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Teaching and analyzing story elements is a critical comprehension skill. Includes ideas for a deeper understanding in upper elementary.

Beyond Story Elements: Encouraging your students to think critically about elements of the text

Analyzing Text Features in Upper Elementary

Tips for organizing your upper elementary literacy block. Includes daily routines, whole group lessons, and literacy rotations.

How I Organize My Literacy Block

teaching domain specific vocabulary upper elementary

Teaching Domain Specific Vocabulary

Incorporating Picture Books In Your Upper Elementary Classroom

teaching inference

Digging Deeper: Teaching Inference in Upper Elementary

teaching nouns and verbs grammar skills upper elementary

Teaching Language Skills: Nouns and Verbs

Comparing Texts: Moving Beyond the Basics

how to teach poetry 3rd 4th 5th grade

How to Teach Poetry in Upper Elementary

Free anchor charts, interactive notebook pages, and activities to teach commonly confused words in upper elementary.

How To Teach Commonly Confused Words in Upper Elementary

There are many amazing books to read, but which ones should make the cut? Here are my best tips for how to select novels in upper elementary.

Thoughtful Tips for How To Select Novels in Upper Elementary

free upper elementary resources for teaching prefixes and suffixes along with Greek or Latin roots

The Complete Guide to Teaching Prefixes and Suffixes

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How do you encourage a growth mindset, specificall

How do you encourage a growth mindset, specifically in math? 💭

I’m currently ✨obsessed✨ with Jo Boaler’s Mathematical Mindsets, so we’re really focusing on OUR math mindsets.

Even though I primarily teach students who are identified as gifted, they face their own very unique struggles— some still lack a growth mindset about math and some have rarely faced true challenge in math.

These two books are some of my favorites for starting open conversations about our math mindsets, and I think they’re staples for just about every classroom with mathematicians (P.S. That is every classroom.)!

Have you had parent-teacher conferences yet, or ar

Could these monsters BE any cuter? 👹👾 These

Have you used Topple Blocks in your classroom!? We

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So, is it weird to admit that I have a favorite ma

So, is it weird to admit that I have a favorite math fact? 😍 🤷🏼‍♀️ Six times six equals thirty-six. It just glides off the tongue, doesn’t it?! 💥 So tell me... do YOU a have a favorite fact, or am I alone here? 😂

I have always told my students about how much I love this math fact, and they always giggle at me at first because WHO HAS A FAVORITE MATH FACT? But then after a while, THEY would come to me and start telling me their favorite facts. So naturally, I turned it into a math fact practice game (adapted from a popular one!) where each student told me their favorite fact, we put it on a sticker, and walked around finding the product of each person’s favorite fact. It was goofy and silly, but they loved it and always wore their stickers all day long. 😂

My 9 year old took the first picture, and my 4 yea

My 9 year old took the first picture, and my 4 year old took the second one. They both looked at their final products with pure joy, exclaiming what beautiful pictures they had captured. I looked at the pictures and took a moment to see myself through their eyes, and my perspective always shifts.

This is a really hard season for so many teachers (and parents, too), and I won’t sugarcoat that, but I hope you all can take a moment to see some of the good that your students see on a daily basis. The little moments that add up to make a big difference. The lightbulb moments that you might not even notice. The moment of encouragement you offered that turned a child’s day around. It’s all there, and it all adds up. ❤️

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