It's no secret that vocabulary is a major predictor for student success. Unfortunately, academic vocabulary has always been one of my students' greatest challenges. Academic vocabulary words are the words that are traditionally used in academic text, which are words that are not
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Social Studies Interactive Notebook – Geography, Government, History, Economics
There are 60 different activities and topics addressed in these social studies interactive notebook printables, and many of the pages can be used in a variety of ways, so it's sure to meet your specific state standards. These flipbooks can be used for interactive notebooks or
Social Studies Interactive Notebook & Passages Bundle
There are 60 different activities and topics addressed in this social studies interactive notebook resource. These flipbooks can be used for interactive notebooks or even social studies lapbooks. Each activity includes a photo of the finished product and a student page/template
Using Novel Studies to Teach Reading
I LOVE children’s literature. I love picture books and chapter books, and I’m always torn on which I should use for my mini lessons and small group lessons. When I originally created my reading units, all of the mini lessons were based on picture books, and my guided reading
Upper Elementary Vocabulary Instruction
"Vocabulary is the best single indicator of intellectual ability and an accurate predictor of success at school" - W.B. Ellet.
As a reading teacher, this quote certainly hits home. These are such powerful words concerning the importance of upper elementary vocabulary
Transform Social Studies and Science – Assessment
Assessment. Now that's a loaded word in education circles. The past few years I've been in so many meetings about assessment that I feel like just hearing the word makes my head want to spin. I'm certainly not going to try to condense everything into one blog post, so please
Transform Social Studies and Science – Exploration Activities
Somewhere along the way, we've been made to feel like teaching facts is wrong, but that's not the case at all. There is a basic level of information students need to know to be able to perform performance tasks and higher level thinking activities. One of my all time favorite
Transform Social Studies and Science – Presenting Content
Presenting content has historically been my least favorite component of teaching social studies and science. I feel that I often either overuse or underuse this part of instruction. Before we begin, let's recap where we are at this point in the series:
Organize your
Transform Your Social Studies and Science Instruction
State and federal mandates as well as high stakes testing have created a battle for time in the classroom. This battle has resulted in minimizing social studies and science instruction to focus on tested areas. While I agree that the content area topics should be reinforced and
Social Studies & Science Word Wall
Over the years, I've gone from not having any word wall at all to having entire walls dedicated to word walls. I originally partitioned my wall into grids and had a section for each content area. When I used this format, I liked using larger half page word wall cards. I created
