Fun Twosday Activities That Your Students Will Love!
Are you ready for TWOS-day? If you’re anything like me, you want to find some fun activities to celebrate this special date! I have put together a list of Twosday activities that are perfect...
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14 Ideas for National Grammar Day Activities (that you can use any day!)
I have always been a bit of a grammar nerd, but I realize that not all students share my love of all things grammar. To be fair, many grammar activities can be less than...
Can’t access Google Slides? Here’s the workaround
If you have purchased an escape room on TpT or another marketplace, you may have discovered the hard way that your school district blocks outside Google links on your students’ devices. Not all schools...
7 Creative Homophones Activities and Games for Better Spelling
Teaching homophones is an important part of language arts lessons, and students need lots of practice with them. But quite often homophones activities lack the necessary challenge or just tend to be a bit...
Spooky Writing Ideas for Halloween
I love everything about Halloween – the scary movies, the decorations, trick or treaters, Halloween parties – all of it! So of course, I find every way possible to incorporate this theme into my...
17 Creative Ways to Teach English With Songs
I love music, and I have found that it is also one of the best ways to engage students. It adds an element of fun to the learning process, which helps make concepts stick....
How to Get the Biggest Bang for Your TpT Buck
Although I have a store on Teachers Pay Teachers, I also buy products for my own students there. I am definitely not an expert on all the things, and there are so many resources...
4 FREE Puzzles and Activities for your ELA or ESL Class
While I use a variety of types of activities and lessons with my students, there is a special place in my heart for games and puzzles, and activities that really get students thinking. That’s...
9 Things to Know About Using Boom Cards™
Now is the perfect time to get started with Boom Cards! I have been a huge fan of Boom Cards ever since I discovered them about 4 years ago. I can say that I...
5 Fun Games That Will Spice Up Your Virtual Lessons
When the 2020 pandemic hit, teachers were suddenly faced with new teaching challenges that no one could have predicted: teaching completely online. My instinct was that while we as teachers were stressing about how...