This article provides five strategies for building the foundation for climate science literacy in the elementary grades.

This article describes the reading strategy of determining importance and provides templates and guidance for teaching this content area strategy to elementary students.

This is a VDOE Webinar, EL Instruction: Co-Teaching: A Schoolwide Approach, recorded on August, 24, 2020.

This article discusses the role of effort and praise in student motivation and achievement.

In this podcast, listen to a 22-year classroom veteran's tips and strategies for managing students with attention disorders.

This article lists some of the characteristics of dyslexia and dysgraphia at the preschool to upper-elementary school levels and identifies teaching strategies that support all students' learning.

This article discusses explicitly teaching and assessing listening comprehension skills in the elementary grades and provides templates for classroom use.

I created this game to give my students a fun way to practice multiplication!  3rd grade students should participate in meaningful activities to develop an understanding of multiplication and become fluent with their multiplication facts.  This activity supports sol 3.4c, demonstrate fluency with multiplication facts of 0, 1, 2, 5, and 10 and sol 3.4a, represent multiplication and division through 10 × 10, using a variety of approaches and models.  The students make a big circle around the room and play a cakewalk style game and draw pictorial models.  This game should be played after students have had experiences in the classroom working with manipulatives to practice the different approaches and strategies for multiplication.  Movement is an effective way for students to learn and I can easily assess them while they play the game.  My students love this game and ask to play it all the time!   

This article discusses research findings about classroom questioning and provides tips for teachers and online and print resources.

This article discusses the benefits of after school science clubs and provides tips for teachers looking to start their own club.

Four Antarctica researchers describe how they keep warm while working in extreme cold, taking lessons from adaptations of wildlife.

This is a VDOE Webinar, Strategies for Enhancing Co-Teaching Relationships, recorded on August 10, 2020.

This article provides an overview of the reading comprehension strategies of summarizing and synthesizing and links to additional professional and instructional resources.

This article describes the processes of making inferences and using context clues to define unknown words. Links to web sites and articles provide background knowledge and instruction for teachers and students.

This article discusses the reading comprehension strategy of visualization and how it can be used to enhance students' understanding of content-area text. Templates and links are provided.