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Many school districts have recently adopted a brand new English Language Arts curriculum created by National Geographic called “Reach for Reading”. Once a new curriculum has been adopted, it can be a HUGE challenge sifting through all of the materials received, and it takes quite a while for teachers to sort through all of these materials.read more
Teaching grammar in second grade can be challenging. Sometimes it’s hard to find time to have your students practice their grammar skills. Grammar can be boring, and when students are bored, they are not engaged. Each story that read in class can contain many literacy skills that we can learned and practiced. Tie your story together with these key standards and make it fun!
We created our resources to use with technology in our classrooms, and they are perfect for Daily 5 rotations, ELA Centers, and Literacy Stations. Leveled groups can be created so that your students who need extension and enrichment can work independently, and your struggling students can work with you in small groups as they learn these important skills.
We have bundled these resources to make it easier to use in your classroom. Just pick your grade level and you’re ready to go!
Second Grade Grammar Skills ELA Practice Bundle for CCSS L.2.1 for Google DriveSecond Grade Grammar Skills ELA Practice Bundle for CCSS L.2.2 for Google Drive
Tired of the same old fourth grade “build a mission” project for your fourth grade classroom? California Missions for Google Classroom is the new way to teach a unit on California Missions and California Mission =&0=&!
Engage students with technology!
Students LOVE using technology to research new topics and learn new things. We created two digital resources to help fourth grade teachers modernize their California missions units. We created our Google California Missions UNIT ~ a unit, packed full of passages, text dependent questions, Leveled Essential questions (Costa’s for AVID, DOK, or Bloom’s) writing prompts, a digital research report, and much, much more!
Google Interactive DIgital California Missions Bundle
Google Interactive Digital California Mission Research Report
There are SO MANY REASONS to be migrating toward digital resources. Here are a few benefits:
HIGH student engagement
Accessible ANYWHERE
No printing, cutting, or gluing
Students CANNOT LOSE their work. NO EXCUSES!
Students gain skills needed for high-stakes testing, and College and Career Readiness
If you are preparing for Open House, there are so many ways that you can marry a digital resources with traditional classroom environments. Students can show their parents their digital work by accessing a device in their classroom and confidently show their new skills. You can also add beautiful bulletin boards to accompany this digital work. One of my favorite teachers recently used our resource and added two beautiful boards to compliment their digital work. She printed pieces of their digital report for the wall, and then added a BEAUTIFUL art project to show a splash of color and tap into student creativity.
Of course, if you are not quite ready for Google resources, we are here to help! Just jump in an ask questions. We provided step-by step directions on how to use this resource in Google resource or other platforms.
We do also provide our original, paper variety resources for both our unit and our
