In my last post, Introducing Point of View in Narrative stories, I shared that I believe helping students learn more about characters and their point of view pulls them into stories and makes them want to read more. That has always been my goal in reading – helping students learn to love reading. Fourth grade is when my own love of reading started as I began to devour books at a pretty good rate. When I see that same intensity in my students, I know I’ve done something right as a teacher. In this post, students will learn how to identify the narrator’s point of view. Keep reading if this is something you are working on in your classroom or want to. What is the...
My child was diagnosed when he was eight year old. “In my thirty years of teaching, I have never seen a child work so hard and not make any progress. I am at a loss,” shared my son’s teacher in the days when he attended traditional public school (he now homeschools). If a teacher who has seen dyslexia many times before, over decades, was at a loss — what were we to do? My child entering grade four was completely illiterate. Even memorization such as “The” could not be translated from a page to his lips. “Ta” he’d say and we’d celebrate the “t” sound. It was the start of something and we’d acknowledge this progress. In a classroom...
Need A Scientific Method Activity? Looking for a scientific method activity? Kids love learning about the scientific method because kids love science. Every student always enjoys exploring and discovering new things, and especially conducting experiments. The scientific method is the basis of those exciting experiments that they are going to perform throughout the year! I have some ideas and resources to use when teaching the scientific method to your elementary students – keep reading to learn more. Plus, make sure to scroll all the way to the bottom to grab a science FREEBIE! What are the steps of the scientific method? The scientific method steps are: make an observation ask a question form a hypothesis conduct experiment analyze results conclusion Scientists...
(Welcome to Scariest Scene Ever, a column dedicated to the most pulse-pounding moments in horror with your tour guides, horror experts Matt Donato and Ariel Fisher. In this edition, Ariel remembers very real terror in "The Sixth Sense," and Matt feels like he's seeing dead people for the first time all over again.)However memeable it's become over the years, "The Sixth Sense" is, in my opinion, M. Night Shyamalan's masterpiece. While rewatching it for this week's column, all I could do was remember what made it so terrifying to me as a child. I was 11 years old when it hit theaters, and my mom and I went to see it. It scared me so much that when we got...
What scares you? Is it something ephemeral, like the concept of death or failure? Do sharks and slithery things give you nightmares, or is it Freddy Krueger and Michael Myers who keep you up at night? In the realm of terrifying monsters, it's hard to pick the absolute scariest one. Fear is, after all, purely subjective. Many things go bump in the night, but not all of them are created equal. Sure, some monsters will stick with you from childhood until you're old a grey, but others ... well, they lack a certain Je ne sais quois. Not these ones, though. No way. The /Film horror team put their heads together to come up with an immense list of horror movie monsters...
