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Hey everyone! I have linked my resource here for y'all to see. I think this is a wonderful resource for us future math teachers. It is a website created by Howard County School System, and it is jam packed for of resources and tools. The particular page I linked is for 5th grade math, and there are tons of different pdf files available for download. From place value charts to grids to venn diagrams, this website has so much to offer. As future math teacher, I think we will sometimes have a perfect lesson in our heads, but not have the resources to make it successful in our classrooms. Having these files that we can download instantly will for sure come in handy when we are trying to create interesting lessons. Not to mention, students love a fun worksheet, especially the kind that don't actually have real problems. Most of these pdf documents are supplementary materials, things that we can integrate into our lessons that students can use to visualize concepts. Whil

Hey everyone! I am super excited about the resource I found for this weeks resource blog. I have linked it here for everyone. Open Up Resources is such an awesome resource, it even has the word resource in the name. In open up, you can choose your grade level and select teacher, parent, or student. Once selecting these options, you have access to so many different lessons and practice activities. I went through the family and student options (you have to sign up for the teacher option) and I was able to see all the units, go through lessons that directly correlate with the standards, and have access to countless practice problems. Once I start teaching, I will definitely sign up (and pay) to use this resource as a teacher, but even the things offered to students and families are amazing and worthwhile as is.  I think it is easy for people to wonder why literacy is important in math, but I would have to tell them that literacy is embedded into mathematics. Literacy i

Reading is a fundamental concept that should be learned before the middle grades, however this is not always the case. In order to combat this, chapter 11 focuses on strategies for helping struggling readers. One of these strategies that stuck out to me was “use materials students can successfully read, but also give them extensive support for more challenging texts.” When using a text in the classroom, it is so important that we choose one that students can read. If they can’t read it, then there won’t be any understanding. This is not to say that we only need to choose below grade level or very easy text. It is important that we choose texts that still challenge our students, all of our students. In order to successfully do this, we must know our students and their reading levels. As a teacher, we must be intentional about making decisions in our classrooms based on our students' needs. Reading across the curriculum is important, and many times needed for student achieveme