If you’re teaching informational writing in grades 3–5, one of the biggest challenges students face is knowing how to start their sentences. Informational writing sentence starters, sometimes called informational paragraph…
“Turn and Talk” is a powerful, quick-response discussion technique that gives students a chance to process their thoughts out loud, practice active listening, and connect with their peers. If you’re…
Sentence stems and sentence frames are powerful tools for helping elementary school students, particularly English learners, learn academic language. Providing a scaffold of language to build on, sentence frames, sentence…
Are you wondering how you can provide valuable support for students’ reading comprehension, particularly for those who are still learning to read in English? These Reading Comprehension Bookmarks are designed…
Many teachers have English learners in their classrooms. I have a particular group of second-grade English learners who are struggling with reading fluency. They can read the words but are…
This Location and Map Skills Social Studies Unit teaches students about North American landforms, urban, rural, and suburban communities, grid maps, and family history. It is a perfect unit for…
Have you ever observed a teacher teaching a group of students and noticed how much the teacher talked vs the students? As a teacher, I have often had to stop…
Reading Comprehension can be difficult for students, even those with great reading skills. When we ask students to explain their thinking or write about what they read, it’s almost like…
Do your students struggle to express their thinking in math? Mine do! Developing students’ language skills by focusing on mathematical vocabulary and using sentence frames in math helps students learn the language…
Some students, including English learners or impoverished children, come to school not having the academic language at their fingertips to express their thinking. They have great things going on in…
Do you have a problem finding time to focus on Science in the early elementary grades? I find it challenging to find the time for science and as a result,…
I love working with students using complex academic language. It is so fun seeing light bulbs go off as I watch students construct new sentences using high level vocabulary and concepts. Of…
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