across chapters, but many are not quite ready…
Classroom community anchor charts do something that a list of rules posted on the wall cannot: they capture what students actually said, in their own words, about what it means…
A non-example in math is a problem, model, or situation that does NOT fit the definition of the concept being taught. Where an example shows students what something is, a…
Ever feel like your classroom wish list keeps growing, but your budget doesn’t? That’s where DonorsChoose comes in. It’s one of the easiest ways to get classroom materials, books, furniture,…
Have you ever moved into a brand-new classroom? I had that opportunity after moving rooms three times in about 18 months. Here is a tour of my 2013-2014 second-grade classroom…
A few years ago, a special education teacher at a staff meeting pulled out a vertical number line and showed how she used it with her students. I filed it…
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