Getting ideas on paper can be hard.  Some kids don’t know how to organize their writing. Some try to make it perfect right off the bat. One of the best strategies for teaching writing is using Mentor Text Transformations.   Writing transformations of mentor texts is a great way to ... read more

Plagiarism is a hard concept. So how can you prepare for teaching plagiarism to elementary students as they make the leap from learning to read to using the information they read? As young readers they have been taught to find the evidence in the passage, to tell where they found the information ... read more

Looking for note-taking activities for elementary students? Note-taking can be a tricky task for elementary students.  As they learned to read they were taught to find and copy the answer from the text.  Now we are asking them to find key ideas for notes.   The goal in ... read more

Are you looking for fun counting books to help students learn how to count?  These 10 books are great to use to help students with number sense from 1 to 100.  There is a variety of books that teachers and parents would read aloud to kids and some that young readers can read ... read more

Scavenger Hunts in in the school library?  Yes! Playing games in the library is a great way to learn library skills.  These library scavenger hunts and games allow students to put into practice the skills they learn on finding things in the library.  They give students the opportunity ... read more