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You and Your Students Can Make a Kahoot in 4 Super Easy Steps

SVG Image Map Example You (and your students) can make a Kahoot in no time flat! If you haven’t yet played Kahoot with your students,

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5 Fun and Effective Ways to Teach Test-Taking Vocabulary

The standardized testing season will be here before you know it. Whether this time of year excites you or frightens you, it’s time to prepare

Close reading is a challenging technique to implement in the classroom, as it requires a delicate balance. I've tried to make close reading instruction easier with the help of these two no-prep close reading resources. They're ready for you to use right away, and they come with text dependent questions. Get all of the details about what these resources include and how you can implement them in your classroom in this post!

No-Prep Close Reading

I hope your students read real books and articles. I hope you facilitate close reading activities using those books. I hope your students are having lively

5 Tips for Teaching Academic Language

Today, Marine from Tales from a Very Busy Teacher is our guest blogger. She’s sharing how she has successfully implemented strategies for teaching academic language

Grab Your I Heart Literacy Freebie!

I’d love for you to try I Heart Literacy, so I whipped up a 5-page freebie (plus answer keys) to make it super easy! I

Ever heard of test prep rallies? Check out these ways to have test prep rallies at your school to head into standardized testing with a positive mindset!

Score with Your Test Prep Rally

Hi, I’m Sandra. I’m so honored to be writing about test prep rallies for Minds in Bloom. Test pep or prep rallies are motivational school

36 Awesome Test Prep Review Ideas!

Need Some Ideas for Test Review? It’s time to review what you’ve been working on all year long for those oh-so-important standardized tests. But don’t

Test prep doesn't have to be - and shouldn't be - all about test prep booklets. This guest post on Minds in Bloom shares a few fun alternatives to drill and kill test prep practices, including the use of whiteboards, task cards, and games. Get all of the suggestions and how to implement them in this post!

Test Prep with Pep: Fun Alternatives to Drill and Kill

This guest post from Samantha Harrell of Riveted Little Readers is a MUST READ for any teacher giving standardized tests. “It’s the most wonderful

Test prep task cards are immensely useful, there's no doubt about that. However, after making two sets of test prep task cards aligned to the Common Core, I decided to stop. Why? Because the sets were extremely challenging, and it made me realize that the Common Core is driven by testing and performance, not curriculum and instruction.

Why I Have Stopped Creating Test Prep Task Cards

Recently, I created two sets of math test prep task cards, one for grade 3 and one for grade 4. I designed the cards to

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