
Unlocking Engagement: Independent Reading Activity Ideas
Do you have restless students during readers' workshop? Are you looking for ways to engage students with the text? I ...

Beyond Words: How Text Features Enhance Understanding
Students struggle using text features when reading expository text. We need to provide students the tools to understand what they ...

Pre reading Activities that Deepen the Understanding of Text
Pre-reading activities help the students prepare before reading. Like most things we do, planning happens first. Gardening, scrapbooking, and cooking ...

Visualize Ideas with Graphic Organizer Templates
What is a graphic organizer template? A graphic organizer templates is a template that is organizes ideas from what was ...

Idiom for the day: Uncover the Meaning Behind Common Expressions
Idiom for the day is a great way to involve students in learning how figurative language works. Having seasonal idioms ...

All About Me Activities: Fostering Self Expression and Connection
A Bio Poem Students enjoy writing about their hobbies and interests. A bio poem is a short poem for students ...

Suffix Success: Engaging Worksheets to Boost Vocabulary Skills
A suffix is one or more letters that are found at the end of a word. In the word, "cautious" ...

Practical Reading Strategies for Better Understanding
Reading strategies support comprehension in reading. They help scaffold the students' thinking, reading, note-taking skills, and writing. Reading Fiction Fictional ...

Literary Elements Graphic Organizers Unlock Stories
Literary graphic organizers can help guide the students' thinking as well as improve their sense of story. Literary elements are ...

Transforming Reading Groups: The Magic of Literature Circles
Literature Circles are a great way to have student led discussions. What is a literature circle? It is a small ...

Goal Setting Worksheets: Road Map to Success
Goal setting worksheets guide students on their journey similar to how a map guides us when taking a road trip ...

Study Habits: Transform Learning
Study habits are more important than ever before. My own children will be learning remotely this fall. I organized a ...

Bitmoji Classrooms: Tips and Tricks
Summer of 2019, I made a bitmoji using my iPhone. It was fun and relaxing. I had flashbacks on taking ...

Technology in Modern Literacy Assessment
Technology in literacy is engaging for students. Are you looking for ways to use technology to help monitor students? There ...

Book Reports Solutions: Templates for Busy Educators
Book reports templates provide a framework to explain the content of a book. Whether a student reports on a fiction ...

Path to Prefix Proficiency: Worksheets for Language Growth
Prefix Worksheets have an important role in word study. Prefixes as we know are composed of two or more letters ...

Characters in Focus: Engaging Analysis
Character analysis templates help students take notes on how the characters feel and act. As you begin to read fictional ...

Spelling Practice Unleashed: Strategies for Success
Spelling practice is an important component of any literacy program. I use word work as part of my middle school ...

Academic Conversation Starters for Thoughtful Interaction
For many years, I asked comprehension questions from the text and called on students to answer. The problem with that ...

How text structures shape understanding
Writers organize nonfiction text into five text structures. They are description, sequence, compare and contrast, cause and effect, problem and ...

Read Smarter, not Harder with Text Features
Text features for nonfiction are a great tool to help students focus on their reading. Most of the reading material ...