Scott Benedict

Sometimes teaching a story with 3 verbs is just too much for your students. That's where one-verb stories come in and are a great way to highlight a particular verb and allow your students to be hyper-focused and acquire that verb more easily.

Exit Tickets are a great form of formative assessment at the end of your daily lesson. I love exit tickets because they give tangible evidence of what students did or learned in class.

Convo Cards are all about scaffolding students' vocabulary during conversations.⁠ The simple Convo Cards combine images, text, and translations to help build confidence in the students' second language.

I don't know about you, but special needs students are some of my favorite students to teach. But finding what works for them can be challenging. Let's talk about different strategies to help make these amazing students more successful!

This is a great, easy-to-play game, perfect for a quick brain break. It's one that my students love to play and request all of the time. I love it because it takes no prep, keeps the students engaged, and is great to practice vocabulary.

Notebooks are an important part of my CI classroom. We use them daily for organization and recording of many of our daily tasks.