What do the rest of the kids do while you teach reading in small groups or one-on-one? Today I'm sharing 3 activities your students can do independently. Let them choose their books. One activity for…
You want to leave school for the day but there's still so much to do like planning your lessons. Here's a secret... there will always be so much to do. But that doesn't mean you…
Area and perimeter can be tricky skills to teach kids because they often confuse one for the other in 3rd-grade. Here are 5 ways to help kids understand area and perimeter. Definitions using Examples: Before…
Don’t grade everything. It’s ok to give kids things to work on that we don’t grade. The point of grading is to assess how kids are doing. Although that could also be argued because sometimes…
Playing multiplication fact practice games is one of the easiest ways to help kids learn their multiplication facts. When kids are having fun, they are able to retain the information they are learning. Because our…
The schwa sound in words is one of the most common in the English language and yet it’s the trickiest to teach. The schwa sound is a weak unstressed sound that occurs in multisyllabic words.…
To help kids understand multiplication, it's important to teach them strategies for how to multiply. Teaching these 4 multiplication strategies for 3rd-graders is essential before having kids memorize facts. Make Equal Groups One of the…
Do you hate teaching? Maybe you've been in this career for a while or maybe it's one of your first years. If you do, it's okay to feel that way. I can bet that every…
In 3rd-grade kids start needing to know their multiplication facts. It's the foundation to other skills they'll learn as they get into the higher grades like fractions. When kids practice multiplication facts it should be…
You have limited time to teach ALL the things each day. But there are ways to sneak in decoding lessons, even in 3rd-grade. In this post I'm sharing 3 ideas for how to teach multisyllabic…