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🦋 Spring Reading That Soars: A Butterfly-Themed Literacy Pack Your Students Will Love
As the school year winds down and summer begins to bloom, many classrooms take on a lighter, more curious tone—and The Missing Monarch is the perfect story to ride those summer vibes. Whether you’re wrapping up the year, planning a summer school unit, or just looking for engaging content to finish strong, this butterfly-themed Sweet Reads + Skills…
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Why Bundling Reading + Skills Makes Teaching So Much Easier
If you’ve ever found yourself hopping from one resource to another—trying to make one reading passage fit with unrelated vocabulary practice and a random grammar worksheet—you’re not alone. It’s exhausting. It’s inconsistent. And it’s not how we want to teach. That’s why I created the Sweet Reads + Skills Packs to work as bundled, connected units—where reading comprehension, vocabulary,…
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Teaching Students How to Think While They Read
Have you ever asked a comprehension question and watched students flip frantically back through the book, hoping the answer will jump out at them? Many young readers believe comprehension is about finding answers, not thinking through the text. They read the words, but their minds aren’t actively engaged. When this happens, comprehension feels hard—not because students can’tunderstand, but because they…
Teaching through LITerature
