Outdoor Education Activity – Symmetry Bugs
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated April 09, 2024 Welcome back to post #4 in my ongoing Outdoor Learning series! Through these posts I hope to share some fun outdoor education based ideas and…
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Introduction to Story Studio
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated April 09, 2024 In today’s post, I want to shine a spotlight on a teaching strategy that truly fuels my passion – Story Studio. This dynamic literacy framework…
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Text Mapping – reading Comprehension
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated Dec 8, 2023 Text Mapping is an excellent strategy to help students understand challenging text. Through this hands-on approach, students learn to mark up text while practicing key…
Ancient Egypt Interactive Notebooks
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated March 15, 2024 Ancient Egypt Interactive Notebook Ideas Ancient Civilizations are obviously a passion of mine. Because of this, I thought I would spend this post discussing ways…
Interactive Notebooks: The Odyssey
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated April 09, 2024 Welcome back to another post in my series on Interactive Notebooks! Today I want to talk all about my favorite novel study of all time…
Animal Adaptations: Top Five Ways to Engage
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated April 04, 2024 Today I am here to share 5 fun ways to teach all about Animal Adaptations. Our Animal Adaptations science unit with my grade 2/3 group…