One Pagers: What are they?
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated March 04, 2024 What is a One Pager? Today, I’m excited to dive into a valuable review tool that has the potential to enhance learning across all subject…
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Blog · Elementary · English · Middle School
Close Reading Strategies: Tips and Tricks
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated April 04, 2024 Welcome back friends! After talking all about Text Mapping in my last mini lesson focused post, I thought I should spend some time talking about…
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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…
Hatchet Novel Study Activities
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen is one of my very favorite novels to teach. I sometimes struggle with engaging my struggling middle school boys, and the male protagonist and survival theme really…