6 Historical Story Starters for Elementary Students
I’ve always found that the key to teaching history to elementary students is to tell it less like a textbook and more like a story. Put faces to names. Paint mental pictures to accompany those long-lost times and places. Don’t just ask your kids to memorize—encourage...
The Best Student Publishing Company: Why Studentreasures is Top of the Class
As a kid, I used to stay up late reading all the time. As soon as the lights went out and the door closed, I’d huddle up under the covers with a flashlight and a book and read until the words blurred and my eyelids drooped. And when I finally slipped off into...
4 Inventive 3rd Grade Descriptive Writing Prompts and Projects
We all know how wild our 3rd grade students’ imaginations can be. They come up with ideas that are out of this world—things we wouldn’t dream up in a million years—on a daily basis. Robots who do children’s chores? Mind-reading dogs? A giant cupcake making machine...