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A place-value system is one in which the position of a digit in a number determines its value, and a place-value chart is a way to make sure digits are in the correct places.
July 27, 2021
How do you foster a sense of safety and belonging so students can focus their energy on learning? These strategies for building community in the classroom will help.
Perry Hollins
Fourth-Grade Teacher, Evanston/Skokie School District, Illinois
July 23, 2021
Explore tips and resources that will help you build a culturally diverse classroom library and foster an inclusive classroom environment.
Carey Blankenship
Shaped Staff
July 23, 2021
Explore our hub of 2021 back-to-school articles and resources, which explore strategies, offer articles for teachers, and provide back-to-school teaching resources for the new school year.
Shaped Staff
July 23, 2021
This article answers the question, what is oral reading fluency? It provides fluency teaching strategies after defining fluency and explaining why it's important.
Dr. Amy Endo
Education Research Director, Supplemental & Intervention Language & Literacy
July 20, 2021
Providing an oral reading fluency assessment is an important part of not just providing oral reading fluency instruction but measuring growth and ensuring effective instruction.
Dr. Amy Endo
Education Research Director, Supplemental & Intervention Language & Literacy
July 20, 2021
Summer Announcement! Make sure to vote for the Teachers in America podcast this July in the 16th Annual Podcast Awards for the education category.
Ali Habashi
Shaped Editor
July 19, 2021
Try these strategies to engage long-term English learners and provide the support students need in the classroom.
Carissa Ford
Learning Experience Designer, English Language Development, HMH
July 16, 2021
In a special Olympic edition of the Math at Work web series, paired with activities based on the Olympic Games, students will learn how important math is to the world of sports.
July 13, 2021
See how the staff of Glasgow Middle School in Glasgow, Kentucky measured and met their students' social and emotional needs as their classroom went virtual.
Regina Murphy
Principal, Glasgow Middle School
July 12, 2021
There are various benefits of independent reading, including improving your students’ fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Read more about how you can empower your students to become lifelong readers by providing an independent reading library.
Shaped Staff
July 12, 2021
Teach students about plane shapes, or closed, two-dimensional figures, and solid shapes, which include many of the everyday objects with which students are familiar.
July 12, 2021
Need to catch kids up or move them forward? Try these research-backed accelerated learning techniques.
Shaped Staff
July 07, 2021
Teach students the skills needed for success in and out of the classroom with these social and emotional activities and SEL lesson plans.
Shaped Staff
July 06, 2021
An engaging ELA-based science curriculum that features hands-on science activities allows students to hone their writing, speaking and listening, and reading skills while developing a deeper understanding of the subject.
Shaped Staff
June 28, 2021
Get tips from literacy expert JillE on small-group reading instruction, which allows for a more intimate setting and enables teachers to observe students more closely.
Jill Eggleton, QSO
International Literacy Consultant and Children’s Book Author; Author and Advisor, Into Reading
June 24, 2021
Five routines are provided to help math teachers establish routines and promote mathematical discourse this school year. The routines consist of four Talk Moves and one language routine.
Richard Blankman
Shaped Editor
June 22, 2021
In this lesson, use factor trees to teach students the concept that a composite number is written as a product of all of its prime factors.
June 21, 2021