Celebrate multicultural holidays in your classroom! Chinese New Year is an important holiday. It honors household gods and ancestors. The holiday is also known as Spring Festival. This activity will introduce students to the traditions of Chinese New Year. Read a Chinese New Year passage about the history and traditions of the holiday. Then follow … Continue reading Chinese New Year Activity: Message of Good Fortune
It may be challenging getting students to follow directions and listen, especially coming back from winter break. Try this fun listening skills activity in your classroom to catch their attention. Directions: Explain to the class that you are going to do an activity to practice listening skills and following directions. Students need to be sitting where … Continue reading Following Directions: A Listening Skills Activity for Students
Project-based writing puts a spin on project-based learning, which is the act of learning through identifying a real-world problem and developing its solution. Project-based writing activities are differentiated and cross-curricular, and are totally different from essays which are bigger and more subject focus, although there are many people which have difficulty with essays, so they … Continue reading Top 10 Reasons to Teach Project-Based Writing
Use pre-assessment formative activities before beginning a unit. Assess where your class is as a whole. Use this information to decide where to begin and to see who might need extra help, and who might be ready for advanced work. Look at each activity carefully and change or add to any idea before making copies … Continue reading 8 Great Ways to Use Formative Assessment in Your Class