Author: Hannah

I love teaching themed weeks! The students are so engaged, which makes for a perfect time to hit them with HARD curriculum. In October I always focus a whole week on bats! It is so much fun while being academically rigorous, and engaging! Today, I am going to share with you what I do each…

As a reading teacher, you should have one goal in the classroom… MAKE KIDS LOVE TO READ! (If they love to read, those tests will pass themselves!) I use these simple ways to make sure that each student in my classroom finds a book or a series they LOVE before leaving my room. I want…

Creating a year-long plan for when and where you will teach your standards is crucial. I took out all the hard work for you! I developed the order in which I teach reading and language throughout the third-grade year. In this plan, you will find the reading standards, language standards, writing standards, and themes for…

Students need to learn and understand all the reading skills in your elementary classroom in order to comprehend what they are reading and pass those lovely tests! 🙂 Whenever I am teaching a brand new skill (i.e. theme) to my students I break it down in a staggered approach. Each day I am teaching it…

Working in reading centers gives you time to do small group with your students which is ESSENTIAL! I do reading centers in my classroom every single day for 20-30 minutes. There are tons of resources in this blog post to make setting up your reading centers simple and easy! Centers/What to Prep I have four…

I LOVE a good classroom transformation. They engage students and they cover high-level content. It is a win, win! But they can also be overwhelming and can cause anxiety. Let’s answer a few questions first. What is a transformation? A transformation is where you add items to your room to turn it into a new…