How to teach students to find text evidence
Explore how to teach students to find citing text evidence in 21st Century texts. Use Flocabulary to teach textual evidence examples.
What’s new with Flocabulary Plus: April 2023
Flocabulary Plus has new updates to boost student vocabulary acquisition! Explore our new analytics dashboard for administrators & educators.
What’s new for Flocabulary Plus: January 2023
Explore new updates on Flocabulary! Learn about co-teaching abilities and Nearpod Originals which is now available on Flocabulary Plus.
Five Elements of a Story: Teaching Resources
Teach students about the five story elements: plot, character, setting, conflict, and theme, using these videos and lesson plans.
How to build student connections using music to teach in the classroom
Hip-hop, a cultural movement started by Black and Latinx youth in New York in the early ’70s, is a great launching point for using music to teach. When used as a part of instruction, hip-hop can help to engage students, bring curriculum to life, and reinforce core knowledge and skills, including vocabulary support and reading comprehension. How can music be used in education? Hip-hop pedagogy, essentially applying hip-hop elements to teaching methods, gives students a chance to share their knowledge with other classmates and analyze experiences of their own as well as others’ in a meaningful way. It can act…