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This post explores different approaches to narrative writing and narrative writing mentor texts that help all upper elementary students become stronger writers.

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Narrative Writing Mentor Texts

Curated book lists, practical teaching tips, and resources that will make teaching your upper elementary units of study so much easier to plan.

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Units of Study Using Rich Picture Books

This picture book collection features women who embody courage, perseverance, and empowerment to create meaningful Women's History Month activities.

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Women’s history month activities for upper elementary

Download FREE Rockefeller Christmas tree literacy activities, informational text passages, comprehension questions, depth and complexity discussions, and more!

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Free Rockefeller Christmas Tree Literacy Activities

First Chapter Fridays is an engaging way to introduce new books, authors, and genres. These tips keep students engaged during whole-class reading.

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First Chapter Fridays and Novel Read-Aloud Engagement Tips

Picture books serve as great mentor texts for demonstrating how to connect with others and build relationship skills. Here are six lessons for upper elementary.

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Using Picture Books to Help Students Build Relationship Skills

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

Picture books to teach self-awareness are great resources for introducing social-emotional learning concepts to children in an accessible and engaging way

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Using Picture Books to Build Self-Awareness

Using picture books to teach writing in your classroom is one of the most effective ways to engage your students AND teach them critical writing skills.

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Using Picture Books to Teach Writing 

Wordless picture books are magic tools that we can use in our classrooms to help students make connections and draw inferences effortlessly! 

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The Benefits of Wordless Picture Books

Use these book recommendations to find age-appropriate books for advanced readers in upper elementary and meet the unique needs of all readers.

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The Best Age-Appropriate Books For Advanced Readers

Using Christmas picture books in upper elementary allows your students to capture the magic, wonder, and excitement of the holiday season.

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Top 10 Christmas Picture Books for Upper Elementary

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This is one of my FAVORITE inference investigation This is one of my FAVORITE inference investigations! 🦃 🕵️‍♀️ It’s also part of my Week Before Thanksgiving lesson plans, which includes five FREE resources and tons of ideas to get you through the next couple of weeks! Comment below, and I’ll send the info your way. 🧡
It may be spooky season in my classroom, but you k It may be spooky season in my classroom, but you know I’ll still be keeping things structured and academically focused! 👻 🎃 Comment below, and I’ll send you the links to all the fun in my plans this week! 

Over the years, I’ve amassed so many resources to incorporate seasonal fun while still hitting your standards, crucial reading skills, AND critical thinking. 🍂 ⬇️ 

💚 Halloween Reader’s Theatre was my most popular set for the last TWO years, and I know why! There are 8 plays, and they are SO fun and engaging AND students are held accountable with listener guides. 👻 I also created plays with a variety of kids in each play? so they range from partner plays to groups of six!

🧡 I can’t wait for my students to solve the Halloween inference mystery by exploring their case files to figure out who is wearing each costume! 

🖤… and of course, I can’t forget reading logic puzzles (which my students are OBSESSED with this year) and context clues creepy tasks! Your literacy plans are COVERED for this week! 👏
It’s TIME!!! 👻 🎃 I have to be super honest It’s TIME!!! 👻 🎃 I have to be super honest and admit that my plans for next week aren’t totally, actually IN my plan book yet, BUT, I know precisely what I’m doing and almost ALL of the resources I’ll be using are freeeeee!

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The BEST books about books, libraries, and a love The BEST books about books, libraries, and a love of reading! Each and every one of these books is a GEM and perfect for the classroom. 💎 ✨ 💫 Do you see any favorites, or would you add any to the list?

Comment below, and I’ll send you the list for some inspiration!
This was truly a standout activity last year! 👏 This was truly a standout activity last year! 👏  Comment below, and I’ll send you all the info for implementing this in your classroom! More details ⬇️ 

💚🧡 Last October, I read each of these books (on different days) during literacy, and we did a super quick comparison of the characters, problem/solution/plot, and theme of each book. 

🧡One week, we spent several days during morning meeting discussing The Little Ghost for an extended lesson on self-esteem.

🧡 Once we had read and discussed each book, students wrote a short creative essay answering the following:

👻 Imagine you are writing a new picture book to go on this display.

1️⃣ First, explain what specific theme your book would teach about standing out.

2️⃣ Describe your main character, the problem they would face, and the solution.

3️⃣ Finally, explain why your story would fit well with the three books we read.
FREEEEE and so much fun! Comment below, and I’ll FREEEEE and so much fun! Comment below, and I’ll send you this free assignment that’s perfect for enrichment, teaching alliteration or parts of speech, or early finishers! 💖 

🫶We read @oliverjeffers super fun book (it took us several days, reading a few letters each day), and then students created their own mini alliterative stories after some solid brainstorming sessions. 

It was a great lesson in parts of speech, story elements, sentence structure, AND alliteration. As a bonus, kids LOVED it and it made for such a fun classroom display!
Never not teaching word parts. 🩷💚 Comment be Never not teaching word parts. 🩷💚 Comment below, and I’ll send you ALL my resources, including an entire FREE starter kit for teaching your students the basics of prefixes and suffixes!
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