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- Student Engagement
5 Dice Games Your Students Will Love
Students build computational skills and their confidence and ability to talk about math effectively with these games. - Communication Skills
Guiding Kids to Talk to Parents About Their Assignments
With intentional support from their teachers, students can take the lead when it’s time to talk to their parents about their academic progress.116Your content has been saved!
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Helping Elementary Students Improve Their Working Memory
Explicitly teaching brain-based memory strategies can help students build their executive function skills. - Literacy
How Read-Alouds Can Encourage Student Writers
Story time can be effective in guiding students—even middle school students—to recognize the possibilities of producing their own writing.182Your content has been saved!
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60-Second Strategy: Silent Partners
When teachers bring this fun formative assessment game into a lesson, they get a snapshot of what students have understood, and what they haven’t.Your content has been saved!
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A Simple Visual Routine to Help Students Engage With Poetry
Teachers can have students create comics based on poems to better understand their themes and spark meaningful conversation.151Your content has been saved!
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Using Digital Media to Promote Screen-Free Learning
Preschool teachers can share these resources with families as a catalyst for at-home learning experiences.126Your content has been saved!
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Why My Classroom Furniture Never Stays Still for Long
Rearranging the desks and tables depending on the learning activity signals to students that they also need a shift in thinking. - English Language Learners
Helping Young Multilingual Learners Develop Their Metacognitive Skills
An educator explains how students can more easily access common supports like visuals, sentence frames, and pair-share.345Your content has been saved!
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5 Picture Books That Encourage Creativity in Kindergarten
Paired with fun activities, these picture books help build skills like fluency, flexibility, elaboration, and originality.
