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Create your own Common Core multiple-choice questions using the tips and guidelines below.
Take a journey with my students as they engage in Common Core activities, comparing and contrasting how two authors utilize historical events in their writing and presenting history in expository and descriptive writing.
Learn how to use eReader apps as instructional tools and meet the diverse needs of an inclusive classroom.
From file sharing to social bookmarking, here are five tech-savvy tools to keep you organized.
When my students are confronted with a writing prompt on a state assessment, they unpack the prompt and create a checklist, to be sure they completed all the tasks. In this post, find out how I teach them to do this.
This Common Core learning experience explores the allusions in “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus, the famous poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.
How are successful schools using data to improve state test scores? This article describes how interim assessments are used to assess student mastery of skills, drive instruction, and predict student performance on state assessments.
