Teacher's Take-Out

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Do you use dictation in the classroom? If you don't, maybe you should think about implementing it into your lessons. Dictation sentences help with spelling, listening skills, and understanding of the English language. It also helps with writing complete sentences and sentence structure.

Free Daily Dictation Journal for Primary

There are 2 ways to assemble the Dictation Journal.

1. Copy the 8x10 cover and students use the 3 entries on a page.

2. Copy the 8x10 page and cut it into 3 equal sizes for mini-journals. Cut the writing pages to assemble behind the cover.

Use the cover sheet for the front of the journal or use your own cover. A piece of colored construction paper cut to size works perfectly too. Students can decorate the cover in their own way.

Copy enough pages of the writing template. Or you can use your own lined paper to fill the journal.

Dictate a sentence a day to students. They write the entire sentence word for word on the writing lines.

Use spelling words, vocabulary words, math vocabulary, homophones, vowel sounds focus, descriptions, or sentences from their reading books to dictate sentences. The door is open to dictate any sentence you need students working on or thinking about.

Take it a step further and have students edit their sentences or circle the long vowel words. Use high-lighters to focus on specific words in the sentences. Students will go crazy to be able to use their high-lighters!

Daily Dictation is something super easy to do and takes only a few minutes, AND so beneficial.

Show journals at parent/teacher conferences. Parents will be able to see how their child’s sentences improve from beginning to end. These journals also help you see which students need extra help and which students are moving to mastery.

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Monster Math Multiplication Freebie

Sunday, April 6, 2014

Do you need some extra practice using multiplication? If your students are just learning their multiplication facts, I have some fun games to share with you. These dice games reinforce multiplication facts 1-6. I want to offer this freebie from my Monster Multiplication Dice Game Pack to start learning those multiplication facts. It has a fun and engaging monster theme! All you need to do is print and play.

How to play:
1. Two Players take turns rolling 2 dice.
2. The Players multiply the 2 numbers and announce the product.
3. Players cover the product on the game board with a game piece.
4. First player to cover 4 numbers in a row, wins!

Just click the picture to download the free game.

Need more monster multiplication games? Read below.

Monster Multiplication Dice Games includes 10 game boards. The game boards are fun and engaging with a monster theme. Each game board just needs two dice, some game tokens to cover the numbers, and players! These games are designed to print and play. Students will be learning and practicing their multiplication facts 1-6. Here are some game boards:

Here are more monster games that concentrate on the factors 1-10. Each game board focuses on one factor at a time. Plus there are a mix of game boards as well as missing numbers. This pack also comes in a division version as well.

These games are set up to print and play as well. No dice are required for these games.