Reading and Writing Redhead

Boost Map Skills Now with 7 Engaging, Hands-on Activities

Have you ever handed out a flat, black-and-white worksheet of a map, only to watch your students stare blankly at it like they’ve never seen anything like it before?

Let’s be honest, paper-and-pencil fill-in activities aren’t always enough to make geography concepts stic...

How Interactive Notebooks Help Students Retain Learning

Have you ever looked at a stack of student writing, spotted the exact same punctuation error you taught yesterday, and wondered if anything is actually sticking in their brains?

We have all been there, staring at a sea of student work and wishing for a magic button that helps concepts and skills click ...

Closing the Gap: 10 Phonemic Awareness Skills That Lead to Reading Success

Teachers, we all know that moment when a student suddenly “cracks the code” and reading starts to click, but getting them there requires consistent, targeted daily practice.

However, as busy teachers, finding the time to learn about and plan engaging phonemic aware...

Why Students Don’t Catch Their Own Writing Mistakes (And What Helps)

You can see it right? That student who can perfectly identify a capital letter on a worksheet turns in a story with lots of writing mistakes – for example, every sentence starts with a lowercase letter.

It’s easy to feel frustrated. These writing mistakes are not necess...