Using standards to drive your curriculum
Teaching is about more than just planning fun lessons. Use the following steps to use standards to drive your curriculum! We teachers all come into
Teaching is about more than just planning fun lessons. Use the following steps to use standards to drive your curriculum! We teachers all come into
Looking for rigorous, standard-aligned resources? Read about The Sparkly Notebook’s new standard-by-standard product line! Congratulations! You are done with the school year and deserve a
Teaching ELA is hard. There, I said it. The standards are complex and incredibly broad, and they do not lend themselves to knowing exactly what
Use The SPARKLY Notebook’s paired passages to help prep middle school students for tests. These are great resources for all ELA teachers. Many of us
“When will I ever use this in the real world?!?” This is a question heard on repeat in the world of education, and I’m pretty
As you start the year, I think it is important to equip students with reading strategies that will help them develop as better readers. It
Summertime is quickly approaching, and the students are CRAZY! In my experience, this is one of the hardest times in the school year to engage
“How am I going to use this in life?” Has this question frequented your classroom? There are concepts that I teach that I often question
When I first started teaching, I was in the clouds. A lot of people say their first year is the hardest and most stressful, but
Real Teacher Talk. Teaching reading isn’t easy, especially in upper level grades. As a middle school teacher, it breaks my heart to see the reading