Kate Bender

We all want to ensure that we are using the most effective instructional strategies that will help our students reach their full potential! Robert Marzano has conducted extensive research to find the 9 most effective instructional strategies that just that. I created this chart as a quick reference guide to them! I post them in my room and with my lesson plans as I am getting ready to plan my instruction each week! It is a great resource to use to make sure I am implementing the strategies that

Let your students be scientists using this wonderful celery experiment that has them using inquiry learning to make predictions, conduct experiments, record observations and draw conclusions! Includes lesson plans, literature links and activity sheets!

We all know that guided reading is a critical piece to the ELA block in a primary classroom. Knowing the characteristics of the early and emergent readers in our classroom is crucial to growing them as readers. This is a wonderful powerpoint created by myself and a fellow teacher that will help you better understand the early and emergent readers in your classroom. It is based on the work of Jan Richardson. Enjoy!

Knowing the most effective, research based instructional strategies is key to helping students achieve! I created this power point based on the research of Robert Marzano. It is a great resources to use with new teachers, duirng inservice, for a graduate class and with administrators!

We all want our students to develop as writers and readers! I created this Word Wall for students to put in their writing journals to assist them with the spelling of high frequency sight words. I also send a laminated Word Wall home for them to use when they are writing! it is a wonderful resource!

We all want our students to develop as writers and readers! I created this Word Wall for students to put in their writing journals to assist them with the spelling of high frequency sight words. I also send a laminated Word Wall home for them to use when they are writing! it is a wonderful resource!

Students can learn about our past presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln as they have fun sorting facts about each!

This is a wonderful sort to use when teaching children about singular and plural words! When doing the activity students will have the opportunity to sort words that are singular versus plural words!