As teachers, you know teaching vocabulary is important, but you need ways to make it stick. One way elementary students learn is with visuals, but you may wonder how to teach vocabulary by using pictures? When you are planning your vocabulary lessons, look for pictures that are kid-friendly and ... View Post
Back to school routines help sneak in academic vocabulary
Teaching routines to a new group of students can be so repetitious, especially with primary students. While we are teaching all those good rules of citizenship, we can incorporate some critical academic vocabulary. Research in vocabulary education shows that we need to be embedding the vocabulary in ... View Post
School Safety: Drills, Procedures and More
October is Fire Safety Month. Here's all we need to plan out lessons with tons of video links too! Talking about school safety actually started at the beginning of the school year to prepare students to know what to do in case of an emergency. With all the safety drills to go over in the first weeks ... View Post
