Teaching Main Idea Vs. Theme
If your students are anything like mine, they have an incredibly difficult time telling the difference between main idea and…
Figurative Language Review
I have been trying to write this post for two weeks now! Between home, school and a few new resources…
Teaching Point of View
I absolutely love teaching point of view! We have been busy working on point of view, and most specifically, on…
Informational Text Structures
I have spent the past week working on Informational Text Structures with my 5th graders. I was shocked to discover…
Converting Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
Before we left for wonderful winter break (and, oh, how wonderful it was), we spent a week focusing on percentages…
Adding and Subtracting Decimals Activities & Freebies!
I’ve mentioned before that I have the same group of students this year that I had last year, so I…
Characters, Characters, and more Characters: How To Teach Character Traits & Character Conflict
We have gone a little character crazy in my room. We went over Character Traits which I talked a little…
Teaching Exponents
We have been busy in math working on exponents! I have an accelerated 5th grade group, so we needed to…
Getting busy!
We had such a busy week this week, but I feel like we got so much accomplished in such a…
Top 10 Tips for Building Reading Fluency
We have all heard about the shift that happens, usually between second and third grade, when students (should) go from…
Dividing Fractions Anchor Chart, Game Freebie, and Math Journal
We tackled dividing fractions this week! I was a little bit apprehensive about it since these are wee little fourth…
Perimeter and Area
We finished our perimeter and area unit several weeks ago (right before fractions!), but I never got around to posting…
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