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These November Literacy Lessons for upper elementary combine a high-quality, skill-focused passage with carefully selected picture books.

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Elevate Your November Literacy Lessons with Engaging Passages & Picture Books

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

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

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

Research shows that reading fluency is a direct indicator of comprehension success. One of my go-to ways to practice fluency is with fluency picture books!

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 7 Favorite Fluency Picture Books

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Incorporating Picture Books In Your Upper Elementary Classroom

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The games are finally coming this week, and I can’t WAIT to start incorporating them into my classroom!! 👏 We just wrapped up ELEVEN new podcasts (over 60 minutes of content) for the classroom focusing on winter sports, and I can’t wait to get started! These are always SUCH a huge hit with my students. 

Comment below, and I’ll send you the info for ALL of my Winter Games plans over the next few weeks!
Take a look at the current state of my classroom a Take a look at the current state of my classroom absolutely COVERED in books and tell me…What is YOUR favorite book in your classroom right now? 👇

🌟 Last week, I looked around my room and took a moment to appreciate all the beautiful books we’ve read over the past few weeks or plan to read soon. I use these books during morning meeting, for literacy lessons, to focus in on personal growth goals my students have, etc. By putting them up around the room, I generate interest in the stories, remind students of the important lessons learned in certain books we’ve read, and expose students to many different ideas about life, the world, and the nature of humans. They are TRULY one of the single greatest tools I have as a teacher. 🩷💕
I teach high achieving, gifted identified students I teach high achieving, gifted identified students, and if they end their time with me understanding just one thing, I want it to be this. 💕🩷 

This poster is adapted from my lesson on perfectionism with the book Ish by Peter Reynolds and accompanied by other excellent books for overcoming this challenge. Comment below for the book companion, or save the anchor chart to create with your students.
Comment below, and I’ll send you the FREE gift t Comment below, and I’ll send you the FREE gift tags (lots of options!) and a link to these cuties. 🩷💕 #studentgifts #valentines
🤣🤣 This week I handed my students a paper cl 🤣🤣 This week I handed my students a paper clip to put a few strips of paper together and totally forgot that’s a skill I need to teach. What other random little things like this do you find yourself teaching students?
Comment below, and I’ll send you the FREE gift t Comment below, and I’ll send you the FREE gift tags! There are four gift tags to go with the keychains, two general teacher Valentine’s Day tags, and four for use with art sets or anything crafty (a gift I’m using for another grade level!).
I LOVE my text structures unit, but it hasn’t al I LOVE my text structures unit, but it hasn’t always been that way! 👀 😬 🎉 After years of trial and error, I developed a sequence of text structures lessons that I love, live teaching and kids love, too. Win win. 🏆 

Drop a comment below, and I’ll send you a link to all my text structure lessons, activities, freebies, and so much more! 😀 I promise it’s going to be your favorite way to teach text structures.
Okay, I actually have two that I think about ALL t Okay, I actually have two that I think about ALL the time. ✨ Both of these came up early in my career and stuck with me. I’d love to hear yours!

🌟 Regarding student behaviors… it’s not necessary to react to everything you notice. THIS ONE. This is the one. 

🌟 Don’t worry so much about PROVING yourself and focus on IMPROVING your teaching practices in small ways. 🩷

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