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Eye on Curriculum: Teaching Extras
Teaching Extras Welcome back, May! We hope that everyone is enjoying the bloom of flowers and the warm weather that we’ve all been patiently waiting

Special Needs Focus: Math Skills for Everyday Living
Math is all around us! In order to lead an independent life, we need to use a variety of math concepts. That is one of

Common Core Math: Fractions, Measurement & Data, and Geometry
During this Mathematics Awareness Month, we have explored a number of different activities in our Eye on Curriculum series, from general teaching resources to preschool

How to Search for Common Core Materials on abcteach
Since the wide-spread adoption of Common Core Standards across the U.S., abcteach has been creating materials, and tagging existing ones, to help educators and students

PTA/PTO Corner: Activity Planners for Parents
The following blog is one of the featured articles from our newest online publication, the abcteach Quarterly Digest. This quarterly member newsletter highlights creative teaching

Homeschool Spotlight: Getting Real with Math
What math teacher has not been faced with the common student question, “How is this useful in the real world?” Math standards stress the need

Spring Math Activities for Preschoolers
The following article comes from our friends at The Preschool Toolbox. Co-founder, Darla Hutson, shares the step-by-step process on how to make fun spring math activities

Eye on Curriculum: Mathematics Month
Welcome back, April! The start of each new month means the start of a new Eye on Curriculum blog series. Each year, the Joint Policy

Reading Month Activities: Play Together, Read Together
What do you feel when you hear the word ‘read?’ Are you an avid bookworm or an occasional browser? Have you always been this way?

Developing Language Skills in Early Childhood
The following article comes from abcteach friend and colleague, Shara Lawrence-Weiss. An educator, business owner, and dedicated mom, Shara provides us tangible examples on how

Eye on Curriculum: Language Arts
Welcome to the latest segment in our Eye on Curriculum series. In honor of Reading Awareness Month, the March topic is Language Arts. As we

Eye on Curriculum: Common Core, Math Skills
Our last Eye on Curriculum blogs reviewed a few of the domains in the Common Core Standards’ English Language Arts (ELA) Reading section. Our first