Summer is here in the northern hemisphere. If you find yourself looking for some summer reading that you can give to elementary and middle school students, ReadWorks has you covered. Once again this summer ReadWorks is offering free summer reading packets that you can send home with your students. The free summer reading packets are available with fiction and nonfiction articles for students entering first grade through high school. Click on either the fiction or nonfiction packet for a grade and it will open a PDF that you can print and distribute to your students. There is an option to download a packet with reading comprehension questions for each grade level.To preview, download, and print the ReadWorks summer reading packets you will need...
Digital Games and Activities for Finding Subject and Predicate Need subject and predicate activities? How many of you have listened to your students read aloud and it sounds like one sentence has turned into an entire page? Or have you graded a paragraph where those 5-6 sentences that should be there are actually just one big, long, run-on sentence by itself? Can you relate? While those frustrations are issues of their own I can leave for another day to talk about, I want to bring attention to one of the main underlying causes of lack of fluency and writing run-on sentences that we all know firsthand – Reading and writing without an understanding of subject and predicate. While you may...
This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support! Because the pandemic created such a strange learning environment for children everywhere, it is more important than ever to practice their skills at home to build them up to where they should be within their grade level. For years before the pandemic, I used to get so frustrated because our family wanted to go on fun vacations and enjoy family time together during the summer, yet I also wanted to keep my kids thinking and learning and not going backwards in their academic skills. Practicing those...
COVID-19 has changed everything about education. And while many school buildings plan to open their doors for in-person learning in the fall, some parents are still concerned about their unvaccinated children and are looking at online learning for kids. Free online classes for kids can be used for parents who are considering keeping their kids at home where remote learning is still an option or as an additional educational boost. Or for people like parents of toddlers who might be looking for high-quality online education for kids, that is supplemental fun.There are many great, free online education courses for kids available offered by both accredited institutions and long-run and beloved learning companies such as Khan Academy, Scholastic, Epic, Fun Brain,...
Since debuting in 1971’s House of Secrets #92, Swamp Thing, a DC Comics mainstay, has challenged and changed the comics world in a way few others have. Intentionally or unintentionally — there’s a lot of existentialism to be had here — unassuming scientist Alec Holland (and numerous other hosts and avatars) serves as the vessel for something larger than himself: The Swamp Thing, a shambling mound of life and earth that serves as a reminder that the world exists beyond us…and that it has needs and desires beyond our comprehension. From straightforward horror storytelling to environmental radicalism to psychedelic explorations of the boundary between man and nature, Swamp Thing is consistently inconsistent, but that’s also to his benefit! An enigmatic...
