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Must-read professional development books for teachers recommended by current classroom teachers, links to free resources to help you grow as an educator, and practical classroom tips.

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Brush Up on Your Teacher Skills: Must-Read Professional Development Books for Teachers (and More!)

Download lists with the best upper elementary books and free printable bookmarks with reading response questions to share with families throughout the year.

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The Best Upper Elementary Books and Free Printable Bookmarks

Register for 8 weeks of FREE professional development. The weekly tips will leave you better prepared to teach 8 key upper elementary reading and math skills.

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8 Weeks of Free Professional Development for Teachers

You can use this FREE resource to help cover all of key standards when teaching point of view and perspective in upper elementary.

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The Complete Guide to Teaching Point of View and Perspective

Teaching multiplication and division is simple with these FREE lessons, anchor charts, books, and differentiated activities.

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The Complete Guide to Teaching Multiplication and Division

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

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

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

This FREE context clues guide includes a ton of ideas, context clues lessons, essential skills, book list, free activities, and more!

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The Complete Guide to Teaching Math Vocabulary

This FREE context clues guide includes a ton of ideas, context clues lessons, essential skills, book list, free activities, and more!

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The Complete Guide to Context Clues Lessons

This FREE place value guide includes a ton of ideas, place value lessons, essential skills, book list, free activities, and more!

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The Complete Guide to Place Value Lessons

This ultimate list of professional development books for teachers has something for every need, from management to curriculum!

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Enjoy some pictures of just a few of the ✨ blank Enjoy some pictures of just a few of the ✨ blank ✨ walls in my classroom at the beginning of the year. They’re ready for student work, collaboratively develops anchor charts, and other student guided and created materials! This is your gentle reminder that reference material that is up on the walls should be explicitly introduced, taught and regularly referenced — Less is definitely more to start the year!! The mere presence of word walls, anchor charts, etc. doesn’t equal learning or retention. 😉🩷
FREE! ✨ 🧡 I love incorporating a variety of f FREE! ✨ 🧡 I love incorporating a variety of fun critical and creative thinking games into my classroom, and back to school is a great time to start! I compiled my favorites and gave a bunch of prompts to make it super easy to implement this year. 💥 Comment below, and I’ll send it to you!
Meet the teacher!! 🩷🩷🩷I love this night, Meet the teacher!! 🩷🩷🩷I love this night, the excitement it brings, and the smiling facing of excited kids! It’s my last year that I’ll have my daughter, too. 🥹 Let’s do this. 👏
Do any of these books catch your eye?? 👀 Old fa Do any of these books catch your eye?? 👀 Old favorites? 🤗 New to you books? 💥 I am a firm believer that books are the best decor in ANY classroom, and I am OBSESSED with building book collections to help teach units in my classroom! Drop a comment below, and I’ll send you a link to read all about how I create learning units out of picture books! 👏 

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📚 A new school year can bring some big emotions 📚 A new school year can bring some big emotions — and teachable moments, too! 💕❤️🩷 I have gathered some of my favorite books to incorporate into morning meeting and use as a model for these important skills. These read-alouds are PERFECT for those first weeks of school when you’re building your classroom community and helping students name, navigate, and normalize their feelings.

✨ I have also created book companions to go with several of these beautiful books! 📪 Drop a comment below, and I’ll send you info about the companions and a link to all the books in one spot. 

Which one would YOU start with? 📚👇

🩷My Secret Bully: Not all bullying is loud and obvious! This story helps students spot the quiet, hidden kind and build a kinder classroom.

🪴 The Rough Patch: Change can feel hard, but this gentle read shows how new beginnings can grow from challenging moments.

🍁 Sweep: A perfect reminder for the start of the year: don’t let little frustrations pile up into something big!

😳 The Whatifs: Turn those first day “what ifs” into excitement instead of worry! 

🌱 Sprout Branches Out: A sweet way to encourage students to try something new, even if it feels a little scary.

😌 Clovis Keeps His Cool: A relatable lesson in staying calm when things don’t go your way.

🐉 Dragons on the Inside: Big feelings can feel like dragons—this book helps kids name them and take control.

🧠 Invisible Things: Help students notice and talk about the feelings we can’t see but can definitely feel.

🌪️ I Am a Tornado: A lively reminder that our moods and actions can sweep others up, and it’s better to use our energy for good!
Year five in this space, and after a few days of P Year five in this space, and after a few days of PD mixed in with sporadic time for classroom set up, it’s starting to feel like my home away from home again. 💕 

Is it perfect? Nope. Is it a space that brings me and my students joy? Yep. Does a lot of learning and laughter happen in this space? So much. 🥹

That’s it. That’s what matters.
I will NEVER get over the fact that thousand of st I will NEVER get over the fact that thousand of students use these resources every day. 😭

🚨 🔔 Drop a comment below, and I’ll send you all the info, including FREE weeks of each! 

I started creating these resources when I couldn’t find anything that fit my needs. Most spiral reviews focused on WAY too many skills at a time and my students needed time to review very specific skills. While my goal is always to immerse my students in authentic texts and tasks, I found that starting every single day with a quick skill review to keep content-specific terms fresh in their minds and well practiced was a GAME CHANGER! ✍️ 📖 

 Whether you use the journal format, digital version, or full-page version, it’s accessible and available for grades 2-3 or 4-5 (which offers great options for differentiation!). 🤩

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Grab yours FREE and implement it during one of you Grab yours FREE and implement it during one of your first few days of school! 💕📕 Comment below, and I will send it your way.

By getting kids up and moving from the very first moment, you have an opportunity to authentically teach routines and expectations, AND they have a chance to shake some of their  first day jitters out. As a bonus, they’ll start to learn so much about each other and feel the warmth and community of your classroom. ❤️
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