Tag: back to school

Reading, Writing

How to Implement a Reading Fluency Creative Writing Routine

Many students in the primary grades struggle with writing stories and reading with fluency. When I noticed that my first graders had mastered writing a good, basic sentence, but couldn’t string a few together, I knew a needed to find a solution. They also needed to work on their reading fluency, so I decided to solve both problems at once:…

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Classroom Management, Reading

12 Picture Books that Showcase Diverse Families

If you’re working towards making your classroom more inclusive and reflective of the wider community, pictures books can be a great tool to showcase diverse families and home life set ups. In addition to using more inclusive language, teachers can use read alouds to help students both see their family and other family make ups. It’s a great way to…

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New Teacher Tips

7 Things School Administrators Forget About Teaching

Most (although it should definitely be all) school administrators were once classroom teachers, or teachers of some kind. However, often those days are long gone. I’ve had some really fantastic principals and some… less than great principals in my years in education. The ones who weren’t so great often didn’t really remember what it’s like to be a classroom teacher.…

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