Who can resist an entire year’s bundle of science and social studies pocketbooks, a book you can “drive” a car on, and a shark-y language packet?…

This week’s Resource Round-up is chock-a-block full of fun ideas to try with your class including a rock-paper-scissors musical game, a human body bundle (of excitement!), and an ocean creatures QR code research adventure…

I created this super fun spelling activity to help students work on blending, adding, deleting, and substituting phonemes to make new words, all while having loads of fun. These vital phonemic awareness skills are…

Do you ever feel like your teacher prep program left you with some major gaps? Like, how the heck do you really teach spelling? We’re probably all familiar with the technique of assigning lists and testing at the end of the week. We’ve probably also seen how those words are frequently forgotten the next week. So what do we really know about the teaching and learning of spelling? I dug into some research and…