How to Teach Character Motivation
April 11, 2023
One key component of a character is their motivation – why do they act and speak as they do? What do they ultimately want?
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One key component of a character is their motivation – why do they act and speak as they do? What do they ultimately want?
Understanding the different aspects of a character’s personality, motivation, and transformation can help students better understand all the other elements of a story, as well as the author’s overall message.
Understanding active and passive voice can help students write clearer and more effective sentences. It can also help them better comprehend the meaning of what they are reading.
By analyzing the differences between active and passive voice, students can develop critical thinking skills and learn to think more deeply about the language they use.
Why worry about prefix and suffix activities when there are so many other things to teach? Studying common prefixes and suffixes can have a huge impact on your students’ learning! They become better readers, spellers, and writers. Here are a few simple ideas and activities to supercharge your lessons, keep your students engaged, and make the practice meaningful.
Teaching complex sentence writing to students can be a challenging task. Here are a few simple, but effective strategies you can use to help your students understand and use these sentences effectively.
Teaching Apostrophes in Possessive Nouns Using apostrophes in possessive nouns is one of the most challenging punctuation skills young students need to learn. Once they’ve been introduced to this punctuation
Common and Proper Nouns – 4 Steps to Success Once students can confidently answer the question, “What are nouns?”, they’re ready to move on to learning about common and proper
As an adult, when we prepare to teach concrete nouns it seems like it would be easy. However, we’ve all had students who seem to struggle with learning this concept. Three easy steps can change that!
Read on to find out what you can do to make learning about nouns a complete success in your classroom.
Why should you choose to set classroom expectations instead of classroom rules? No classroom runs efficiently without classroom rules, right? As teachers, we know that having rules for student
Raise those test scores! Master the standards! Increase reading levels! It seems every meeting a teacher sits through these days is based on some variation of these messages. We’re asked
