eSchool News

JULY 8, 2025

Using Book Creator, educators can align writing goals to multimedia production, making literacy more interactive, purposeful, and relevant. The platform covers all subjects–from vocabulary and reading strategies to science, social studies, and math–through catchy songs and interactive lessons.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

The end of the year is not just a time for wrapping up grades and packing up classrooms–it’s also a powerful opportunity for growth and renewal. Tools like NoRedInk can help reduce the planning load for teachers while providing students with structured opportunities to continue developing their writing skills.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 22, 2025

Reading before bed? But not everybody feels this way about reading. My own brother — who is incredibly intelligent, younger than I am, and has already paid off his house (what?!?!) — once told me, “I never read anything unless I absolutely have to.” Every single day we seem to move closer to a society that simply doesn’t read.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2025

We blend math, robotics, reading, and writing for engaging, collaborative learning. Cultivating Confidence: Transforming Middle Grades Math Education : A public charter school in Orangeburg, SC, offers a dynamic Algebra 1-focused related arts course to enhance math and reading skills while fostering positive math identities.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

All you need is designated time in your class, the right writing materials, and a prompt that really inspires them. This list of 8th grade writing prompts is sure to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboards!) ” You’ll also find tips for getting middle schoolers to write in every class. Yes, even math!

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 7, 2025

Teaching 8th grade ELA can be a uniquely rewarding experience, as long as you’ve got the right tools. A good classroom management system, a novel list, and a set of writing prompts go a long way to set students and teachers up for success. But is that enough to prepare new teenagers for 9th grade?

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

We blend math, robotics, reading, and writing for engaging, collaborative learning. Cultivating Confidence: Transforming Middle Grades Math Education : A public charter school in Orangeburg, SC, offers a dynamic Algebra 1-focused related arts course to enhance math and reading skills while fostering positive math identities.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2025

In grade school, I was a confident student who knew how to ace tests and please my teachers. I considered majoring in English since I loved reading, or maybe pre-med for financial stability. My practical immigrant parents talked me out of the first, and a terrible grade on a chemistry midterm out of the second.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

Why would students write anything themselves, instructors wondered, if a chatbot could do it for them? Indeed, many students have taken the bait, if not to write entire essays, then certainly to draft an outline, refine their ideas or clean up their writing before submitting it. I wouldn’t have gone back to [Turnitin].”

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Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

In a course that requires out-of-class reading, that conversation is highly reliant on students doing their part and completing the assigned reading.However, in recent semesters, students engaging in focused reading in which they annotate text is dwindling. There is a notable drop off in the reading and conversations.In

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Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

Letter grades are indeed first subjective evaluations of knowledge proficiency, but once they are passed to the hands of the students, they become game components, passed around as proof of the completion of some task, or the achievement of some desired goal (mastering a standard, fulfilling the requirements of an assignment, etc.)

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 11, 2025

Ready to ignite your students’ imaginations and sharpen their writing skills? With these engaging 7th grade writing prompts, students will dive into a world of self-expression. They’re developing the skills to investigate real-world topics, explain ideas clearly, and write with purpose.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2025

I walked into classrooms where ninth graders were reading at a third-grade level. Some just want to read a good book and be seen for who they are, not as a stereotype waiting to be saved. Writing handbooks. Their brilliance wasn’t dimmed by ability, but by systems too broken — or too indifferent to see them. Absolutely.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JUNE 19, 2025

I’m picturing a lot of family time, slower mornings, and leisure reading in my future, but I also like to spend some time brushing up on my teaching skills each summer. Must-Read Professional Development Book Recommendations from Current Teachers A good read can be just what you need to spark new ideas and inspiration for next year!

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

Two of these authors Dr. Michelle Rivers and Dr. Janell Blunt shared theirs on the podcast you can listen to our conversation in the player above or read the full transcript. And that class, since I started doing that, is a 20 percent improvement in the exam grades. The strategies are summarized below.

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The Applicious Teacher

MAY 25, 2025

Teaching UFLI in 2nd grade? After a full year of using the UFLI Phonics program in my second grade classroom, (and for two years prior in small group!) There is no cost to you, but this extra coinage allows me to continue creating free resources and writing awesome content for you! And even more specific: writing on paper. (

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Teach Hub

APRIL 25, 2025

You can also weave in Howard Gardners theory of multiple intelligences to figure out how your students best express themselves; some shine when they write, others when they build, act, or code. It could be another teacher on your team, a specialist like an art or music teacher, or even a class in a different grade.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

They must talk about what they are learning, write about it, relate it to past experiences, and apply it to their daily lives” (p. Simple Course Design Supports Student Success Darby (2019) writes about how students can easily become overwhelmed by online classes and may struggle using the institution’s portal or LMS. Dr. Jennifer P.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

They must talk about what they are learning, write about it, relate it to past experiences, and apply it to their daily lives” (p. Simple Course Design Supports Student Success Darby (2019) writes about how students can easily become overwhelmed by online classes and may struggle using the institution’s portal or LMS. Dr. Jennifer P.

