If you’re a high school science teacher (or a soon-to-be high school science teacher), I’d like to share with you how I preferred to start the year with my freshmen and sophomores – and why.

Go slow when teaching procedures. Set a positive tone with 1st week activities. Check out Melissa’s top five tips for starting the school year off right.

Some of my students are mostly nonverbal and can pretty much do the grade-level curriculum with some differentiation and modifications. These are the students who can read, but have difficulty showing what they know. They NEED visual answer choices and visuals all around in order to access the grade level curriculum. I knew these students could be successful in a general education classroom for short periods of time.

This resource round-up is packed with elementary ELA and Social Studies resources to help your students develop phonemic awareness, reading comprehension strategies, and collaborative learning skills.

This week’s Secondary ELA and Social Studies resources will help your student practice active listening, speaking, reading, writing and critical thinking skills. We’re featuring Back-to-School Language Arts Escape Rooms, Upstander…