The Educator's Corner

The Common Core State Standards video is a reposted from Council of Great City Schools.

Are your students having trouble summarizing? Need a reading strategy that will help your students write a well-developed summary of a story...

A ugust 28, 1963 was the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation Act, which freed the slaves. More than 200,000 people gather...

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 Struggling readers need to know more words. One of the biggest challenges facing struggling readers is their limited word knowledge. E...

The use of various senses and learning styles will result in greater student learning.

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No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is 11 years old. Happy Birthday NCLB!!! NCLB law has brought many changes to education across the nation...

The Emancipation Proclamation President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The proclamation declared that al...

Some people say that to add four consecutive numbers, you add the first and the last number and multiply by 2. Is this always true? How d...

Happy Holidays Your friends at Educator’s Corner wish you peace and joy this holiday season. We hope 2013 will be a happy and hea...

Learn, Grow, Escape...Read a book Approximately only 1 in 6 people read 12 or more books a year. Fewer than half of today...

My heart, condolences, and prayers go out to the families in Connecticut-Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Magazine Swap At your school or local library, you can place in the entrance a shelf full of magazines people drop off when they are fini...

Share stories that make you glad that you are a teacher! Click here for Inspirational Readings !!!

I just read a very interesting article on reading and adolescents. One of the suggestions in this article was "Relax and Read without ...