I’ve been an elementary school reading teacher, a reading interventionist, and now a reading instructional coach. I’ve had so much fun compiling this list of the best, most appropriate books for 5th graders. Some are timeless treasures and others are modern winners. Most are likely to inspire some social emotional learning and expand the imagination….
I’ve been an elementary school reading teacher, a reading interventionist, and now a reading instructional coach. Plus, I’ve got a 7 year old daughter who is obsessed with reading! I’ve had so much fun compiling this list of the best chapter books for 6th graders. In fact, this list was supposed to be just 10…
I taught third graders for several years, and I’m now an instructional coach for elementary school reading teachers. Plus, I’ve got a little girl at home who is an avid reader. All of the books below are currently on our shelf at home, and I’ve used several of them as classroom texts. These are the…
Hey teacher! Maybe you’ve seen a coworker with “Maslow Before Bloom” on a tee shirt, or perhaps you’re in a college class answering a question on a message board. Either way, you’ll hear this refrain casually uttered in professional development pretty regularly. The subtitle of the book “Maslow Before Bloom” is actually “basic human needs…
So many teachers at our school struggled when we first began to utilize iStation in our elementary school classrooms. We had to give every student at least 30 – 45 minutes each week on the program, and of course, factor in time at the start of every month for an iStation test. One of the…
Maybe this is your first time hearing about secret student, or you learned about it at a professional development long ago and have forgotten the concept. Either way, I’m about to train you up FAST, because playing this game has always been a great way to get my elementary school goofballs back on track. One…
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