Jennifer's Teaching Tools

We are beginning our unit on poetry in reading next week.  We are starting with an overview of the four types of poetry they are expected to...

My kids really struggled with writing strong leads for their personal narratives.  I found this awesome anchor chart on Pinterest to give th...

I recently discovered this awesome book for teaching plot.  It is so cute. The class loved this book!   This book is also a great res...

Discussing a character's traits is not new to my third graders, but we started by reviewing a list of character traits.  Then we discu...

This week we are working on monitoring comprehension.  I have been modeling how to stop and think about reading and also write about what we...

Throughout the year in my classroom I introduced many apps to the class.  We used these apps at stations and to create final products for ou...

I have just enough time to post a few activities that we are using during this crazy end of the year time! Our school theme this year is ...