• How to Use Halloween to Teach Descriptive Writing

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    Halloween is a perfect time to work on narrative writing. Students love writing spooky stories and the character ideas are endless with witches, goblins, monsters, etc.  How to Use Halloween to Teach Descriptive Writing I use Halloween theme writing as a perfect opportunity to teach how to add more details to stories or narratives. The […]

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  • How to Divide with the Area/Box Method to Teach Long Division

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    Are you unsure of how to teach division using the area or box method using partial quotients? Are you looking for a better way to teach the area method dor division but you aren’t sure how?  Teaching Division for Conceptual Understanding If you are like me, you grew up learning how to do long division […]

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