This tool will help students transition from using a finger to tracking with their eyes only.

Learn about math notebooks and the importance of establishing respect.

These three simple considerations will help you decide what is and isn't still worthy of being in your classroom library. 

In order to assist with student independence and increase organization and efficiency during math time, Allison Behne has put together math binders for her students. Each game board students might use during the math block is included in one convenient binder. 

This video shows Pam outlining with her students the Math Notebook, its purpose and components.

Here is a clever craft idea that will end "I Can't Find A Pencil" laments forever.  

Tips for end-of-the-year library clean up. 

The only thing we love more than a beautiful conferring notebook is a beautiful clipboard for checking in with student choices. 

A few tips to break it down, and make it less overwhelming.

Want your classroom library to be the heart of your room? These six steps will help. 

Download these checkmarks to support your students with the comprehension strategy Check for Understanding.

Provide students with this tool and they'll be able to choose books that fit them perfectly. 

Try this easy way to prepare your classroom library for a new school year before summer even begins. 

Regularly writing in a journal can help students monitor their understanding of mathematical concepts.

If your students use composition notebooks for writing, here is a clever idea that keeps a pen or pencil handy. 

Whether you travel from room to room or from student to student in your own classroom, you need certain tools at your fingertips. 

These how-to videos take you from start to implementation of responding to reading. 

There are many options for providing each student with a personal-sized, dry erase board. See if one of these will work for you. 

Take a look at this online tool produced by UFLI. It is a free application that can be used by your students as they build and manipulate words. 

Principal, Jon Konen, shares five ways to allocate more money for classrooms implementing Daily 5.

Peek inside Janet Scott's K-2 Intervention Room with Janet and Gail Boushey to see how it's set up and reflect on possible improvements.

What do they look like? Answers inside.

Do I really need a robust classroom library? The answer is yes! Read on to find out the why.

Choose the ones you like best, print them out, hand them up, and be ready for PATH instruction.

Check out these inexpensive ideas to provide math manipulatives to students.  

Pam Pogson's students are accustomed to using math manipulatives to solve problems. In this video, she challenges them to use these math tools to help prove their mathematical thinking as well.

Do you need some books or magazines to read? Try out some of these online resources.

Conferring forms hold valuable information, but managing the papers can be a bit of a challenge.

Consider these options when looking for your perfect book containers.

These 10 tools that will help your mathematicians grow.

This tool kit is a great option when you have more students than you do tools or space.

Here are some clever way to prepare for a new school year.

Carlene has amazing book boxes!

This lesson will help everyone learn to handle books with respect, and know what to do if they find a damaged book. 

Here is the why behind this math area and one way to store math materials.

Check out these math tool kits and stay for the last minute of the video to learn an important metacognitive strategy called Hand on Your Head.

Give your students a glimpse into your reading life by building and sharing the contents of your book box. Get one or more colleagues on board and see what happens!

Personalized book boxes become a treasure that students will value for years to come.  

The tools/manipulatives required for Math Daily 3 will differ depending on the concepts you cover during the year. We have found three primary ways of organizing math tools to be successful.

Here is a great idea for keeping notebooks organized and functional. 

Here are three ideas to get your students going with their reading response journals.

Word Work is even more fun when you can write right on the table.