We spent a few days before state testing doing some quick review activities for answering fiction comprehension questions. We had…
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Figurative Language Review
I have been trying to write this post for two weeks now! Between home, school and a few new products…
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Anchor Chart Storage Solutions
Happy Sunday, and welcome to another month of Bright Ideas! I am teaming up with Shelly at Teaching in the…
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Teaching Point of View
I absolutely love teaching point of view! We have been busy working on point of view, and most specifically, on…
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Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting Texts
We are SO close to being done with our nonfiction unit, and I’m looking forward to jumping back in to…
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Nonfiction Summaries
I’m popping in to share an activity I did to get kids thinking about summarizing nonfiction texts. I got this…
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Making Sense of Multiplying & Dividing Fractions Word Problems
If you teach the upper grades, you likely know how maddening it is to try to teach your students the…
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Informational Text Structures
I have spent the past week working on Informational Text Structures with my 5th graders. I was shocked to discover…
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Percents, Decimals, Fractions and a Freebie!
Before we left for wonderful winter break (and, oh, how wonderful it was), we spent a week focusing on percentages…
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Scientific Notation Anchor Chart
Just popping in to share my scientific notation anchor chart! We only spent about a day and a half on…
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This and That!
This post is going to be all over the place! There is a little bit of 6th grade math, a…
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Dividing Decimals Anchor Charts
Just a quick post to share my dividing decimals anchor charts. I searched and searched for one already out there…
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