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Teach Thought

MAY 17, 2025

Skip to content Read Menu Toggle Critical Thinking Posts Learning Posts Literacy Posts Recent Newsletter Support Us? Though the chart below reads left to right, it’s ideal to imagine it as a kind of incline, with Knowledge at the bottom, and Create at the top.

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Brown Bag Teacher

JULY 16, 2025

By fourth and fifth grade, students encounter thousands of new words across content areas—many of them multisyllabic, abstract, and Greek or Latin in origin. Even if a student has never seen the word, they can reason: autobiographer is a person who writes the story of their own life. These are not “sight words.”

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JULY 10, 2025

We tag-teamed – every morning, I taught all the math, reading, and writing, and in the afternoon he would teach science and social studies. We read approximately 5,000 picture books together during snack time, finished 10+ novel studies together, and I even created an entire unit based on going to four different Pumpkin Patches.

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Elevate k12

MAY 15, 2025

Try This: Imagine youre teaching a new ecology unit to your 8 th grade science class. By organizing ideas visually, students can structure their thinking, make connections, and build confidence before they start writing or speaking. Theyre great for things like character analysis, argument writing, or exploring cause and effect.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JUNE 12, 2025

Whether it’s hearing an author share about the creative writing process, exchanging postcards with students in another part of the world, or even attending a mystery Zoom with a special guest, these moments help students see how we’re all connected. It can also inspire students to spend more time on their own writing!

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Morrow was surprised to read that Ruiz had finished in 11th place in the New York Marathon. The official corrected the mistake by writing down the time Ruiz had told him. Integrity is often talked about as a coin that reads cheated on one side and didnt cheat on the other. The time put Ruiz in 11th place.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 21, 2025

Fun Experiments for Kindergarten and 1st Grade Stir up some wiggles and wide-eyed wonder through inquiry-based learning where elementary students will marvel their way to big ideas and critical thinking. The next day, have students write a secret message using a white crayon on white paper.

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Organized Classroom

JUNE 13, 2025

Packet includes 24 pages, 10 customizable covers for your to personalize, and is perfect for grades 2 and up! Even add your own images into the writing (the only caveat to this is that the image must be hosted on the internet somewhere already as you need a URL. Need a blank writing template for students just to free write?

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Elevate k12

JUNE 30, 2025

It provides noncredit-bearing instruction that is directly aligned to students’ academic IEP goals , typically in areas like reading, writing, or math. This model provides full course instruction aligned to grade-level standards. Resource Room Supplemental instruction designed to reinforce or reteach core content.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 8, 2025

You can listen in the player above, read the transcript, or take a look at the summary below. One autistic educator explained to Rabinowitz that because of her cognitive inflexibility, the open-ended nature of a graphic organizer actually made writing harder. Over 50,000 teachers have already joined—come on in.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 25, 2025

Music Circle Time Special Education, Autism, Preschool & Speech Therapy Activity By Supporting Special Learners Grades: PreK-K Use classic tunes like the ABC Song and The Ants Go Marching to help students build communication and social skills through rhythm and repetition. But it’s not impossible. But that is just the beginning.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

High schoolers write a lot every school day. How can you help them improve their writing skills and have fun at the same time? Thats where daily writing prompts come in! How do you decide whether to keep reading a book or to stop reading it? Write a thank-you note to someone in your life. What about 3 hours?

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Teacher Mood

JULY 6, 2025

It feels like a game, but they’re practicing decoding and letter-sound relationships AND writing the entire time. You’ll also find decodable stories paired with comprehension questions —a powerful way to give students authentic reading practice, even with a substitute. My amazing first grade team stepped in without hesitation.

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Tunstalls Teaching Tidbits

JULY 3, 2025

If you’re looking for engaging, hands-on phonics activities to boost early reading success, this is the perfect place to start! Benefits of Short Vowel CVC Phonics Foldable Crafts and Decodable Passages Multisensory Learning: Students cut, fold, color, glue, read, and write—engaging multiple learning styles.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 13, 2025

Did You Know Bulletin Board | Staff Bulletin Board | Community Building Board By 2nd Grade Sassy Pants This “Did You Know?” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dana | 2nd Grade Teacher (@2ndgradesassypants) Create a sense of calm to tame the chaos The second your students step through that door after summer, it’s game on.

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The Applicious Teacher

JUNE 19, 2025

My third graders finally started writing, and honestly, all the papers were becoming a problem. So, I designed this Student Writing Folder in an effort to tame the paper chaos and provide a resource while they wrote. Read on to find out more! They were writing stories. You can read more about that here ).

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Teach Hub

JUNE 18, 2025

Write down your goals and refer back to them often. Be Present and Participate When it comes to online professional development programs, it’s easy to treat them like background noise while you get your chores done or grade papers. So, cozy up on your couch like you’re ready to read a good book, open up your laptop, and dive in.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

UC Riverside found that math and writing skills were lower among the students who graduated from high school during the pandemic than for previous high school graduates. Likewise, 25% of freshmen entered the university at the lowest writing level in 2019. The following year 29% of incoming students started at the lowest writing level.

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