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I’m so glad you’ve joined me on my little corner of the Internet! I’ve been sharing teaching resources and ideas on my blog since 2011, so it can be a little hard to know where to start. I’ve created this page to highlight some of my most popular posts and resources to help you get started.

Literacy

Literacy

Teaching reading and writing are two of my passions, and I absolutely love sharing lesson ideas here. From quick lessons to complete units, scroll down to see all the different literacy lessons I’ve shared over the years.

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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!

 7 Favorite fluency picture books

Make planning your next novel study easy with these 4th grade novel study books! These books will entertain and ignite a passion for reading.

4th grade novel study books

Make planning your next novel study easy with these 3rd grade novel study books! I've also included my favorite accountability tips!

3rd Grade Novel Study Books

Using picture books with intermediate students is extremely useful. Learn tips to incorporate a variety of books into your instruction.

Tips for Using Picture Books with Intermediate Students

These sweet school-themed books are the perfect tools for this back to school reading lesson that introduces comparing texts and characters.

Back to School Reading Lesson

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

The Complete Guide to Teaching Point of View and Perspective

More Literacy Ideas
Grammar

Grammar

You have found your go-to location for all things upper elementary grammar. I promise I won’t judge your grammar, but I WILL help you teach it!

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Most Popular Grammar Posts

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

6 Ways To Integrate Daily Grammar Practice Into Your Routines

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

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

Upper elementary language skill activities to teach conjunctions, interjections, articles, and prepositions. Download a FREE reference guide.

Language Skill Activities: How to Teach Conjunctions, Interjections, Articles, and Prepositions

This post includes an anchor chart and practice activities for teaching adjectives and adverbs in upper elementary.

Teaching Adjectives and Adverbs

teaching nouns and verbs grammar skills upper elementary

Teaching Language Skills: Nouns and Verbs

Free anchor charts, interactive notebook pages, and activities to teach commonly confused words in upper elementary.

How To Teach Commonly Confused Words in Upper Elementary

More Grammar Ideas
Novels & Picture Books

Novels & Picture Books

I’m passionate about incorporating authentic picture books and novels into my classroom on a daily basis. Whether you’re looking to use picture books to teach reading skills, implement novel studies, or incorporate books into your morning meeting to address essential social and emotional skills, you’ll find it all here!

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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!

 7 Favorite fluency picture books

Make planning your next novel study easy with these 4th grade novel study books! These books will entertain and ignite a passion for reading.

4th grade novel study books

Make planning your next novel study easy with these 3rd grade novel study books! I've also included my favorite accountability tips!

3rd Grade Novel Study Books

Advanced chapter books for higher-level readers in second through fourth grade. Each of these books vary in topic to reach more interests.

Advanced Chapter Books for Elementary Readers

Literacy choice boards increase comprehension and accountability during novel studies. These work with ANY book and work for assessment too.

Literacy Choice Boards

More Novel & Picture Book Ideas
Math

Math

Making math engaging and fun doesn’t mean eliminating rigorous content! Over the last several years, I have shared hundreds of math lessons and ideas in the blog posts below. From teaching error analysis skills to tackling multi-step problems, you are guaranteed to find an engaging math lesson in the archives.

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Learn six strategies for increasing critical thinking through word problems and error analysis. Also includes several FREE resources to improve critical thinking.

6 Strategies for Increasing Critical Thinking with Problem Solving

Teaching multiplication and division is simple with these FREE lessons, anchor charts, books, and differentiated activities.

The Complete Guide to Teaching Multiplication and Division

Critical thinking in math helps students learn to analyze and evaluate math concepts, identify patterns and relationships, and explore different strategies.

How To Encourage Critical Thinking in Math

Teaching regions of the United States has never been so fun! Become tourists to learn about regions in literacy, math, social studies, and science!

Teaching Regions of the United States: Cross-Curricular Learning Projects

This FREE GUIDE has numerous ways to extend teaching addition and subtraction skills with upper elementary students.

The Complete Guide to Teaching Addition and Subtraction

More math Ideas
Anchor Charts

Anchor Charts

Over the years, I have created dozens of anchor charts in my classroom. I am a huge proponent of creating anchor charts with my students, and I strongly believe that the perfect anchor chart isn’t always pretty. The posts below feature many of my anchor charts.

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

The Complete Guide to Teaching Point of View and Perspective

Teaching multiplication and division is simple with these FREE lessons, anchor charts, books, and differentiated activities.

The Complete Guide to Teaching Multiplication and Division

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

The Complete Guide to Teaching Inference

This FREE GUIDE has numerous ways to extend teaching addition and subtraction skills with upper elementary students.

The Complete Guide to Teaching Addition and Subtraction

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

The Complete Guide to Teaching Main Idea and Theme

This FREE context clues guide includes a ton of ideas, context clues lessons, essential skills, book list, free activities, and more!

The Complete Guide to Context Clues Lessons

More Anchor Chart Ideas
Classroom

Classroom

Whether you are looking for tips to better manage your classroom, classroom design, flexible seating, or classroom organization, you are in the right place! Browse through the posts and categories below to explore all of my tips and tricks for running your classroom.

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If you’re new to focus walls in upper elementary, think of them as a designated area where you’ll display key information and resources to support student learning.

Tips for Using Focus Walls in Upper Elementary

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This free character education lesson is perfect for building relationships and conversation skills during morning meeting.

Free Character Education Lesson for Morning Meeting

These tips will help you minimize missing assignments and develop a time-saving system for organizing student work in upper elementary.

