Language Arts
The Benefits Of Learning a New Language and Being Bilingual
By: Kylie Hall | Oct 30, 2017
If you’re like most people, your experience with learning a second language came in high school. You took French or Spanish because it was required of you. You learned a few random phrases like, “Where is the library?” and, “I don’t speak French.”
Once you were done with the class, you didn’t put much more thought to the language. After just a few months, you forgot ...
20 of the Best Anti-Bullying Picture Books for Teachers
By: Kylie Hall | Aug 16, 2017
In the past five years, bullying has become a hot topic in school yards and parent-teacher meetings across the country. It isn’t that bullying incidents have increased dramatically, it is just that parents and teachers and students are all far more aware and conscious of the threat of bullying. One ...
Character in the Classroom
By: Tricia Koechig | Mar 13, 2017
We have just begun our literary unit of recognizing and identifying major and minor characters in a story and analyzing their character traits. As a Fifth-grade teacher, studying characters and their development throughout a literary piece is essential to expand the thought processes of my students. They may be 10, ...
Promoting Literacy Using Anchor Texts
By: Michelle Areaux | Nov 4, 2016
For most teachers, we spend countless hours planning and creating fun lessons for our students to enjoy. In reality, most of those lessons never see the light of day because we are forced to now design each daily lesson around a standardized test that, honestly, does not measure what our ...
Text Coding for Struggling Readers
By: Michelle Areaux | Aug 24, 2016
All educators are thrown different reading strategies that are supposed to close the gap with our reluctant and struggling readers. Every year it seems a new and powerful method is developed that will be the saving grace all teachers dream for. As wonderful as that sounds, many of us understand ...