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Teaching a vocabulary word of the day helps upper elementary students develop a wider knowledge of words, tackle complex texts, speak confidently, and think critically.

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Increase Word Power with Vocabulary Word of the Day

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 

These tried and true literacy teacher observation lessons are perfect to use during your teacher observations for the beginning, middle, and end of the school year.

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Observation-Approved Literacy Resources: Tried and True Literacy Teacher Observation Lessons 

This Leap Year Activities Bundle challenges 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students to think critically and apply their new knowledge about Leap Year.

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Leap Year Activities For Upper Elementary School

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

Browse a full year of lessons focused on critical character-building skills for social and emotional learning (SEL) with picture books.

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The Best Way to Teach Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) with Picture Books

Explore dozens of upper elementary resources to make teaching figurative language more engaging, rigorous, and of course, low-prep for you!

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Fun Ideas for Teaching Figurative Language & Free Starter Kit

These engaging and educational Christmas math and Christmas literacy activities will captivate your students while reinforcing important skills and standards.

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Christmas Math and Literacy Ideas for Christmas in the Classroom

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

These beautiful fall picture books are perfect for teaching character and academic skills in upper elementary. Includes our anchor chart!

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4 Beautiful Fall Picture Books for Teaching Character and Academic Skills

Make planning your next novel study easy with these 5th grade novel study books! These books will entertain and ignite a passion for reading.

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5th Grade Novel Study Books

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There are two questions I always get from parents: There are two questions I always get from parents: 1️⃣”What should I work on with them over the summer?” and 2️⃣ “What books do you recommend for my child?” 💥 So, I put together a FREE resource for you to send home to help parents support their kids over the summer! 

🛑 It’s not a big printable packet or workbook full of worksheets — instead, it has book lists, skill lists, and even quick activity suggestions to help guide parents over the summer! 

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Just say noooo to those end of book tests and packets of endless comprehension questions. Say “YES” to super fun cumulative novel projects. 🤗 I’ve been doing this one — where kids create an Amazon listing for their book — for YEARS, and it never gets old!
We end our school year the same way we started it, We end our school year the same way we started it, and it always warms my heart to see how far we’ve come. 💕❤️🥰 I’ve adapted Find Someone Who to have an end of the year twist, and it’s a really special, sweet way to see kids come together for a few minutes at the end of the year! 

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I LOVE planning for the end of the year. Comment “Last Week!” below, and I’ll send you all the links! 💕

I’m a big believer in keeping our schedule as consistent as possible and continuing to have high expectations while also embracing the fun and celebration that comes with the end of the school year! Each of these activities accomplishes just that — total engagement but consistency right until the very end! ☀️
It’s time! ☀️ Over the last 16 years, I’ve It’s time! ☀️ Over the last 16 years, I’ve perfected my lesson plans for the last two weeks of school. Comment PLANS below, and I’ll send them to you and help simplify your end of the year planning!
🚨 It is Teacher Care Week here at Teaching With 🚨 It is Teacher Care Week here at Teaching With a Mountain View! Baking cookies is one of my favorite ways to calm the chaos after a busy day in the classroom. 🥰 Since I can’t bake any for you, I’d love to send five of you a gift card to your favorite treat location! 

💕💕 Comment below with your favorite treat to see in the teacher’s lounge, and I’ll automatically enter you AND send you an exclusive FREE resource to use with your students!
This is one the BEST traditions my previous school This is one the BEST traditions my previous school had, and I include it in my FREE Last Week of School Lesson plans! 

It was inspired by a segment on GMA, and the students each wrote three words to describe their year. We would take pictures of the students with their words and put together a huge school-wide slide show on the last day of school to showcase our words.⁣ I still LOVE doing it with students and making it into a collaborative chart!
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My students have been BEGGING for more of this boo My students have been BEGGING for more of this book and the activity that goes with it!! They are GLUED to the tales and love trying to interpret them. 

Comment below, and I’ll send you a link to the book! 📪 📕 

Each of these ten word tales is sliiiiiightly unsettling and unusual and REALLY makes kids think through the possibilities! I shared several with my students, and they were obsessed with them! 

Then, I had them write their own 10 word tales (harder than it seems!). Since the illustrations add so much to the story, I had the kids SWITCH tales and illustrate their partner’s tales. They LOVED this part and seeing how their meaning was interpreted by their illustrator!

They begged so much to do this again that I obliged, and that STILL wasn’t enough! 😂

Disclaimer: Some of the tales really are odd and a little unsettling, so preview them ahead of time — I recommend this one for the older (3rd grade+) crowd! 💕
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