Something Different to Try

Big as Texas- The A to Z Tour of Texas Cities and Places “Is so!” “Is not!” “I’ll bet you that Texas is so big that there’s a city or place in Texas for every letter of the alphabet.” “Okay, prove it!” And so they do- all the way through Big as Texas- The A to Z Tour of Texas Cities and Places. Written for my fourth grade classroom, I packed it full of geography, history, and lots of Texas details along with black line illustrations suitable for coloring. Now out of print, I shar

Spelling Menu 1 Here is Something Different to Try in place of the usual spelling assignments. This generic, multi-level menu study extends learning and retention through activities based on Bloom’s Taxonomy, Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences, Creative Productive Thinking, and Sandra Kaplan’s Depth and Complexity icons. It allows for differentiation for all students through Pace, Process, and Product Choice and can be used as an extension for all students or as an alternate assignment for stude

Most curriculums include some sort of lessons on what makes a community. Want Something Different to Try? Creating a Town is a multi-purpose, multi-level unit of study that can be a menu study for individual students or a teacher directed set of lessons or a technology-based study that introduces MS Publisher or even a mixture of all 3 versions. Included are 20 pages of forms, rubrics, lesson plans, teaching hints, illustrations of sample products, and a chart of higher level thinking sk

Your class has students who struggle, yet others who already know most of the curriculum. Is it fair to hold the fast movers back while the others try to catch up? No! Every child deserves to achieve a year of learning growth. What to Do When They Already Know It includes a menu of ideas for the student who has already mastered the curriculum, a student planning chart, a student/ teacher contract, and pages of helpful pre-testing hints for those star teachers who let kids shine at their highe