If understanding place value means correctly interpreting the value of a digit based on its place in a number, then just having students use a place value chart is probably not enough! Teaching place value…
Unitizing is not only a mathematical term, but it’s also a business term. Have you ever wondered when businesses ship hundreds of boxes, how do they keep track? By unitizing! The shipping company will unitize…
Have you’ve encountered the student who doesn’t study the multiplication facts? Or the student who learns one multiplication table and then seemingly forgets most of the facts? Or the student who studies but has a…
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…
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…
