Collaborative writing tasks, the unsung hero of the ELA classroom. Not only does it offer several benefits that contribute to their academic, social, and cognitive development, but also is a writing life-saver and can be…
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Teaching sentence structure through sentence combining and sentence modeling activities can be highly beneficial for student writers in several ways: One: Development of Sentence Variety Sentence combining activities encourage students to experiment with different sentence…
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Teaching Research: Google Keep, Padlet, and Halloween topics I am one of the weird teachers where research does not stress me out! I actually enjoy the very clearly defined process and I consider it one…
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Using Inquiry and Reflection How to Teach Research Skills to High School Students Teaching a comprehensive research experiences can be daunting and overwhelming! Many dread teaching a research project or paper but, weirdly, one of…
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Get your students up and moving around on the first day back to school After I have gotten students seated, checked role, and played Roll the Dice as a quick icebreaker, I get to the…
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