• 5 Strategies to Activate Background Knowledge

    School supplies and text "How to Activate Background Knowledge"

    When students are reading non-fiction text, their comprehension increases if they have some sort of background knowledge about the topic and are familiar with domain-specific vocabulary. It might feel like you are spoiling what the students are about to read when you activate their background knowledge and frontload vocabulary, but the opposite could not be […]

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  • Curriculum Night Parent Activities and Ideas

    Classroom and text: Curriculum Night Activities

    Curriculum Night (also known as Back-to-School Night or Meet the Teacher) can be stressful! Just getting through a normal week of instruction is hard enough but when you add the extra layer of preparing for Curriculum Night, it can feel like you are drowning in a pool of tasks.  But getting ready for Curriculum Night […]

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