You have your great new Learning Resources product. You have some great activities to put them to use. You're all set right? Wait there's more! Here you can find general tips for your classroom, reading games, ELL students and more! Each section has ten different tips written by teachers for teachers.

10 Tips for Making Science Cross-Curricular
1. Science is the perfect vehicle to teach writing. Science Journals build daily practice and encourage descriptive as well as expository skills, like compare and contrast, process, and cause and effect. More...

10 Tips for Using Reading Games in the Classroom
1. Challenge that student who always finishes in-class assignments first. Have him or her race through the 6 different word puzzles of Alphaball Electronic Word Game while other students are completing assignments. Perfect for solo or paired play, each activity is a word-recognition and spelling test disguised as an arcade game. Irresistible! More...

10 Easy Tips to Help ELLs Tune Into Learning
1. Songs and chants open the door to reading because they offer a risk-free way to play with language sounds and give students a sense of rhythm, so important for fluency. Get the whole class involved by tuning into the Beginning Phonics CD Big Book for ELLs, or the Intermediate Phonics CD Big Book for ELLs. When you begin, use the Hand Pointer to keep everyone at the same pace and focused on the appropriate words on the Big Book page. As fluency increases students won't need to rely on this tool as much, but you can still use it to hold your place. More...

10 Tips to Organize Classroom for Maximum Efficiency
1. Label the pockets of the Organization Station with each childs name, and right away they'll know where to turn in homework, collect handouts, or correspond with you (and each other!). Ask students to write their own goals at the beginning of each unit or quarter. Then, return their goals after the final test. More...