Instructional activities

Learn how to apply differentiated instruction strategies to your classroom, ensuring every student has a chance to succeed each day.

Student engagement is my number one goal in the classroom. None of the academic goals can be achieved without student engagement. It is essential! My biggest advice to you is to decrease teacher talk and the time students spend in their desks.I want to share some more specific ways that I keep my students engaged

These engaging strategies to incorporate movement in the classroom are perfect for the fidgety students & kinesthetic learners in your class!

Learning to teach sight words based on research and best practices will make your life easier as well as help your new readers increase mastery and fluency!

Get your students reading and writing this summer with these fun and engaging enrichment activities for elementary grades.

15 exit ticket ideas for any subject or grade level!

Engaging vocabulary review Ideas & activities that can be used with K-5 students! Five fun & collaborative vocabulary instruction ideas.

As a special education teacher, I know the challenge of differentiating instruction. While my district provides a specialized reading and math curriculum for special education classrooms, they are seriously lacking in the science and social studies department. My TPT store provides teachers adapted resources that meets the needs of your students with engaging, hands-on activities that make learning exciting and appropriate.

When I first imagined a socially distant classroom, I had an overwhelming sense of sadness. I was flooded with images of classrooms under "normal" circumstances. I had flashbacks of kids rotating through fun learning stations, playing games together, reading in small groups, completing learning fact hunts, doing hands-on projects, and getting imaginative with their learning. For an instant, I felt like those days were over. Then, I remembered the most fundamental truth about educators…

Writing instruction for special education classrooms. Use this full-year, 40 week, differentiated Sentence Builder resource to teach students how to write a sentence, and to reinforce the skills through interactive sentence building practice. The leveled activities can be used in small or whole group, literacy centers, as morning or word work. Also practices writing, spelling, grammar, capitalization and punctuation, letter formation, word spacing, & more! Learn more at Mrs. D's Corner.