you may want to include a section with real samples of classroom rules & newsletters, parent notes, etc. so you have some inspiration when you've...
Just remembered another historical fiction book that I discovered this year - Blood on the River: James Town 1607. My high students really liked it!
For a WWII unit, Farewell to Manzanar and The Moon Bridge would be great for addressing Japanese internment (they're lower reading levels though)....
How have you responded so far to Child A and Child B?
I think the major struggles vary significantly by grade level; for the younger kids, decoding and fluency play a big role. For my older...
chalk is gis clothespins are horquillas (some people say pinzas) smock is bata stencil is plantilla ...and we use lavabo for sink.
The last two posts hit it dead-on... I co-teach with a resource teacher who initially taught with the other fifth grade teacher on my team. They...
Did you translate everything you needed?
Why don't you call the magnet program and ask the admissions person what they think? We have several middle school magnets that our students...
all the above posts echo what I think... I'd ask what you would do for struggling learners for whom testing strategies and standard curriculum are...
Texas has a 4th grade writing test next week; 5th grade starts testing for reading/math in early April and 3rd and 4th do those near the end of...
Have you talked to your teammates or consulted any professional literature about classroom management? What behavior management systems do you...
My student teacher has been struggling with transitions and attention getters. Some of the ones that are effective for me are: -chants (T: "Stop,...
I've found that using books where the movie is significantly different gives us tons to include in a Venn diagram... for both Coraline and The...
My Brother Sam is Dead (great tie-in if you do American History but it has strong language), The Lightning Thief (movie comes out Friday!)......
When I taught first, I got called mom at least once a day... in fifth it doesn't happen as regularly, but it happened yesterday so this thread...
I started taking courses during my fourth year of teaching... prior to that I wasn't sure if I wanted a Masters in Education or something else....
takscopes!!! it's all science based, but they have related reading passages and all released taks Qs that are relevant to each topic.
I agree with MrsC, definitely have a discussion about appropriate ways to express your emotions and post calming/response strategies for them to...
Encyclopedia Britanica has an elementary section... may be a smidge difficult but it's at least written at a lower level. Maybe Reading A to Z...
