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Non Standard Measurement Activities {Our Secret Weapon!}

Non Standard Measurement activities help kids to really learn about measuring. But it needs to be done properly or your kids won't get it! Read on to get our Secret Weapon for teaching non-standard measuring. Before kids are introduced Standard Measurement using rulers and measuring tapes they need to understand what measuring is all about. To build deep understanding of measurement and the…

How To Teach Primary School Algebra In 5 Easy Steps

Do Your Primary Math Students Fear or Struggle With Algebra? Then You Must Try Our Teaching Algebra Top 5 Tricks Tricks To Boost Results! Creating programs for Teaching algebra is a difficult component of teaching numeracy. Our Teaching Algebra Top 5 Tips free printable will help you plan and create successful algebra activities for your preschool, kindergarten and primary aged students. Our Must…

Frayer Model Maths Think Board {Free Printable!}

Frayer Model Maths Think Board are excellent learning tools for EVERY classroom. Easily differentiate any topic and see what kids really understand. Try Our Freebie with your kids Today! Maths Think Board Templates are great teaching tool that will help your students build deeper levels of understanding in a wide range of concepts. They are especially useful in the math classroom to help students…

5 Resources To Make Learning Math Fun

Keeping your students engaged and motivated to participate and learn maths can be challenging. Teaching numeracy and preparing educational resources is also just as demanding. Read on and grab yourself 5 resources to make learning math fun! Do you find yourself spending too much time prepping and laminating a huge range of differentiated resources for all the different abilities in the class? Differentiation…

Thinking & Talking About Math

No Time For Thinking? Recently there has been a over emphasis, & I think misplaced & misunderstood interpretation of Explicit learning, to the extent that I have seen maths lessons become a 'Chart bark' of blah, blah blah! Not good, and probably not what explicit teaching is really about! Amy Lin loves math, is passionate about teaching math and has seen how children's fear…

How To Help Students Who Are Dyslexic

Do you have students who are dyslexic or displaying the signs of dyslexia? If you do then you need to know about the Dyslexie Font! Dyslexia is a language-based processing learning disability. It affects both adults and children and causes problems with accuracy & fluency in literacy, particularly difficulties in word recognition, decoding and spelling. These problems can also lead to problems in…

Over Pronunciation, Syllables & Dyslexia

Here's a great piece by Kelli Sandman-Hurley, Ed.D.dyslexia Expert and Advocate from Edutopia who talks about how syllables & OVER- PRONUNCIATION can mask morphological boundaries and hide the meaningful structures of words. She demonstrates this with the misspelling of the word "evry"... How many times have you seen the word every misspelled as "evry"? What did you do to remedy the situation? I bet you…

Is Minecraft Really Educational?

Call me cynical... but is Minecraft really educational or is it an attempt to make school look exciting? Well I was proved wrong by this interesting article in The Conversation which highlighted that schools are now designing curriculum in the key learning areas to Minecraft...READ MORE... Find out how to align curriculum to Minecraft and... Have students create or explore a Real-Life building…

Reading Strategies

Guided Reading instruction is an effective strategy but only if you provide relevant support, books & Activities to meet your students needs. In fact without the correct scaffolds in pace guided reading can fail to assist students to develop & extend their reading ability... Maria Walther a 1st Grade Teacher, Author, and Literacy Consultant (www.mariawalther.com) from Aurora wrote a very useful article for…