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STAAR test prep doesn’t have to be boring, stressful, or overwhelming! This teacher-friendly guide is packed with engaging, low-prep strategies to help 3rd-5th grade students build reading stamina, comprehension, and confidence before test day. What’s Inside:✔️ Build Reading Stamina – Fun, structured ways to help students tackle long passages ✔️ Think Like a Test-Maker – Routines that teach students how to find and explain text evidence ✔️ Fix It to Win It – Interactive grammar & editi

February is the perfect time to build a kind and caring classroom! This Kindness Bingo Board makes it fun and easy for K-3 students to practice simple acts of kindness all month long. Download your Kindness Bingo Board below or share the link with your favorite K-3 educators!

February is the perfect time to focus on kindness, empathy, and building a positive classroom community! With Valentine’s Day around the corner, let’s go beyond candy and cards by encouraging students to practice small acts of kindness every day. This printable resource is designed for Kindergarten through 3rd grade and is a fun, low-prep way to help students build positive habits that extend beyond the classroom. How It Works:✅ Students complete acts of kindness like giving a compliment, he

Streamline your next parent-teacher conference with this simple and effective planning page! Designed to help you stay organized and focused, this tool provides space for you to record key details about each student, including strengths, areas for growth including academic and social-emotional, and specific talking points. With designated sections for the sandwich method, you’ll ensure that every conference is productive and runs smoothly. Perfect for busy teachers who want to feel prepared and

As a reading teacher, you are probably already doing heart work and head work, maybe you just haven’t named it for students.  When you ask students to make connections to the main character, you are asking them to do heart work. They have to look within themselves, first know about themselves as humans, before they can connect to a text in any way. An interactive read aloud provides not only practice of reading skills, but also leaves us, the community of readers, with a moral, lesson or theme t

As a reading teacher, you are probably already doing this work, maybe you just haven’t named it for students.  When you ask students to make connections to the main character, you are asking them to do heart work. They have to look within themselves, first know about themselves as humans, before they can connect to a text in any way. An interactive read aloud provides not only practice of reading skills, but also leaves us, the community of readers, with a moral, lesson or theme that impacts our

As a reading teacher, you are probably already doing this work, maybe you just haven’t named it for students.  When you ask students to make connections to the main character, you are asking them to do heart work. They have to look within themselves, first know about themselves as humans, before they can connect to a text in any way. An interactive read aloud provides not only practice of reading skills, but also leaves us, the community of readers, with a moral, lesson or theme that impacts our

Looking for a way to boost morale and increase students' confidence during test taking season? Look no further! Invite students to sing about taking the test right before they take the test.  Take Our Test is sung to the tune of Be Our Guest from Beauty and the Beast. It can be sung chorally right before your students take a test. When we have students sing together while displaying the lyrics, we not only boost fluency and decoding skills but we also boost their morale during test taking sea