Skip to content

Ready to learn something new? We can help!

FREE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPTIONS
  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Facebook Group
  • Free Resource Library
Search
Shop Now
Teaching with a Mountain View

Literacy

Grammar

Novels & Picture Books

Novels & Picture Books

Math

Anchor Charts

Anchor Charts

Classroom

Classroom

Teaching with a Mountain View

The Blog

Download free Skill of the Day weeks for spiral review in reading, math, and language from Teaching with a Mountain View.
Back to School | Free | Literacy | Math | Seasonal

FREE Skill of the Day Week

Skill of the Day is my favorite resource I’ve ever created. Now you can download a free skill of the day week for each subject! Skill of the Day Difference What makes this different than most other spiral reviews? I…
READ POST FREE Skill of the Day Week
Math flip books are mini anchor charts, reference books, and practice activities as great alternatives to interactive notebooks.
Math

Math Flip Books: An Engaging Way to Teach Key Math Skills

It’s no secret that I love using math anchor charts to introduce new concepts and hold our learning throughout each unit. They also serve as valuable reference charts throughout the year, but it can be difficult to find space to…
READ POST Math Flip Books: An Engaging Way to Teach Key Math Skills
Book recommendations and related activities for the best morning meeting read alouds in upper elementary.
Literacy | Book Recommendations | Morning Meeting | Picture Books

10 Morning Meeting Read Aloud Activities

Anyone else a picture book collector? I love accumulating picture books to use in my classroom, and I love using them for my morning meeting read alouds. Using picture books during morning meeting provides a great opportunity to build relationships…
READ POST 10 Morning Meeting Read Aloud Activities
If you are scratching your head wondering how you can best utilize your classroom parent volunteers, here is your guide!
The Parent Connection | Back to School | Building Community | Classroom | New Teachers | Seasonal

How to BEST Utilize Your Classroom Parent Volunteers

I have always been fortunate to work at schools where parents want to volunteer! I was tickled pink that I had so many classroom parent volunteers who wanted to join, but I also wanted to make sure I was using…
READ POST How to BEST Utilize Your Classroom Parent Volunteers
Math tips and activities to start the year strong in upper elementary. Includes ideas for morning work, centers, and review.
Back to School | Free | Math | Seasonal

Math Tips To Start The Year Strong

Last week I shared literacy tips and ideas to help you start the new school year strong, so today I’m sharing similar math tips. I find that a little bit of prep and planning now saves me so much time…
READ POST Math Tips To Start The Year Strong
Literacy tips and activities to start the year strong in upper elementary. Includes ideas for morning work, centers, and review.
Back to School | Free | Literacy | Seasonal

Literacy Tips To Start The Year Strong

Each summer I spend time reflecting on the previous year and thinking about changes I’ll make when back to school time rolls around again. Of course I spend a lot of time relaxing and enjoying summer break, but I personally…
READ POST Literacy Tips To Start The Year Strong
This ultimate list of professional development books for teachers has something for every need, from management to curriculum!
Teacher Ideas | Professional Development

Professional Development Books for Teachers

Looking for a summer reading list of professional development books for teachers? Maybe you are looking for some new teaching ideas or need a crash course in classroom management. Or you might want to hear some inspiring tales to remind…
READ POST Professional Development Books for Teachers
Upper elementary language skill activities to teach conjunctions, interjections, articles, and prepositions. Download a FREE reference guide.
Grammar | Anchor Charts | Literacy | Literacy Anchor Charts

Language Skill Activities: How to Teach Conjunctions, Interjections, Articles, and Prepositions

Will you think I’m a huge nerd if I tell you how much I love teaching language skills to my upper elementary students?! Language skills and rules for conjunctions, interjections, articles, and prepositional phrases are the “math” behind writing. Teaching…
READ POST Language Skill Activities: How to Teach Conjunctions, Interjections, Articles, and Prepositions
Amazing reading skill videos to teach key upper elementary reading skills. Includes activity ideas for each video and related resource too.
Reading Skills | Literacy

Amazing Reading Skill Videos

Sometimes the best way to review or practice reading skills is through video. That might sound a little counterintuitive, but when we are helping our students master reading skills it can be helpful to make connections between those skills and…
READ POST Amazing Reading Skill Videos
Graphic novels are important tools to use in the upper elementary classroom. Includes recommended graphic novel lists and activities.
Literacy | Book Recommendations

Graphic Novel Lists for Upper Elementary

It always seems like the graphic novel shelf in my elementary classroom is empty because my students are avid readers of this genre. It’s easy to see why students love them… graphic novels are fun, engaging, and often make reading…
READ POST Graphic Novel Lists for Upper Elementary
These Amazon classroom favorites for teachers and students will make your teacher life easier and more organized!
Classroom | Back to School | Seasonal

Amazon Classroom Favorites

It’s no secret that a love of school supplies is one major requirement for becoming a teacher, so the question of must-have items for upper elementary always leads to great answers in our FREE Inspired In Upper Elementary Facebook group….
READ POST Amazon Classroom Favorites
Comparing and contrasting texts, characters, themes, and literary elements takes critical thinking and is key to reading comprehension.
Literacy | Comprehension | Reading Skills

Comparing and Contrasting Texts: Why it’s Important and How to Teach It

If you think of comparing and contrasting as looking for differences between an apple and an orange, it seems like a pretty easy skill! In fact, that’s exactly how I teach students about the essential skill of comparing and contrasting….
READ POST Comparing and Contrasting Texts: Why it’s Important and How to Teach It

Posts pagination

Previous Page 1 … 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 … 33 Next Page

hey there!

I’m Mary

Welcome to my blog! I started blogging in 2011 and have amassed hundreds of posts full of engaging, research-based, and classroom-tested teaching ideas. Enjoy exploring!

Learn More

SEARCH

GET SOCIAL

  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Facebook

TOPICS

  • Anchor Charts
    • Literacy Anchor Charts
    • Math Anchor ChartsMath anchor charts
  • Classroom
    • Building Community
    • Morning Meeting
    • The Parent Connection
    • Classroom Management
    • Classroom Organization
    • Flexible Seating
    • Conferences
    • Critical Thinking
    • Distance Learning
    • Homework
    • Intervention
    • Teacher Ideas
    • Test Prep
    • Classroom Pictures
  • Free
  • Literacy
    • Comprehension
    • Fluency
    • Grammar
    • Informational Texts
    • Reading Skills
    • Using Pictures to Teach
  • Writing
  • Math
    • Decimals
    • Elapsed Time
    • Fractions
    • Geometry & Measurement
    • Multiplication
    • Place Value
  • Novels & Picture Books
    • Novel Study
    • Picture Books
  • Projects
  • Seasonal
    • Back to School
    • End of the Year
    • Holidays
    • Titanic
  • Task Cards

FREE Prefix, Suffix, and Root Activities!

Are you implementing word study into your classroom? Grab our FREE Word Study Starter Kit, and you’ll be on your way!

FEATURED RESOURCES

  • Giggles and Grammar | Upper Elementary Grammar Program
    $76.99
    Add to cartLoading Done
  • 3rd Grade Spiral Math Review | Math Skill of the Day
    $19.99
    Add to cartLoading Done

There are two questions I always get from parents: There are two questions I always get from parents: 1️⃣”What should I work on with them over the summer?” and 2️⃣ “What books do you recommend for my child?” 💥 So, I put together a FREE resource for you to send home to help parents support their kids over the summer! 

🛑 It’s not a big printable packet or workbook full of worksheets — instead, it has book lists, skill lists, and even quick activity suggestions to help guide parents over the summer! 

Comment below, and I’ll send you the link to download it! 💕❤️
Comment below, and I’ll send you a link to the F Comment below, and I’ll send you a link to the FREE assignment sheet and more info! 🌟 🌟 

Just say noooo to those end of book tests and packets of endless comprehension questions. Say “YES” to super fun cumulative novel projects. 🤗 I’ve been doing this one — where kids create an Amazon listing for their book — for YEARS, and it never gets old!
We end our school year the same way we started it, We end our school year the same way we started it, and it always warms my heart to see how far we’ve come. 💕❤️🥰 I’ve adapted Find Someone Who to have an end of the year twist, and it’s a really special, sweet way to see kids come together for a few minutes at the end of the year! 

It’s FREE and no prep! Just drop a comment below, and I’ll send it to you. 💕❤️
I LOVE planning for the end of the year. Comment “Last Week!” below, and I’ll send you all the links! 💕

I’m a big believer in keeping our schedule as consistent as possible and continuing to have high expectations while also embracing the fun and celebration that comes with the end of the school year! Each of these activities accomplishes just that — total engagement but consistency right until the very end! ☀️
It’s time! ☀️ Over the last 16 years, I’ve It’s time! ☀️ Over the last 16 years, I’ve perfected my lesson plans for the last two weeks of school. Comment PLANS below, and I’ll send them to you and help simplify your end of the year planning!
🚨 It is Teacher Care Week here at Teaching With 🚨 It is Teacher Care Week here at Teaching With a Mountain View! Baking cookies is one of my favorite ways to calm the chaos after a busy day in the classroom. 🥰 Since I can’t bake any for you, I’d love to send five of you a gift card to your favorite treat location! 

💕💕 Comment below with your favorite treat to see in the teacher’s lounge, and I’ll automatically enter you AND send you an exclusive FREE resource to use with your students!
This is one the BEST traditions my previous school This is one the BEST traditions my previous school had, and I include it in my FREE Last Week of School Lesson plans! 

It was inspired by a segment on GMA, and the students each wrote three words to describe their year. We would take pictures of the students with their words and put together a huge school-wide slide show on the last day of school to showcase our words.⁣ I still LOVE doing it with students and making it into a collaborative chart!
⁣
➡  So tell me... what would YOUR three words be to describe this year? 😂 Comment below, and I’ll send you my FREE lesson plans for the last week of school!
My students have been BEGGING for more of this boo My students have been BEGGING for more of this book and the activity that goes with it!! They are GLUED to the tales and love trying to interpret them. 

Comment below, and I’ll send you a link to the book! 📪 📕 

Each of these ten word tales is sliiiiiightly unsettling and unusual and REALLY makes kids think through the possibilities! I shared several with my students, and they were obsessed with them! 

Then, I had them write their own 10 word tales (harder than it seems!). Since the illustrations add so much to the story, I had the kids SWITCH tales and illustrate their partner’s tales. They LOVED this part and seeing how their meaning was interpreted by their illustrator!

They begged so much to do this again that I obliged, and that STILL wasn’t enough! 😂

Disclaimer: Some of the tales really are odd and a little unsettling, so preview them ahead of time — I recommend this one for the older (3rd grade+) crowd! 💕
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest

Links

  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Facebook Group
  • Free Resource Library
  • Privacy Policy & Disclosures

Topics

  • Literacy
  • Math
  • Grammar
  • Anchor Charts
  • Classroom
  • Novels and Picture books

Shop

  • Shop Website
  • Shop Amazon
  • Wishlist
  • My Account
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Terms & Conditions

©2023 Teaching With a Mountain View . All Rights Reserved | Designed by Ashley Hughes

Lost your password?

Review Cart

No products in the cart.

🍪 Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}
Scroll to top
Search
  • Home
  • Get Inspired
  • About
    • Contact
  • Blog
  • Free Resource Library
  • My Account
Shop Now

Literacy

Grammar

Novels & Picture Books

Novels & Picture Books

Math

Anchor Charts

Anchor Charts

Classroom

Classroom

Facebook X Instagram
Search