Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! The Attentionology Traveler is packed and ready to go with new trips and teaching tricks to share with you in 2013. One of my most favorite, classroom-tested, attention-getting activities…
Barbara Cleary has been serving as a resource to hundreds of educators for more than 25 years.
An award-winning writer, producer, teacher, and trainer, Barbara’s focus is on offering easy, fun tools and tricks that support K-5 curricula and assist teachers with classroom management.
Situation: Students are having trouble writing connecting sentences between the beginning, middle and end of a story.
Solution: Show toy airplanes, pretending to make them "take off" across notebook paper. Explain to the class that stories, like airplanes, require clear "flight paths."