One of the more challenging reading standards is explaining events in informational text. “Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.” This can be challenging to teach AND for students to master. In this post, I’ve shared some […]
The only thing more fun than a math project is a Christmas math project! It combines two of my favorite things. You can find this Christmas math project here. You can read about my Christmas Fraction Project here. In this activity, students are invited to enter a house in a holiday decorating contest. Some students
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Several years ago, I used my Christmas Geometry Project as a multi-day math project before Christmas break. When I changed grade levels, I wasn’t been able to use the activity, because I hadn’t taught geometry. I LOVED the math project so much that I turned the Geometry Project into a new Christmas Fraction Project. After I
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These Thanksgiving math activities include options for differentiation and opportunities with math tasks and projects. These differentiated pages are included in my Thanksgiving resource. Thanksgiving Math Activities-The Cost of Cooking Two-step word problems are always a challenge for students. They require students to read carefully and think about what the problem as asking, which is
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When I moved back to teaching fourth grade and read the standard “Compare and contrast a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic; describe the differences in focus and the information provided” I was more than a little confused. Once I I spent time unpacking the standard and actually understanding what the
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Dividing with area models and partial quotient is a major part of fourth grade standards. Confession: when I first moved to fourth grade, I had no clue how to divide with an area model or partial quotient! After teaching it to myself, I hated it! Dividing with area models and partial quotient didn’t click for
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I used to feel like the standard that required students to reference characters in mythology was a bit random. I struggled with how to tie this in to my reading instruction. But, when looking at the standards in totality, you can see how this builds upon previously taught standards and is a foundation for standards
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Is it crazy that I get excited when I begin teaching multi-digit multiplication? Probably. I’ll own it. I think it’s so fun because it’s the first topic I teach that is completely new to students. Place value, rounding, addition, and subtraction are all built off of previous grades. Multi-digit multiplication is brand new. Yes, this
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I love finding ways to tap into my students’ passions and interests, and football is definitely at the top of many of my students’ list. This football math project meets all of my requirements for a good lesson, AND my students think it is the coolest thing ever. I actually got the idea from one
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Teaching theme has to be one of my favorite topics in reading. It’s probably become of the amazing collection of mentor texts that can be used for teaching theme, as well as how these lessons require students to dig a little deeper. This post shares some of my favorite mentor texts and activities for teaching
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