As we all know, even adults make mistakes when it comes to commonly misspelled words. We’ve all seen homophones like…
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5 Ideas for Teaching Shades of Meaning
Any teacher who has seen words like āniceā and āgoodā one too many times in student writing can vouch for…
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Teaching the Most Powerful Reading Comprehension Strategy: Visualization
If you were to get a group of teachers in a room and have them brainstorm some reading comprehension strategies,…
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Holidays Around the World Activities for Close Reading and Opinion Writing
When you combine my favorite hobby and favorite holiday together (travel and Christmas), you get one of my favorite winter…
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Teaching Self Editing in Writing Using a Student Spelling Dictionary
If you’ve ever been asked: āHow do you spell ________?ā then a student spelling dictionary is likely to be a…
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Family History Project for Distance Learning
If thereās any takeaway from our current global situation, itās that one of the most important things in this world…
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