Tips for Organizing Student Work

Critical thinking in math helps students learn to analyze and evaluate math concepts, identify patterns and relationships, and explore different strategies.

How To Encourage Critical Thinking in Math

More Classroom Ideas
I’ve had this set of reminders (or some smaller I’ve had this set of reminders (or some smaller version of it) hanging in my classroom since 2009! 🤩 I have a F R E E printable version, too! Hop to the link in my profile to grab it, OR drop the word “poster” here, and I’ll send it to you! 

https://teachingwithamountainview.com/groups-acronym/
Elapsed Time Amazing Race is my favorite (and free Elapsed Time Amazing Race is my favorite (and freeeeee!!) ✈️ 🧳 🕰️ 

Students absolutely love refining their elapsed time skills with this game, and they learn so much at the same time. I always try to do this lesson while I teach context clues so that we can do the Context Clues Travel Trek at the same time. Super easy mini transformation and SO much meaningful skill practice! This is FREE on the blog in both a digital and printable around the room version. 

Drop a comment below, and I’ll send you the link. 

#iteach #socialstudies #elapsedtime #teachersofinstagram #iteachmath #iteachtoo #teachersfollowteachers
I know I talk about our weekly letters a lot, but I know I talk about our weekly letters a lot, but they are a teaching highlight for me. 💖 This week, one of my students wrote about loving to create comics, so I immediately added that to my list of things to incorporate this year! 

If you want to know more, drop a comment with the word LETTERS, and I’ll send you more info and free letter pack to get started! 📫 

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💭 It’s not too late to make a beautiful yearl 💭 It’s not too late to make a beautiful yearlong bulletin board that really makes your students think AND provides real world relevance and connection!!
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I’ve done this for the last few years and just LOVE seeing what my students come up with! Each student decides on something they want to be when they grow up OR something they want to do (play soccer, learn piano, master the new level XYZ video game). 

Then, they have to brainstorm several ways math and/or reading will be part of that and write it on their quote bubble. I hang their picture up with it on the bulletin board, and throughout the year, they can add to the MATH MATTERS board with other ideas about how they use math in their everyday life. 💡 I LOVE seeing their ideas and how they grow throughout the year!

Swipe all the way through to see a beautiful Reading Matters version of the bulletin board! ❤️
Let’s talk MORNING MEETING! ❤️❤️ Do you Let’s talk MORNING MEETING! ❤️❤️ Do you have a favorite book you use during it?! It’s my favorite time of day, and my students know they are almost always going to hear an excellent picture book during our time together. 

💖 Swipe to see 8 of the books I’m using to start the year!

I use these books to help teach crucial social and personal skills and develop a classroom community and teamwork! 

I am super intentional with how I use these books to support our personal and classroom goals, so this year, we’re developing specific, research-based lessons to go along with them. 

💥 Drop a comment below, and I’ll send you a link to MORE morning meeting book lists and these lessons! ❤️
This is your reminder that your notebook entries d This is your reminder that your notebook entries don’t need to be elaborate, but you should be teaching your students to form compound sentences. 😉 Swipe to see some of my favorite (but easy to implement) coordinating conjunction lessons!

✍️Notebooks: When I taught coordinating conjunctions, my students made their own notes pages in their writing journals. I printed out my coordinating conjunctions task cards in mini format (16 to a page!) to glue in as examples. The entire left side is covered in task cards for practice. 

✍️Anchor Chart: Can you fill in the blanks?! Here’s the shell I use when teaching the lesson. 

✍️Activity: Students use sentence strips and elbow noodles to form compound sentences. Always a hit!
Adding this to my MUST-DO lessons from here on out Adding this to my MUST-DO lessons from here on out! 💖 We read One Word for Kids, and each of my students determined what their word for the year would be. We talked about how their words can apply to situations both at home and at school and how they will serve as a guide for each student throughout the year. 

As a reminder of their word (and because Taylor Swift is still on my mind 😍), each student made a bracelet with their word. They LOVED this, and I’ve loved seeing them wearing their bracelets as a reminder of their goal for the year. 

Want a link to the book and the beads I used? Drop a comment below, and I’ll send it your way. ❤️💖
Are you teaching place value right now? Me too! 🤗 That means it’s time for my most popular math project EVER! 🕵️‍♂️ Save this post and drop the word “YES” below, and I’ll send you a link!

✨ Each student gets a TOP SECRET folder (I fold large construction paper in half and glue the label on!), and we play Mission Impossible Music. I bought a “confidential” stamp years ago, and I DRAMATICALLY stamp each completed page with it. Then, students track their progress with fingerprints on the tracking chart. Add some inexpensive magnifying glasses… the engagement is truly off the charts! 

I designed Place Value Detectives to challenge your students, engage them in real-life scenarios, and ignite their passion for math! It’s an excellent challenge that your kids will love. I promise! With over 12,000 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reviews and years of my own classroom testing and refining, Place Value Detectives is a tried and true resource for enriching your place value unit! 🔍 

🕵️‍♀️ Place Value Detectives features:

🔍 8 Detective Tasks for Students to Complete
🔍 Differentiated versions for students in grades 3-5
🔍 DIGITAL, PRINTABLE, and LESS-TEXT options
🔍  NO Prep! Just print, go, and watch them GROW! 🌱

What Skills Are Covered in This Place Value Math Project?
🔍 Place Value
🔍 Expanded Form
🔍 Standard Form
🔍 Word Form
🔍 Rounding
🔍 Comparing
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