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Taking the Mystery Out of Vocabulary Study
Two Freebies and a Fun Game
Learning new vocabulary is critical to student success, but studying vocabulary isn't always that exciting. I used several different strategies in my classroom and I enjoyed sharing them on Corkboard Connections last week. Both of those strategies come with a downloadable freebie.
 Mystery Vocabulary Detectives
I also created an exciting game that I know your students will LOVE! Mystery Vocabulary Detectives is a Common Core aligned game in which players take turns being Detectives and Eyewitnesses. In each round, the Eyewitness secretly selects a vocabulary card from a prepared deck and begins giving clues about the word's meaning. The Detectives have to figure out what the word is based on the clues. Since I don't have a class myself right now, I asked some of my Facebook friends to field test it with their students. Apparently, Mystery Vocabulary Detectives was a smash hit with both the students and the teachers. The kids thought it was great fun, and the teachers liked that it is aligned with Common Core Vocabulary Standards. You can find it in my TeachersPayTeachers Store.
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Laura Candler's Common Core Workshops
July 25 - 26, 2013
Fayetteville, NC
Join me this summer at the Holiday Inn Bordeaux in Fayetteville, NC, for two exciting summer workshops! I've taken my two most popular workshops and revised them so that they are aligned with Common Core State Standards. You can click each title below to learn more and register. Registration is limited to 50 people in each session, so sign up now!
Power Reading Workshop: Targeting the Common Core
July 25th, 2013
The Dynamic Duo: Effective Math Instruction at its Core
July 26th, 2013
Early registration discount applies before June 1st, and a group discount rate is available.
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 Seasonal Teaching
Resources for March
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Recommend Your Favorite Presentation Tech Tools for Kids
Help Needed with Collaborative Project
Do you have a favorite presentation tech tool that you use with your students? There are so many great free online tools or mobile device apps for presentations, so I decided to compile some of the best of them in a freebie. If you would like to recommend a favorite tech tool, please fill out this Google Doc form. If your entry is selected, I'll send you a free Mini Pack of your choice worth up to $5.00. Remember that these are tools for creating presentations and not just great educational apps or websites. The deadline for entering is midnight, March 3rd. Thanks!
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Caring Classroom Pinterest Board
Brand New Pinterest Board
I have just created a brand new Pinterest board called Caring Classroom. It's a place where I'll be pinning free resources to foster a caring classroom. For example, I'll pin blog posts with getting to know you games, cooperative learning activities, books dealing with bullying, friendship books, blog posts about teaching diversity, and so on. I'm excited to have a place to collect these resources, and I invite you to follow it and any other of my boards that interest you. You can find all of my Pinterest boards here.
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 Games for Learning the 50 States
Do you teach states and capitals in your curriculum? My most recent blog post on Corkboard Connections focuses on fun activities to review states and capitals. I found a terrific free interactive website to share, and I also created a fun game for learning the states and capitals called Find the States Showdown. You can read about the game in the blog post, or find it on TeachersPayTeachers where you can preview the entire game online.
 If this is an area you test, you can check out the packet of US Regions and Capitals tests that my daughter Wendy put together. She's the artist behind Digital Classroom Clipart, and she put together an awesome packet of tests and answer keys. She also created all of the US maps I used in my Find the Showdown activity and that she used in her tests. You can eve purchase them for your own use. Click to view her US Maps and Tests Combo.
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 Announcing Compass Publishing!
If you've been receiving my newsletter for awhile, you'll know that over the past year or so I published two books in print, Power Reading Workshop and Graphic Organizers for Reading. My publishers are Neil Raphel and Janis Raye of Brigantine Media, and they have just launched a brand new educational division called Compass Publishing! They have almost 2 dozen educational authors on board already. You'll enjoy their blog and their Ask Joyce advice column.
 Weekly Special - Free Download!
This week Compass Publishing is offering an entire historical fiction novel called The Spare Room as a free download! It's the diary of a young girl in the 1840's who's learning about slavery and the underground railroad. The book even comes with a free teaching guide that includes historical background, discussion questions, and activities. Download it from Compass Books now because it's a weekly special and it won't be free forever!
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