Best Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension to Elementary Students
For some students, reading comes as naturally to them as if they were born bookworms. For others, reading comprehension may not come so easily. It’s up to us teachers to find a balance between the two, challenging the more gifted readers in our classrooms to grow and...
What is Classroom Management? Facilitating Positive Behavior
Wouldn’t it be great if we could all just wave a magic wand and our students would suddenly have great behavior and their work done? Unfortunately, technology isn’t quite there yet and it would be a little unsettling if it was. The closest thing we have to a magic...
4 Fun Narrative Writing Prompts for 5th Grade
Fact may be stranger than fiction, but fiction offers a kind of creative freedom your 5th grade students won’t find anywhere else. Narrative writing gives them the chance to tell their own stories, beginning at the beginning (as Lewis Carroll would say) and following...