This post has been a long time coming! Thank you to those who have patiently waited for me to create the Sight Word Practice Cards for 3rd Grade Dolch words. If your students are working on 3rd grade sight words, these practice cards are a must! They help kids learn to read words with automaticity, spell sight words, and read the word in a sentence. Sight words are words that are frequently used in text and words that can’t necessarily be sounded out, so they need to be memorized. For example, if you sound out the word ‘eight’ it would sound different than how it should be pronounced. To help with reading fluency and sight word recognition, you can use these...
Everyone hates tests, scratch that, everyone hates studying for tests. When trying to justify that you had studied what was taught for the whole semester (or year), justified by that one last final examination, sometimes everything goes wrong. The mind going blank, partial recalls and tip-of-the-tongue phenomena, or freezing up at the most crucial moment are what students dread the most. If this describes you, you need all the help you can get. We will go through some of the best ways to optimize your memory for academic excellence. Of course, academics aren’t everything, but so long as there are tests, you will probably need these tricks. Keep an open mind about the techniques, and who knows, you might find...
With the fervor over AI and how ChatGPT will inevitable change English classes — and nary a word from said author of that piece on the scores of books being removed from those classes — it seemed only right to experiment with the tool. How easily could it parrot the talking points of “parental rights” activists? Give the far-right Christian nationalists working to ban any and everything not aligned with their narrow, white, straight worldview an easy template to use and erase even more knowledge? The answer is this: ChatGPT is a better defender of the First Amendment rights of all than Moms For Liberty, No Left Turn in Education, Utah Parents United, and all of the other book banning...
As technology continues to evolve, STEM education is needed more than ever. With the vast technical expertise of its 400,000-plus members and volunteers, IEEE is a leader in engineering and technology education. Its technical societies and its councils, sections, and regional groups offer educational events and resources at every level to support technical professions and prepare the workforce of tomorrow. IEEE offers many ways to support the educational needs of learners. For preuniversity students, the organization offers summer camps and other opportunities to explore science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers. IEEE’s continuing education courses allow professionals to stay up to date on technology, keep their skills sharp, and learn new things. From 2 to 8 April, IEEE is highlighting resources...
Determining the main idea and/or theme of a text are critical reading comprehension skills. While it may seem like main idea is a pretty simple skill for upper elementary, once you start digging into the complexities of adding theme as well, it can get tricky! I’ve learned that teaching main idea and theme in unison can help students discern the difference between the terms. Download Everything You Need– for free! This free PDF guide will allow you to have all of the main idea and theme resources right at your fingertips. It's packed with checklists, book lists, lesson plans, anchor charts, practice activities, and more! Important Main Idea and Theme Vocabulary Note: There is a great deal of conversation about...
