6th Grade Reading… Someone Else’s Shoes 29 Oct 20151 Dec 2015 Another extension activity! This time I made the students think creatively and outside the box. Continue reading "Someone Else’s Shoes"
6th Grade Reading… The Boring Words Funeral 27 Oct 20151 Dec 2015 Today my 6th grade co-teachers and I held a Boring Words Funeral for the overused, boring, '2nd/3rd grade' words in our vocabulary. This was a very somber event. Students and…
Integration of Technology… ClassTools.Net – An Excellent Teacher Resource 26 Oct 2015 Just last week, my co-teacher introduced me to ClassTools.Net, an excellent resource for teachers! This website has interactive diagrams, models, games, and activities for all ages!Continue reading "ClassTools.Net – An…
6th Grade Reading… My Hamburger Narrative 26 Oct 20151 Dec 2015 The focus of my sixth grade classes is narrative writing: short stories about the student's own lives. To help with the structure of writing a short story, we explained a…
High School… Old Man and the Sea Outline 24 Sep 201519 Oct 2015 My Honors kids have been struggling with thesis statements. They have great ideas, they just aren't articulating them into arguments. And thus their papers (and grades) are suffering. So I…
Writing Strategies Snapshot 26 Feb 201516 Sep 2015 Take a picture/photograph and write. This strategy is related to Writing from Image [Ekphrastic] Continue reading "Snapshot"