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These free after spring break lessons include my favorite ways to ease back into learning (while still learning!) on that first day after spring break.

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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

These strategies, tips, and resources for student engagement are a must to increase student engagement and motivation in upper elementary.

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Tips for Increasing Student Engagement and Motivation

Here are numerous ways to teach and reinforce factors and multiples, as well as math facts, in 4th and 5th grade

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Factors, Multiples, and Math Facts… oh my!

Download free Skill of the Day weeks for spiral review in reading, math, and language from Teaching with a Mountain View.

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Math tips and activities to start the year strong in upper elementary. Includes ideas for morning work, centers, and review.

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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.

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Literacy Tips To Start The Year Strong

Anchor chart, hands-on practice activities, and a free assessment for teaching mean, median, and mode in upper elementary.

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Activities For Teaching Mean, Median, and Mode

This post includes an anchor chart and practice activities for teaching adjectives and adverbs in upper elementary.

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Teaching Adjectives and Adverbs

Learn to play this Jeopardy-style whole class review game. It works with any task cards and is easy to set up too!

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Task Card Whole Class Review Game

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