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November read alouds for upper elementary students, related lessons to use with each book, and seasonal activity ideas too!

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November Read Alouds for Upper Elementary

Upper elementary tips and resources to help you provide engaging instruction and meet all students' needs using authentic texts

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Integrating Authentic Texts into Your Curriculum

Learn how to use reader’s theater scripts in your upper elementary classroom and tips for getting started if you’re brand new to it.

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How To Use Reader’s Theater Scripts in Your Upper Elementary Classroom

Here are some of my favorite fall read alouds, along with different fall literacy activities that are all great for upper elementary.

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Fall Read Alouds and Literacy Activities for Upper Elementary

Learn how to use podcasts in the classroom to challenge students' listening skills, and integrate content related skills too.

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Incorporating Podcasts in the Classroom

Learn how to integrate daily grammar practice into your routines to save valuable time and strengthen grammar skills too.

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6 Ways To Integrate Daily Grammar Practice Into Your Routines

Spelling strategy is an important part of upper elementary literacy instruction. Read tips and download resources for 4 key strategies.

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4 Spelling Strategy Tips for Upper Elementary

Learn how to use literacy centers in upper elementary for engagement and differentiation. Increase independence and collaboration too!

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Tips for Using Literacy Centers in Upper Elementary

Teaching punctuation in upper elementary involves advanced topics like quotation marks, dialogue, and apostrophes. Learn how to make it fun!

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Activities for Teaching Punctuation: Quotation Marks, Dialogue, and Apostrophes

Back to school read alouds are a great way to build community, get to know your students, and discuss important topics for the year.

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A Complete List of Back to School Read Alouds

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Teaching Informational Text Skills

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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FREE Skill of the Day Week

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If you give your students gifts in December, this If you give your students gifts in December, this is the perfect practical and adorable option that they will LOVE! 💕

This year, I added FREE labels for you to print to make your life super easy. 💕🩷 Comment below, and I’ll send you all the links, including the labels to add your name to, print, and go! 👏 

This is the third year I’ve given my students something similar, and the pens and notebooks are always a HUGE hit. 

P.S. I don’t always give out student gifts, and you should never feel like you have to …. but when I do, this is it!
I LOVE teaching about the Rockefeller Center Chris I LOVE teaching about the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, and you can get my plans and resources for FREE! 🌲 🎄 

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This week, we started with reading the informational text passage and will continue synthesizing sources and exploring perspectives by using four books about the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. The books all have similar themes and similar characters, so they lend themselves well to exploring point of view and perspective. 

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🎶 It’s tiiiiime!! 🎶 I absolutely LOVE teac 🎶 It’s tiiiiime!! 🎶 I absolutely LOVE teaching and learning about holidays around the world, and the next three weeks will be filled with synthesizing information from these beautiful books, listening comprehension podcasts, and pen pal letters as we take a deep dive into these celebrations! 👏 

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I’ve never loved a set of acrylic critters more I’ve never loved a set of acrylic critters more than I do this one (and my kids agree). 🥰😍 I originally got them to use as accomplishment animals, but they are so big and adorable that I’m planning to use them for a creative writing assignment! I’ll share more details once I iron out my plans, but for now… you need them too. 😂🤩

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🤫 Dots on the tips of all of her letters to be 🤫 Dots on the tips of all of her letters to be ✨ decorative ✨ and can’t write with anything other than Mr. Sketch Markers. 🤷‍♀️ 

So tell me… if I walked in your room, what subtle hints might I find that told me how long YOU’VE been teaching? 😂
The Humble Pie has become an INSTANT favorite for The Humble Pie has become an INSTANT favorite for me. 🥧 I was speechless when I read it and instantly paired it with The Big Snowdown to teach being humble vs. arrogant and instilling the idea that hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. I created this comparison chart to track our notes as we read, and I can’t wait to talk about these BIG lessons with students. 👏 A MUST pairing for every upper elementary classroom. 🫶
🥹 The reflections after reading these four book 🥹 The reflections after reading these four books has me in awe!! Over the last few years, I’ve done two different versions of these book comparisons (swipe to see both), and they both result in such deep thinking about characters, internal and external conflict, theme vs. topic, and ALL KINDS of character traits! 

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