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This school year my students have challenged my ability to teach problem solving because of their lack of problem solving skills from previous grade levels. At the beginning of the year I assessed my students problem solving ability and on a scale of 1 to 4 every students score a 1 which is considered a novice problem solver. This really alarmed me because I have never in my 14 years … Read More →
When students learn how to read they begin to read words with CVC patterns but as they encounter more words they soon realize as words get larger some words have vowel pairs, diagraphs and diphthongs. These words require a different word attack strategy than words with the CVC patterns. Swoop and group is a word attack strategy that teaches students how to analyze a word mentally swoop the letters in … Read More →
Many states and school districts have made the transition to the Common Core State Standards and some school districts, such as the one that I work for began to fully implement the new standards this year. This has caused educators such as me to search for ways to implement these standards to students who have already had instruction that does not support conceptual understanding of mathematics. I have found that … Read More →
Have you ever wished that there was a magic word that you could say to get your students to understand and identify the difference between factors and multiples? You are not alone! Factors and multiples are introduced in elementary school between 4th and 5th grades. It’s amazing to so many secondary math teachers that by the time a student reaches middle school many students continue to struggle with identifying a … Read More →
I have begun to teach customary measurements of length to my students and as with every teacher we always want to assume that our students have been taught the necessary skills from the previous grade level. In 4th grade students are supposed to have been taught how to read a ruler to the nearest quarter inch. I quickly realized that they did not have a clue as to how to … Read More →
