Teaching Pronouns

 Oh man, I love teaching writing and grammar. My co-teacher and I once put on the song Karma Chameleon and danced around the room singing "comma chameleon" before a comma lesson.

Look, you have to laugh and have fun or you'll go insane. My personal pedagogy hahah! And let's be honest- grammar isn't the juiciest topic. It can be boring. And can we be super honest here? The rules evade us sometimes too! I feel like I'm constantly checking myself to make sure I'm using commas or apostrophes or pronouns correctly because ... this is complicated stuff!

Pronouns were something that I could see my students floundering with in their writing, so I knew I needed to give this topic a bit more attention. I whipped us this pronouns mini unit with things I could see my students confusing in their writing, so it easily folded into our writer's workshop mini lessons.

The activities are short and snappy and direct to the point. Bonus? A teaching guide & answer key are included for you because let's be so for real. Grammar probably isn't your favorite subject to teacher. At least now you don't have to stress over it!

Click any of the photos above or this link here to purchase this unit from my Teachers Pay Teachers store!

XO Emily

Making Inferences Unit

 Sometimes education terms are thrown around and used so often that they become meaningless. Close reading started to become one of those phrases for me. Of course we want our kids paying attention when they read. Of course we want them thinking critically. Of course we want them to be able to comprehend and then discuss what they've read.

But what exactly does that mean for us as teachers planning lessons and targeting objectives? The place I like to start is with making inferences. We do this all the time as mature, experienced readers. But it helps our growing readers when we make the implicit... well, explicit (wink wink).

This concept can be very technical but I've szushed it up with games and activities that get students much more hands on with texts. And the best part is you can use it with any texts that your district requires!

I've also differentiated the material so it's accessible for all of our students! You can even use the differentiated version in the beginning of the year and circle back mid-year as a refresher with the other activities.

This bundle of the mini unit and game are available in my Teachers Pay Teachers store. I'd love to hear from you if you use this unit!

XO Emily