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Deepening Reading Comprehension with Vocabulary Strategies

Understanding the meaning behind words is an important part of reading comprehension. Vocabulary strategies are the tools to help students crack open unknown words. When teaching vocabulary strategies, it is important to break things down into simple steps that students can apply. While it is important to also teach vocabulary words, vocabulary strategies are more …

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activities for teaching context clues

Activities for Teaching Context Clues in the Primary Grades

Let’s dive into activities for teaching context clues in the primary grades. I also have a post that breaks down how to teach vocabulary strategies that you can find here.   Activity #1 Picture Journal for Vocabulary Many young learners are very concrete and visual. You can let students keep a picture journal to illustrate …

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Ideas for Teaching Prefixes in the Primary Grades

Ideas for Teaching Prefixes in 2nd Grade to Strengthen Vocabulary Skills

Students need opportunity to work with words and manipulate the parts of them. In primary grades like 2nd grade, students can start to dive into prefixes to strengthen their vocabulary skills. There are many ways for students to work with prefixes, and you will find a few ideas for teaching prefixes below. Idea #1 Sorting …

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How to Customize Your Interactive Notebooks…A Video Tutorial

  Hi everyone! I recently created this video tutorial that teaches you how to customize your interactive notebooks. In this tutorial, I teach how to create an acronym book that can be used for back to school or as part of an all about me unit, but you can use these techniques to create whatever …

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How to Use Google Classroom on an iPad or Tablet When You are Not 1:1

Hi everyone! Today, I want to offer show you how to use Google Classroom on an iPad or tablet when you are not 1:1. Some of you may have been 1:1 for a while, but Google Classroom is new to you. Now, some of you might ask, what is 1:1? This is simply when each …

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Teaching Strategies

Strategy Share: Teaching Story Elements

Hi everyone! Today, I wanted to share some teaching strategies for teaching story elements. These ideas are meant to pair with fiction read alouds. Although, I will offer some ideas for guided reading too. I also will include a freebie to help implement these ideas. First, let’s go over the basic story elements that you …

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