Tips for making content comprehensible and number sense!
Observation Charts are a great way to promote academic discussions in your classroom so that all students are successful. This BeGLAD strategy makes it super simple to get ALL your students listening, speaking, reading and writing about content! Students look at visuals from a unit of study and ask a question, make a prediction and write an observation. This strategy… Read More
How do we launch collaborative groups in the classroom that are EFFECTIVE? When students engage in collaborative group work that is structured, their understanding of the content deepens and misconceptions are clarified. We want this for our students, but how do we ensure that all students are accountable? For years in the classroom, I would put my students in groups… Read More
This simple and effective strategy integrates academic vocabulary with classroom management! Let’s get real, the key to success in every classroom is having solid classroom management. You can have the most amazing lessons, but if your students are all over the place they probably aren’t benefiting in the way you’d like. This classroom management strategy is so simple. Although it… Read More
This engaging active listening strategy: Listen, then Sketch, is a GLAD visualization strategy. It allows students an opportunity to practice their active listening skills while also supporting comprehension and oral language development. This strategy gives English language learners, struggling readers and passive readers a chance to improve these skills with a very low affective filter. Benefits differentiated low affective filter… Read More
The Sentence Patterning Chart is a language acquisition strategy that works wonders for all students, but especially for students who are English language learners or students who are struggling in writing. When developing sentence structure, this sentence patterning chart clearly conveys how a noun and verb work together in a sentence and how adding descriptive words, such as adjectives and… Read More
I absolutely LOVE building number sense in the primary grades with Counting Collections. Counting Collections is a student-centered activity where students become aware of their mathematical thought processes and gain a strong sense of numerical relationships. It’s perfect for building number sense in preschool-2nd grade. Counting Collections can also be used as an intervention tool for 3rd-5th graders. I began… Read More