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Are you always trying to find new ways to build reading comprehension with your students? I’m sure you are! Teachers work so hard to ensure
Are you always trying to find new ways to build reading comprehension with your students? I’m sure you are! Teachers work so hard to ensure
Are you always looking for new ways to support your gifted and talented students? I’m sure you are! However, finding quality strategies to implement directly
Are you always trying to encourage students to actually use text evidence? Does it become exhausting going over the importance of doing so every day
If you’re anything like me, you’re always looking for new and unique ways to help differentiate for your students. Especially in reading, where differentiation is
Have you looked at your standards lately? I bet if you did, you probably noticed the words ‘complex text’ in there somewhere. This vague term
Aren’t we lucky to have such amazing jobs? Being a teacher isn’t something to take for granted! We are lucky to be in a field
So let’s face it. Teaching in whole group is inevitable and it’s important! Students receive many benefits from whole group teaching. But that doesn’t mean
Finding the right mentor text to use for your mini-lessons or interactive read-alouds is sometimes just a click away! One of my favorite parts about
Ok, let’s face it. Even if teachers had 2+ more hours in the day, they still wouldn’t get everything done they need/want to. The day
Who doesn’t love Valentine’s Day? Even if you’re not a fan of the mushy-gushy ‘love’, this holiday is about so much more! Loving ourselves and
One of the best and worst parts of the job is purchasing everything you need to make your classroom run smoothly. What’s great about it
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