Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! In summertime (Northern Hemisphere) or winter (Southern Hemisphere), vacation time is… a time when many children go “on the road” with family or friends to destinations near and far.…
Use Creative Road Signs to Pave the Way to Smart Vacations
Tagged with: 3 - 5, A, Attentionology for K - 5 Teachers, character education, core curriculum, creative ways to motivate kids, K - 2, mastering the writing process, multi-disciplinary, preparing kids for vacation time learning, puppets as teaching tools, Summer, teaching K - 5 kids communication skills, turning posters into puppet stages, using creative road signs to help kids learn, Winter
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It’s a Puzzle! – Helping Struggling Writers
Mid-Week Focus this week features a visually based approach to helping elementary school students who struggle with language arts. You know who they are in your class. The teachers I met with yesterday to plan my upcoming week as a writer…
Tagged with: 3 - 5, concept of writing like piecing puzzles together, Fall, graphics that help kids learn, helping struggling writers in elementary school, K - 2, Literary, mastering the writing process, Mid-Week Focus, painting pictures with words, Spring, strategies to build children's self-confidence, Summer, Visuals, Winter
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Posted in Mid-Week Focus
Start Students’ Engines for Writing
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! Last Monday’s Attentionology post presented the how-to of turning your instructional space into a classroom of the traveling story. Visit the post to review this approach to taking flight…
Tagged with: Bulletin board featuring car racing for writing, classroom-tested teaching strategies, engaging reluctant writers, helping boys that struggle with writing, Literary, mastering the writing process, relating car maintenance to writing, Steve Peha's writing resources, teachers' blogs in 100 nations, teaching kids to use power verbs, toy cars as teaching tools
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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.
