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Fun Text Structure Review Games blog image with image of Sticker Style resource

Fun Text Structure Review Games

Fun text structure review games to help your students build their confidence around identifying and analyzing text structure. Let’s be honest. Identifying text structure isn’t always the most interesting topic to teach, but as our students’ understanding grows and evolves, so do our activities. Plus, as we move past the

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Practicing Context Clues in Upper Elementary blog image with images of the posters in the background

Practicing Context Clues in Upper Elementary

Practicing context clues in upper elementary is easy with these 5 easy activities! Few things hinder a young reader more than trying to read a new book and encountering confusing, unknown words. But somehow, many people are able to continue on anyway. Why is that? How was it that J.K.

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Easy Ways to Improve Test Scores Vocabulary Blog Image with picture of the Prefix and Suffix digital puzzles in the background

Easy Ways to Improve Test Scores: Vocabulary 

One of the easy ways to improve test scores is to work on student vocabulary. This post provides a few resource suggestions as well as some ideas for improving vocabulary instruction in your upper elementary classroom. Unfortunately testing is not going away any time soon, so teachers everywhere are trying

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Ways to Celebrate Holidays while Practicing Standards

Celebrate holidays while practicing standards using these new ideas and resources. Holidays provide a lot of fun in the traditional classroom. Whether you are celebrating National Taco Day on October 4th or celebrating a more traditional holiday like Valentine’s Day or Thanksgiving, taking the time to celebrate, do holiday-themed activities,

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5 Ways to use our Crayon-Themed Close Reading Freebie!

Let’s get creative with 5 ways to use our Crayon-Themed Close Reading Freebie! So, maybe you’ve already downloaded our Close Reading Freebie, or maybe you’ve been waiting until the right moment. Either way, we are going to talk today about several different ways to use this awesome Crayon-themed Close Reading

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