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An anchor chart is a teaching tool that helps visually capture important information from the lesson. They are created, at least in part, during instruction to help emphasize and reiterate important information, procedures, processes, or skills being taught. These are super, fun and engaging to do with your students. I create an anchor chart weekly and hang it on my board.

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At my district, our Reading curriculum is super flexible. I tend to stay away from our Reading books and do my own thing. I found that the Not So Wimpy Teacher really helped me, especially since it is my first year teaching. I buy her reading units and incorporate my own twists on things. I linked her website above if anyone is interested! She has year long units and all sorts of great things.

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Help students learn to love reading with engaging lessons that include reading centers, close reading activities, reading response, book clubs . . .

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Teaching vocabulary is a must! It will improve your students’ reading comprehension, their writing word choice and their standardized testing scores. That’s big!

I found that adding ten minutes of vocabulary to my daily instruction made a huge difference. I love having a routine!

Monday: introduce word definitions and sentences
Tuesday: antonyms and synonyms
Wednesday: roots, prefixes and suffixes
Thursday: draw pictures to represent the words
Friday: play a review game and take an assessment.

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I also love using book clubs. I used book clubs with all of my reading groups. It really helped to increase their love for reading and helped them to choose new books for their independent reading time.

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Interactive Notebooks are a FUN way to teach and have notes for English! They are so much better than traditional note-taking, because instead of just copying notes from the teacher, students are interacting with the material, which leads to a deeper understanding.

My Interactive Notebooks involve inserting and moving around flaps, foldable, wheels, charts, and more and students love all of the different visuals.

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I’m starting with my book recommendations because I think that books are the most important part of ANY classroom! A good classroom library is a must.

It doesn’t have to cost a fortune though. You can get books from garage sales, used book stores, and even from your friends. I highly recommend putting a post on your personal Facebook asking if any of your friends have books that their children have outgrown. It’s a great way to grow your library.

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Google Classroom is a free blended learning platform developed by Google for educational institutions that aims to simplify creating, distributing, and grading assignments. The primary purpose of Google Classroom is to streamline the process of sharing files between teachers and students. This is a great tool to post assignments and have students work online if they're absent or quarantined.

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Prodigy is a great tool to help students get the extra help in a fun way. Prodigy just came out with an English version this spring. Prodigy English is a whole are way for kids to develop reading and language skills.

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Prodigy English and Prodigy Math are both adaptive, engaging, game-based learning platforms designed to help students love learning. And all of Prodigy Math and Prodigy English's educational content is free!

In Prodigy English, players answer reading and writing questions to gain energy that allows their in-game character to build their own world.

In Prodigy Math, players answer math questions to help them win battles, complete quests and earn awesome rewards.

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Prodigy English and Prodigy Math are both adaptive, engaging, game-based learning platforms designed to help students love learning. And all of Prodigy Math and Prodigy English's educational content is free! In Prodigy English, players answer reading and writing questions to gain energy that allows their in-game character to build their own world.

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Gimkit is a great review tool. It is similar to Kahoot- but has TONS of different ways to review. I use this typically the day before a test to review. Some of my favorite games is the Among Us and Teams. My 4th graders LOVE Gimkit.

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Gimkit is a game show for the classroom that requires knowledge, collaboration, and strategy to win. Get started for free!