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Here are my best tips for teaching students to make nonfiction inferences, a super important skill for upper elementary students.

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Teaching Students To Make Nonfiction Inferences

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This free guide to teaching inference includes checklists, book lists, lesson plans, anchor charts, practice activities, and more!

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The Complete Guide to Teaching Inference

Critical thinking in math helps students learn to analyze and evaluate math concepts, identify patterns and relationships, and explore different strategies.

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How To Encourage Critical Thinking in Math

Teaching regions of the United States has never been so fun! Become tourists to learn about regions in literacy, math, social studies, and science!

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Teaching Regions of the United States: Cross-Curricular Learning Projects

This FREE GUIDE has numerous ways to extend teaching addition and subtraction skills with upper elementary students.

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The Complete Guide to Teaching Addition and Subtraction

April read alouds and related activities to use during morning meeting and your upper elementary literacy block.

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April Read Alouds and Related Seasonal Activities

Improving inference skills is simple with these engaging and unique activities that go beyond just simply reading and answering inference questions.

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Improving Inference Skills

Teaching main idea and theme is a critical reading comprehension skills. These resources will help students discern the difference.

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The Complete Guide to Teaching Main Idea and Theme

Math concept pictures are a fun and engaging way to practice a TON of skills! Students solve math problems and then create a picture based on the answers.

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Math Concept Pictures

These free after spring break lessons include my favorite ways to ease back into learning (while still learning!) on that first day after spring break.

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Free Day After Spring Break Lessons

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I am really focusing on digging into our standards I am really focusing on digging into our standards and asking students to think really critically about characters and other elements in our stories. This is one way I’ve done that — we’re heavily focusing on character motivation and asking ourselves why they do the things they do — both literally and inferred.  Integrating this skill with cause and effect really upped the complexity, but I have been thrilled with all of their thought processing on this activity! 👏
If you want your students totally locked in on a l If you want your students totally locked in on a lesson, THIS is the one. My students have loved reading this book this week, and it has provided amazing points for discussing growth mindset, acceptance, hard work, perseverance, and the list goes on and on and on. 

The main character watches ice dancers on television and — even though they don’t look like her (according to one of the her family members) — she is convinced she can do that very same thing. It’s not easy, and she faces adversity, but she ultimately overcomes with a whole lot of grit and perseverance!

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Love Note Literacy is one of the funniest writing Love Note Literacy is one of the funniest writing assignments I give all year! ❤️💕 😂 We began by reading some funny love notes (pictured), and annotating them to pick out different parts of the writing. Then, students get to write their own silly and creative love letter to hand sanitizer from the perspective of a tissue. 😜😜 We always end up laughing so hard at the letters, and I love seeing their creativity. I’ve been doing this for the last 14 years, and the results are simply 💖 impeccable 💖 every year! 

Drop a comment below, and I’ll send the info your way! It’s SUPER easy to implement!
FREEEE for your classroom tomorrow morning! Commen FREEEE for your classroom tomorrow morning! Comment below, and I’ll send you a link to print this Find Someone Who made especially for tomorrow morning. 🏈 There’s no way around it — all of our kids are going to be talking about the big game, so instead of resisting it, I lean into it and let them get the chatter out of their systems! 🩷💕Whether your students watched the game, ate snacks, enjoyed commercials, or didn’t even know it was on, they’ll love starting their day moving around and chatting with their peers.
It’s almost time for one of my favorite Valentin It’s almost time for one of my favorite Valentine’s Day classroom traditions — Compliment Bags for all of their cards and goodies! 🩷💕 Here’s why I love this so much 👇👇

Truth: I have never been a huge fan of having students bring in their own decorated bags and boxes because inevitably, some are the most elaborate creations you’ve ever seen, while others forget them completely. 😬😬 So, I started using this idea in 2009 after learning about it from my cooperating teacher, and it NEVER gets old. 

✍️ I incorporate it into my writing block in the few days before Valentine’s Day so that students can use excellent vocab and write beautiful sentences to one another then transfer them to the bags on Valentine’s Day!

💖 Comment below, and I’ll send you ALL the details about how I implement this into my classroom, including how I get students to write genuine, specific compliments and which bags I use!

I have been sharing this on my blog and socials since 2011, and every single year, I look forward to seeing all the compliment bags YOUR students make. It truly brings me so much joy!
It’s a big weekend for football lovers!! 🏈 I It’s a big weekend for football lovers!! 🏈 I love using this quick math challenge in the few days before and after the biggest game of the year (even if my team isn’t playing this year 😭😜). Comment below, and I’ll send you this no-prep resource to bring the game into your classroom!
Listen, it’s in my genes, and I’ve just come t Listen, it’s in my genes, and I’ve just come to accept it. 🤷‍♀️
The games are finally coming this week, and I can’t WAIT to start incorporating them into my classroom!! 👏 We just wrapped up ELEVEN new podcasts (over 60 minutes of content) for the classroom focusing on winter sports, and I can’t wait to get started! These are always SUCH a huge hit with my students. 

Comment below, and I’ll send you the info for ALL of my Winter Games plans over the next few weeks!
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