Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Alien Tour: Show Me Your Landforms

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3 landform projects given to kids by Vladimir the Extraterrestrial! Vladimir sends the kids 3 postcards from Saturn via a space capsule ...
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Saturday, October 1, 2016

Rock Band Storypath

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Storypath units promote children as active participants in their own learning. Students learn about topics through cross-curricular conn...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Entomology: Cross-Curricular Learning

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Kids have fun investigating insects in their natural habitat! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VSK6HrKelgtudsf66-B3jeZ8On5L4Ywh/vie...
Thursday, August 11, 2016

5 Olympic Activities

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Check out my post at We Are Teachers: 5 Olympic Activities that Integrate Core Subjects !
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

5 Quick Ways to Assess Writing

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Check out my post at We Are Teachers : Easy and quick ways for grading students' writing and addressing common errors! Click here fo...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

10 Grammar Mistakes and How to Fix Them!

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Visit We Are Teachers to check out my post for Zaner Bloser: 10 Grammar Mistakes that Drive Teachers Crazy and How to Fix Them!
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Friday, October 24, 2014

Word Choice!

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Help students expand their vocabulary and make their writing more descriptive by switching up their words!  Introduction video: WORD...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

The Bones of a Good Essay

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Check out my post at We Are Teachers : Teach students about how to write a good essay - free task cards (visual / tactile learning) and bo...
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Tuesday, October 7, 2014

5 Peer Revision Strategies

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Visit We Are Teachers to see my post sponsored by Zaner Bloser: 5 Peer Revision Strategies That Actually Work!   Click here for the wr...
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Saturday, October 4, 2014

Big, Bigger, Biggest Sentence!

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This whole group activity helps students learn about sentence stretching from their peers. They work as a group and learn b...
Monday, September 29, 2014

11 Quotes to Kickstart Your Lessons

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Visit We Are Teachers to view my post sponsored by Zaner Bloser: 11 Quotes About Writing to Kickstart Your Lessons!
Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Bubble Gum Exploration

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Cross-curricular learning with bubble gum: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MNYQ30GsdJD1oSyImNqL73bFqz-HYGfS/view?usp=sharing Math: Gra...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Stacked: Learning with Styrofoam Cups

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Check out my post at We Are Teachers: Ways to teach English Language Arts (featured above), Math, Social Studies, and Science using styrof...
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Monday, July 14, 2014

Pass The Plate Poetry

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Students are split up into teams. Each team is given a plastic plate with a topic written on it and a dry erase marker. The team must bra...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Inkle

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Inkle is a fun digital storytelling tool for kids. Students can collaborate and create a Choose Your Own Adventure story! Each child ...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Corners: Punctuation & Sentences

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This fun game comes from Color Me Kinder ! Children run to one of the corners of the classroom that have punctuation marks or senten...
Friday, May 9, 2014

Warhol Arrays

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Students collaborate and create giant array of soup can art! Give each student one soup can template . They come up with a unique flavor, ...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Action Verbs

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Objective : Students will silently act out action verbs and try to guess what verbs their peers act out. Objective : Wearing special...
Thursday, February 6, 2014

Text-to-Self Connection

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T-Chart – Lola / Class (create after reading first few pages) On the side that says Lola, write down all the food she does not like. T...
Saturday, June 8, 2013

Venn Creature

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Kids mash two creatures together to create a new animal! After they create (draw or photoshop) their creature, have them name it and des...
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