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Ways to Bring Graphing Activities into Your Classroom Daily

by BrainNinjasWP

What are some fo the ways you teaching graphing to your students? We try to include graphing activities throughout all the subject areas. Come read how we make graphing more authentic in and out of math class.

It always surprises me when I hear teachers saying they are starting a math unit on graphing and statistics. Reading a graph or a chart is a skill we use throughout many subject areas. Looking at patterns in statistics comes up in science and social studies all the time. Here are the ways we weave graphing activities into our classroom all year long and throughout the different subject areas.

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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons, Teaching Strategies Tagged With: graphing, interactive math notebooks, Math Worksheets, statistics, statistics and probability, Teachers Pay Teachers, text features

Research Skills: How to Teach Text Features

by BrainNinjasWP

Understanding text features is one way to help your students with reading comprehension. Come learn how we teach our students about text features while reading nonfiction texts. We even had some free tools for you to use in your upper elementary classroom.

How often do you give your students a book and they can’t find any information in it? It seems if a page isn’t blinking and flashing they can’t seem to work it. Explicitly teaching text features can help your students understand how to process information better. This won’t just help with their reading, but it will help with all of their research, following directions and locating information quickly in all their subject areas.

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Filed Under: Teaching Strategies Tagged With: free resources, nonfiction texts, Reading, reading comprehension, research, research skills, text features

How to Teach Research Skills in the Library

by BrainNinjasWP

With all the digital resources available, the library seems to be overlooked. Schools are cutting back on librarians and purchasing books. What a waste! There are so many valauble research skills that can be taught in the library. Come read some of the ways we do it.

When you want to do research in your school library do you often find your school just can’t afford the resources (or even the librarian) you need? This is why so often we take our students online to do research. In doing this, we often teach students that libraries are not a valuable resource because nothing could be further from the truth. Help your students build research skills by taking them back to the library and showing them the value.

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Filed Under: Teaching Strategies Tagged With: books, Language Arts, Learning Commons, library, nonfiction texts, research skills, text features

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