Part of creating bully-free, safe and positive learning environments has a lot to do with teaching kindness. Here’s a list of lessons and activities that will promote kindness in your classroom.
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Adventures in learning: The complete guide to CSI Private Eye
CSI Private Eye is a series of fascinating true stories that students interact with like a video game, but gets them reading, writing and problem-solving along the way. Find out why it’s the ultimate digital resource for your classroom.
Reading strategies and how to teach them: Visualizing
Visualizing is the reading strategy that helps your students create a picture in their head of what they’re reading, almost as if your students are making videos or movies in their heads, all built from their background knowledge, their imagination, and the content of the text.
Here are some tips for teaching students to visualize.
Reading strategies and how to teach them: Determining the important idea
Ask a reader what they have learned from a text and you’re going to get one of two answers. Students will have either grasped the main idea or skipped right past it. If it’s the latter, it’s likely that these learners need help with a very important reading strategy: determining the important idea. Here are some tips.
Reading strategies and how to teach them: Asking questions
Too often “teaching” comprehension often involves students reading a text and answering a set of questions about it. It should be the other way around – to be a proficient reader, students need to ask questions. Here’s how to teach your students to ask questions.
Reading strategies and how to teach them: Drawing inferences
Familiar with the phrase “reading between the lines”? Drawing inferences from the text is like reading between the lines – it’s looking for the meaning that isn’t written down word-by-word. Here are some ways you can help students develop this important reading strategy.
Reading strategies and how to teach them: Making connections
Making connections is a reading strategy that helps students find meaning in a text by connecting it to their own life. It's particularly important for English language learners. Here are some ways to teach students to make connections in their reading.
CSI Private Eye: Teaching by stealth
Lynlee Lawrence is a head teacher in Wellington, New Zealand. Lynlee says CSI Private Eye is "the best online resource I've come across." We sat down with her to find out why.
Are leveled reading groups the best way to teach reading?
“Are leveled reading groups the best way to teach reading?” That was the question posed in an article I read recently. I’ve never been much of a fan of leveling anyway, but here’s the question I’d ask instead: “How would you like to spend your school life in the bottom reading group?”
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s guide to life in the classroom
10 great lessons from actor/iron pumper Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to uplift you in your practice as a teacher.