www.abouttimebooks.com

One way to improve reading skills is to add word games to your lessons. Word searches, crossword puzzles, and word games can give you better understanding of words, increase your vocabulary, and provide entertainment to readers. Games such as Scrabble, Boggle, and Apples to Apples, are perfect examples of comprehension games.
Another tip is to choose new books that will challenge your mind. Set new and more difficult goals each time you are finished with a book. By choosing longer, higher advanced reading books each (more…)

How can you bring history alive in your classroom? One way is to visit a local historical site: a museum, a battlefield, a historical building, a farm, or other geographic site. Go to an historical re-enactment. If you are limited to the classroom however, here are some suggestions to make history come alive.

Do your own re-enactment of important historical events. If you are studying the Constitutional Convention of 1787, have the students each play a representative to (more…)

Assigning papers for students to do is great, but figuring out how you are going to fairly grade those papers is not always so easy. There are many different methods that people have taken over the years to try to grade papers turned in by students. When they do this, they are trying out different things that they cannot be sure will work. If the methods do work, then that is great, but if they do not, then it is just unfair to the students.

One tip to grade papers fairly is (more…)