Anti-Racism – Fight for Your Rights!
I’m honored to participate in the 22 Days of Anti-Racism Resources for Teachers started by Texas teacher Chrissy Beltran from El Paso, Texas. This series of blog posts is in response to the murder of…
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Each is an Inspiring Woman so Check Out These Books!
As we approach Mother’s Day, I wanted to share some books that showcase not just one inspiring woman, but many in our history. These inspiring women that lead the way or pioneered the way for…
New Children’s Literature Books that are Amazing
I hadn’t bought any new children’s literature books in quite a while until I discovered these beautiful and new children’s literature books. I’m using these amazing books with different units in my class as well…
Common Core Based Homework Project Using Literature
After ending the Folktale Unit with my class, it was time for a culminating homework project. Each student received a five-page template to create an iFolktale. What’s an iFolktale? Just a template that looks like a…
Unique Ways to Teach the Central Message of Folktales
For the past few years, I have always taught finding the central message (or moral or lesson) of a story as a separate standard. But I tried something different and it is working very well…
Focus on the Literature Standards with Amazing Folktales
After focusing on the non-fiction text and the informational text standards, it’s time to switch the focus to the literature standards. To teach the literature standards, I use folktales. My favorite author to use is…
How to Use Gerald McDermott’s Books to Compare and Contrast
As you may have read in an earlier post, Gerald McDermott is one of my favorite and go to authors to use for read alouds and for teaching. He has a huge collection of diverse…
Teaching the Central Message with Awesome Greek Myths
As part of the Folktale Unit, not only do we explore Native American folktales, but we delve into Greek myths as well. Why do I use Greek myths? They’re effective to use for teaching the…
Teaching Third Grade Literature Standards with Engaging Folktales
Do you enjoy using Gerald McDermott’s books in your classroom as much as I do? I have been using his stories for at least 10 years since I discovered them to teach the third-grade literature…
A Creative Way to Show Central Message
If you have read my previous posts on teaching central message, you know that I have been using folktales to teach central message (CCSS RL.3.2). One of the folktales I used was Coyote by Gerald…
How I Taught Point of View
Let me start off by saying, that I didn’t want this blog to turn into one big informercial for products I’m selling over at TpT. However, for this standard, I really could NOT find any…
Teaching the Central Message Part 2
I wanted to make sure that my students had some experience with identifying the central message before trying to figure out the central message of Coyote or any other story we would read. I thought that maybe…
How to Teach Central Message with Literature
Our first week back from Winter Break and we started our first unit using literature! Up until now, the focus has been mostly on non-fiction text in our curriculum units. This is the…
