The Curriculum Corner’s Top 10 of 2018
It’s hard to believe we are wrapping up another year at The Curriculum Corner.
It’s been a busy year! We’ve created and shared over 150 new resources this year.
The highlight of our year was traveling to Orlando and presenting on Writer’s Workshop at NAESP.
Of course, we also squeezed in a little time to visit with Mickey and his friends.
In case you are new to The Curriculum Corner, Jill and Cathy are two teachers from Fishers, Indiana. After more than 30 years of teaching between the two of us, we began The Curriculum Corner. Our goal was to provide a place where teachers can go to find free resources for their classrooms based on best practice.
What began as a hobby has turned into a collection of three sites where teachers can find resources for early learning (The Kinder Corner), grades 1 -3 (The Curriculum Corner 123) and grades 4 – 6 (The Curriculum Corner 456).
Below we have gathered our 10 most popular posts for 2018. At the very bottom, we are adding in the links to some of our all time most popular posts.
The Curriculum Corner’s Top 10 of 2018
1.Planning a Dynamic Writing Workshop
(You will find organizational materials, conferencing resources and complete writing units of study.)
2. October Collection
(This post contains links to all of our seasonal resources for October – we have one of these collections for each month on our site.)
3. Did You Know Facts for Fall
(We are adding one of these posts for each season – the future collections will be exclusive to our newsletter subscribers. You can follow this link to subscribe: Subscribe to Our Newsletter)
4. 4th Grade Summer Math Practice Booklet
(We have these for other grade levels as well.)
5. Monthly Bell Ringer Collection
(This set is for 4th – 6th grades but we have sets on The Curriculum Corner 123 for primary grades.)
6. Writing Strategies Menu
(Use these to help when you are looking for ways to help individual students with writing workshop skills.)
7. Easter Sentence Mats
(This particular set was very popular this year but we have many other themes available on The Curriculum Corner.)
8. Fall Addition Bump Games
(We’ve worked on adding more seasonal basic fact games this year, you will also find many other themes of Bump! games along with color key math and countless other engaging fact practice resources.)
9. Monthly Printable Journals
(We have created 12 writing journals, one for each month. You will be able to choose the pages that work for your students from the large assortment.)
10. April Bell Ringers for Primary Grades
(Unlike our more opened sets for older grades, these contain multiple choice type questions.)
As we mentioned before, some of our oldies continue to be our most popular resources. Some have been given a fresh look since their original publishing but these are the resources that people return to over and over.
- Our editable teacher planning binder was our first big hit. Today it continues to be one of our most popular resources. You will find it HERE
- Our editable student data tracking binder is what you need to help your students set goals and track their progress. You will find it HERE
- Our small group toolkit is designed to help you create teacher directed literacy instruction in small groups. You will find it HERE
- Our close reading collection contains a range of resources to help you learn more about and implement close reading practices in your classroom. You will find it HERE