I love celebrating all holidays and especially recognizing influential women during Women’s History Month. Have you been wondering how to celebrate Women’s History Month in your classroom? Through studying women’s history, children can learn about important figures, our collective past, and current struggles for gender equality. There are many ways you can help your students appreciate and learn more about the… Read More
Teaching Reading Skills and Strategies
How do you teach reading skills in your classroom? My biggest fear as a teacher was that my students would not comprehend what they were reading. Therefore, I always set a goal to grow my students into successful independent readers. I created a plan and throughout the years I gathered many basic ideas and strategies to help me teach my… Read More
Strategies to Promote Reading Comprehension
Chances are you have students at various reading levels in your classroom. There are students reading at grade level, students who are reading far above grade level, and students who are struggling to comprehend classroom texts. Regardless of reading levels, the strategies that promote reading comprehension skills can be used with any text. Using these skills and strategies in your… Read More