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5 classroom tips for enrichment and differentiation for gifted learners, which is just as important as accommodations for struggling learners.
Gifted Learners

Differentiating and Meeting the Needs of Gifted Learners

We often have meetings and professional development about helping struggling learners, but I’ve found that it’s rare to talk about…
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Here are numerous ways to teach and reinforce factors and multiples, as well as math facts, in 4th and 5th grade
Multiplication | Free | Math

Factors, Multiples, and Math Facts… oh my!

Working with factors and multiples is an important upper elementary skill that helps students solidify number relationships. However, it isn’t…
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Learn how to use podcasts in the classroom to challenge students' listening skills, and integrate content related skills too.
Literacy | Classroom

Incorporating Podcasts in the Classroom

Have you ever wondered how you could bring podcasts into your classroom? Using podcasts in the classroom has gained popularity…
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The best teacher hacks, classroom organization tips, classroom systems, and classroom management strategies from upper elementary teachers.
Classroom | Back to School | Classroom Management | Classroom Organization | Seasonal

The Ultimate List of Teacher Hacks

After you’ve been in the classroom for a few years, you pick up teacher hacks and strategies for classroom management…
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Learn how to integrate daily grammar practice into your routines to save valuable time and strengthen grammar skills too.
Grammar | Literacy

6 Ways To Integrate Daily Grammar Practice Into Your Routines

Grammar. It’s a part of English whether you love it or hate it (I’m a love it kind of girl!…
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Spelling strategy is an important part of upper elementary literacy instruction. Read tips and download resources for 4 key strategies.
Literacy

4 Spelling Strategy Tips for Upper Elementary

Teaching spelling to upper elementary students can be somewhat of a head scratcher. When I was in school, we were…
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Learn how to use literacy centers in upper elementary for engagement and differentiation. Increase independence and collaboration too!
Literacy

Tips for Using Literacy Centers in Upper Elementary

Reading centers, literacy centers, reading stations… whatever your school calls them, they are often overlooked tools in the upper elementary…
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Teaching punctuation in upper elementary involves advanced topics like quotation marks, dialogue, and apostrophes. Learn how to make it fun!
Grammar | Anchor Charts | Literacy | Literacy Anchor Charts

Activities for Teaching Punctuation: Quotation Marks, Dialogue, and Apostrophes

Students who don’t use punctuation often miss the point. Get it?? That’s a lame joke, but it speaks to our…
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Learn how to organize student supplies on the first day of school and keep them organized all year long too.
Classroom Organization | Back to School | Classroom | Seasonal

How To Organize Student Supplies

There’s just something about back to school time that makes my heart so happy! In the weeks leading up to…
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Upper elementary classroom management tips. Put these essential routines in place NOW for success all year.
Classroom Management | Back to School | Classroom | Seasonal

Classroom Management Tips: Essential Daily Routines

As you begin thinking about back to school, it’s likely that classroom routines and classroom management tips have been teaching…
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Back to school read alouds are a great way to build community, get to know your students, and discuss important topics for the year.
Back to School | Book Recommendations | Literacy | Seasonal

A Complete List of Back to School Read Alouds

Back to school is a time filled with lots of emotions – anxiety and excitement included! (And I’m not just…
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Informational Texts | Literacy

Teaching Informational Text Skills

I am always searching for engaging informational texts to get my students and children excited about reading. About two years…
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Students absolutely love refining their elapsed time skills with this game, and they learn so much at the same time. I always try to do this lesson while I teach context clues so that we can do the Context Clues Travel Trek at the same time. Super easy mini transformation and SO much meaningful skill practice! This is FREE on the blog in both a digital and printable around the room version. 

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I know I talk about our weekly letters a lot, but I know I talk about our weekly letters a lot, but they are a teaching highlight for me. 💖 This week, one of my students wrote about loving to create comics, so I immediately added that to my list of things to incorporate this year! 

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💭 It’s not too late to make a beautiful yearl 💭 It’s not too late to make a beautiful yearlong bulletin board that really makes your students think AND provides real world relevance and connection!!
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I’ve done this for the last few years and just LOVE seeing what my students come up with! Each student decides on something they want to be when they grow up OR something they want to do (play soccer, learn piano, master the new level XYZ video game). 

Then, they have to brainstorm several ways math and/or reading will be part of that and write it on their quote bubble. I hang their picture up with it on the bulletin board, and throughout the year, they can add to the MATH MATTERS board with other ideas about how they use math in their everyday life. 💡 I LOVE seeing their ideas and how they grow throughout the year!

Swipe all the way through to see a beautiful Reading Matters version of the bulletin board! ❤️
Let’s talk MORNING MEETING! ❤️❤️ Do you Let’s talk MORNING MEETING! ❤️❤️ Do you have a favorite book you use during it?! It’s my favorite time of day, and my students know they are almost always going to hear an excellent picture book during our time together. 

💖 Swipe to see 8 of the books I’m using to start the year!

I use these books to help teach crucial social and personal skills and develop a classroom community and teamwork! 

I am super intentional with how I use these books to support our personal and classroom goals, so this year, we’re developing specific, research-based lessons to go along with them. 

💥 Drop a comment below, and I’ll send you a link to MORE morning meeting book lists and these lessons! ❤️
This is your reminder that your notebook entries d This is your reminder that your notebook entries don’t need to be elaborate, but you should be teaching your students to form compound sentences. 😉 Swipe to see some of my favorite (but easy to implement) coordinating conjunction lessons!

✍️Notebooks: When I taught coordinating conjunctions, my students made their own notes pages in their writing journals. I printed out my coordinating conjunctions task cards in mini format (16 to a page!) to glue in as examples. The entire left side is covered in task cards for practice. 

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✍️Activity: Students use sentence strips and elbow noodles to form compound sentences. Always a hit!
Adding this to my MUST-DO lessons from here on out Adding this to my MUST-DO lessons from here on out! 💖 We read One Word for Kids, and each of my students determined what their word for the year would be. We talked about how their words can apply to situations both at home and at school and how they will serve as a guide for each student throughout the year. 

As a reminder of their word (and because Taylor Swift is still on my mind 😍), each student made a bracelet with their word. They LOVED this, and I’ve loved seeing them wearing their bracelets as a reminder of their goal for the year. 

Want a link to the book and the beads I used? Drop a comment below, and I’ll send it your way. ❤️💖
Are you teaching place value right now? Me too! 🤗 That means it’s time for my most popular math project EVER! 🕵️‍♂️ Save this post and drop the word “YES” below, and I’ll send you a link!

✨ Each student gets a TOP SECRET folder (I fold large construction paper in half and glue the label on!), and we play Mission Impossible Music. I bought a “confidential” stamp years ago, and I DRAMATICALLY stamp each completed page with it. Then, students track their progress with fingerprints on the tracking chart. Add some inexpensive magnifying glasses… the engagement is truly off the charts! 

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