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Unlock tried and tested classroom activities, teaching strategies from our expert teacher team, and classroom management tips to cater to your students' needs. Fill your teacher toolkit with fresh trends, the latest education research and more ways to unleash your teaching superpowers!
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Informative Writing | Teaching Tips and Unit Plans
Are you teaching informative writing? Read this article for must-have tips, teaching resources and unit plans!
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Cute Ways To Use a Class Mascot in the Classroom
Check out the fun ways you can utilize a class mascot in the classroom, more than just a take-home writing task.
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20+ Resources for Teaching Money and Financial Mathematics
These amazing downloadable resources will give your students the real-world skills they need to know all about money and financial mathematics!
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8 Powerful Student-Led Discussion Strategies
Encourage creativity and collaboration in your classroom! These student-led discussion strategies will have your students engaged and thinking.
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Expanding Sentences | Resource Download To Improve Writing
Hints, tips, and resources to help improve your students' writing by encouraging them to expand their sentences with descriptive language.
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11 Easy Ideas for Teaching with Technology
Interactives, podcasts and iPads, oh my! Have you used these in your lessons? Take a look at these super-easy ideas for teaching with technology!
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Fun With Literature: Novel Study Activities for Any Story
There's nothing quite like dissecting a juicy novel with your class! Have fun with literature with our novel study activities pack!
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Word of the Week - Expanding Vocabulary in the Classroom
Words! Words! Words! Vocabulary is critical to listening, speaking, reading and writing success! Everything that you need to set up Word of the Week and to make a huge impact it right here.
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Tips and Ideas for Creating a Makerspace in the Classroom
A guide to creating a Makerspace in your classroom with helpful tips and ideas to help you to get started.
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How To Turn Your End of Year Party Into a Real World Math Lesson
Planning an end-of-year party for your class? It's the perfect occasion to explore mathematics in a real world context!
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Developing Inferential Comprehension Using Visuals
Are your students struggling with inferring during reading? Why not teach the skill of inferring using only visuals? Check out our resources and ideas featured in this blog.
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Teaching Measurement | The Best Informal Measurement Activities
A guide to teaching measurement and a reveal of our Measuring Length with Informal Units unit plan and some of our best measurement activities.
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8 Magical Multiplication Activities for the Classroom
Check out this blog for 8 magical multiplication activities. All activities suggested use everyday items or printable resources.
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I Have a Fun Game to Play, Who Has it Too?
Classroom games are an important part of every teacher's toolkit. Check out some of our most popular ones!
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Teaching Emotions to Kids in the Classroom
Teaching young children about emotions and feelings is imperative in the early years. Check out these picture books and teaching resources all about emotions...
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The BEST Printable Wonder Wall Classroom Display
We love a good bandwagon. Especially one that makes learning hands-on, fun and exciting for your students!
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Printable Guess Who? Game Templates for the Classroom
These printable templates will turn your Guess Who? game into a super fun, educational classroom activity. You can download an editable template too!
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5 Ways to Use Letter Tiles in the Classroom
Are you looking for a fun engaging vocabulary activity to use with your class? You will want to download our letter tiles printable after reading this blog!
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32 Awesome Hundreds Board Mystery Picture Task Cards!
This downloadable hundreds chart mystery picture resource contains 32 different pictures in task card format so you can use them with any hundreds board!
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10 Awesome Buddy Program Activity Ideas
Stuck for ideas for your buddy program? Check out these awesome activity ideas!
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30 Resources and Tips to Help Your Students Love Editing
These tips and resources will help your students learn to love editing.
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A Simple Way to Get Kids Writing Every Day
Have you ever wondered how to get kids writing every day without fielding a chorus of collective groans? Check out how to make daily writing practice a breeze!
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Fabulously Fun Vocabulary Activities for the Classroom
Need some more ways to challenge your students' vocabulary? These activities and games are fabulously fun!
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15 Books and Activities to Foster Grit in the Classroom
Teachers around the world are fostering grit, building resilience and encouraging a positive growth mindset in young minds! Here is a list of 15 of my favorite growth mindset resources.
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Teaching Kindness One Rock at a Time
The Kindness Rock Project has onesimple goal, to promote random acts of kindness in the shape of painted rocks with inspirational words!
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Tips and Activities for Teaching Letters and Sounds
The introduction of single letter names and sounds is crucial in the early years classroom. Here are some hints and tips, including some fun hands-on classroom resources.
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Solving the Cone and Cylinder Debate Once and for All
The debate is over...we have come to our final decision.
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Sound and Letter Art Ideas
15 of the cutest letter art ideas you ever did see...
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68 Ideas and Tips for Setting Up Math Rotations in the Classroom
To do math rotations or not?
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25 Ideas and Resources for Teaching Comprehension in the Classroom
This blog article will outline how I tackled the teaching of comprehension skills in my classroom.
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10 Playdough Learning Activities to Try in Your Classroom
Kids love playdough! So why not use it in the classroom...here are ten ways you can!
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22 Mental Math Classroom Games and Teaching Resources
Mental maths is a students ability to make calculations in their mind without the guidance of pencil and paper, calculators or other aids. This blog outlines some activities, resources and ideas of how to develop your students number sense.