Tuesday’s Teaching Tip – Re-focusing Amidst Spring Fever

Tuesday’s Teaching Tip – Re-focusing Amidst Spring Fever
Has Spring Fever hit your students?  Are they tuning out more often than you’d like?  Not paying attention?   How about you?  Has your attention…and energy level…wandered off? Has the gray and rainy…or white and… View Post

Tuesday’s Teaching Tip – 5 Minute Vocabulary

Tuesday’s Teaching Tip – 5 Minute Vocabulary
Would you like an idea for teaching vocabulary in 5 minutes and practicing in less than 1 minute?  We’ve got it for you today.  On Tuesday’s Teaching Tips, we’ve been sharing ideas for teaching vocabulary… View Post

Tuesday’s Teaching Tip – Fun & Easy Idea to Increase Student Vocabulary

Tuesday’s Teaching Tip – Fun & Easy Idea to Increase Student Vocabulary
Would you teach more vocabulary if you had some fun and easy ideas to use?  We all know that vocabulary is so important for our students’ success.  After all, the students with the largest vocabulary… View Post

Tuesday’s Teaching Tip – Vocabulary Ideas Pat Cunningham Style

Tuesday’s Teaching Tip – Vocabulary Ideas Pat Cunningham Style
Vocabulary….such an important thing to teach, but so easy to let it slide, isn’t it?  Why is it so important though?  Vocabulary is essential to understanding and deep thinking! Bottom line is this – students… View Post

Tuesday’s Teaching Tip – Do You Share?

Tuesday’s Teaching Tip – Do You Share?
Do You Share? Hey teachers!  Do you do sharing in your class?  No, not show and tell sharing, but literacy sharing after independent reading practice?  It’s the frosting on the cake….the bow in the ponytail….or… View Post