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This series of high-interest reading lessons and slides will help your students become confident readers and thinkers with accompanying slide guides.

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Reading Lessons Made Easy

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

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

You can use this FREE resource to help cover all of key standards when teaching point of view and perspective in upper elementary.

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The Complete Guide to Teaching Point of View and Perspective

Here are my best tips for teaching students to make nonfiction inferences, a super important skill for upper elementary students.

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Teaching Students To Make Nonfiction Inferences

This free guide to teaching inference includes checklists, book lists, lesson plans, anchor charts, practice activities, and more!

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The Complete Guide to Teaching Inference

Improving inference skills is simple with these engaging and unique activities that go beyond just simply reading and answering inference questions.

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Improving Inference Skills

Teaching main idea and theme is a critical reading comprehension skills. These resources will help students discern the difference.

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The Complete Guide to Teaching Main Idea and Theme

Amazing reading skill videos to teach key upper elementary reading skills. Includes activity ideas for each video and related resource too.

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Amazing Reading Skill Videos

Comparing and contrasting texts, characters, themes, and literary elements takes critical thinking and is key to reading comprehension.

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Comparing and Contrasting Texts: Why it’s Important and How to Teach It

Teaching tips and ideas for fact vs. opinion practice in upper elementary. Includes an anchor chart and practice activities.

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4 Activities to Teach Fact vs. Opinion

Includes anchor chart and centers for how to teach sequencing as the foundation of many key reading skills in upper elementary.

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How To Teach Sequencing In Upper Elementary

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I borrowed some of our at-home Lego collection and let my students go to town building symbols on the glasses that represented different things about them. We had everything from big mountains, pineapples representing cultural roots in Hawaii, Taylor Swift figurines to display a love of music, and plenty of musical instruments and animals! I LOVED hearing my students stand in front of the class and talk about their creative symbols!

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