When teaching lessons to a large group of students, I prefer to gather them in a whole group meeting area. I find this eliminates the distractions...
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Teaching elementary students to elaborate in writing can be a challenge. Here is an anchor chart 4th Grade teacher Randi Anderson uses with her students to get them to add quality details.
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Cafe Boards remind students to use strategies to process texts.
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Second Grade Teacher Marcie Herbst's Math Workshop Choice Board. Students choose games and paper pencil activities to practice math skills and strategies.
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Anchor charts for writing--Gretchen Bernebei writing strategies combined with STAAR writing must do's.
Read More »I learned about this one from my son, who is in college. Since then, I use this app on a daily basis! You can use an iPad, Mac or Windows computer, or an iPhone/iPod Touch for this app.
This app allows you to create notebooks. I have created a notebook for each of my campuses (or students) so that I can keep my anecdotal notes in one place. You can record conferring sessions while you take notes.
Read More »Spelling Anagrams
Find the hidden word in the fastest time. Race against time to find the computer's hidden word, and solve the anagram. Anagram selects a word and jumbles up its letters. Players simply have to find the word in the time limit by reordering the letters.
Words With Friends
This is an app for Android, iPhone, and iPad users. Very addicting digital Scrabble. (Just ask Alec Baldwin!)
Developing Talkers
From the Children’s Learning Institute Downloadable lesson plans, children’s literature sticky questions, and much more!
Flockdraw.com
Students draw a picture of the word, label it, and draw a brief description of how it is used.
Word Clouds
Create a word cloud to: