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Top 10 Tips for Building Reading Fluency
We have all heard about the shift that happens, usually between second and third grade, when students (should) go from learning to read to reading to learn. Unfortunately, for some students, their ability to read to learn is stifled by…
Dividing Fractions Anchor Chart, Game Freebie, and Math Journal
We tackled dividing fractions this week! I was a little bit apprehensive about it since these are wee little fourth graders working on this tough stuff, but they did GREAT! Although I follow the CCSS, I thought it was a…
Perimeter and Area
We finished our perimeter and area unit several weeks ago (right before fractions!), but I never got around to posting some of the engaging activities we did. This was really a review for my kids, so it was fun to…
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Independent Reading Response Anchor Charts
I’m excited to share these anchor charts with you! We have been using these for quite some time now, and my students are becoming pros. A lot of the time, I do have students answering specific questions, but depending on…
Engaging Lessons for Multiplying Fractions
Teaching Multiplying Fractions in 5th Grade We finished adding and subtracting fractions right before the break, and now we are moving on to multiplying and dividing fractions. We began with multiplying fractions, and we created a mega-anchor chart. I teach…
After Break Activity: Learning Never Takes a Break!
Looking for an engaging after break activity to get brains going again? When I ask kids what they did over spring break, I so often hear “nothing.” Horse Hockey! Even if you didn’t go on an extravagant vacation, you most…
Novel Preview Quick Write
We began our new (and maybe last of the year) Novel today. I am so thrilled to share My Side of the Mountain with my students. My students were also very excited to read it…we have been keeping a theme…
SALE and TpT GIFT CERTIFICATE Giveaway!
First of all–thank you all SO much for your support of Task Card Corner! I am so excited about my new endeavor there, and I am already positively giddy over the positive responses I have had. To celebrate the beginning…
Task Card Test Prep & Announcement!
Hi there! First thing is first: IT’S SPRING BREAK over at Casa de Mountain View! I had big plans for pumping out some TpT goodies, and I have two massive blog posts in the works, but my sweet girls have…
Tell Me a Story Tuesday: Figurative Language
We’re back! This week’s Tell Me a Story Tuesday was a quick one, and went along with our current focus: Figurative Language! We have been focusing on finding figurative language in our reading and also generating some new figurative language….
Our Latest Fraction Projects!
In all of our spare time in between testing, we have been doing a few fun fraction projects that I thought I would share. The first one was to review adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators. Most of my…
Error Analysis for Enrichment and Critical Thinking
This year, working with a wide variety of students, many needing either extra help or extra enrichment and extensions, I have been doing a lot of reading about all different levels of need. One of my absolute FAVORITE ideas for…
