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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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Most Popular Literacy Posts

Curated book lists, practical teaching tips, and resources that will make teaching your upper elementary units of study so much easier to plan.

Units of Study Using Rich Picture Books

Learn how to use student assessment data to improve student growth and achievement. Interpret scores, group students based, and plan differentiated lessons.

How To Use Student Assessment Data: Practical Tips for Differentiation and Growth

This picture book collection features women who embody courage, perseverance, and empowerment to create meaningful Women's History Month activities.

Women’s history month activities for upper elementary

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

Reading Lessons Made Easy

Download FREE Rockefeller Christmas tree literacy activities, informational text passages, comprehension questions, depth and complexity discussions, and more!

Free Rockefeller Christmas Tree Literacy Activities

When we truly learn how to teach poetry effectively and its benefits, poetry can be a meaningful (and fun!) addition to our literacy block all year long.

How to Teach Poetry All Year

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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"Giggles and Grammar" is the BEST grammar curriculum that engages students in meaningful, systematic grammar lessons and helps students LOVE learning grammar skills.

“Giggles and Grammar” Curriculum for Upper Elementary

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

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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Most Popular Novel & Picture Book Posts

Curated book lists, practical teaching tips, and resources that will make teaching your upper elementary units of study so much easier to plan.

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.

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!

Free Rockefeller Christmas Tree Literacy Activities

First Chapter Fridays is an engaging way to introduce new books, authors, and genres. These tips keep students engaged during whole-class reading.

First Chapter Fridays and Novel Read-Aloud Engagement Tips

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.

Using Picture Books to Help Students Build Relationship Skills

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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Most Popular Math Posts

Curated book lists, practical teaching tips, and resources that will make teaching your upper elementary units of study so much easier to plan.

Units of Study Using Rich Picture Books

Learn how to use student assessment data to improve student growth and achievement. Interpret scores, group students based, and plan differentiated lessons.

How To Use Student Assessment Data: Practical Tips for Differentiation and Growth

If you’re looking for new ways to make fractions less intimidating (and more fun!), here are my favorite real-world fraction lessons. Many of them are FREE!

The Best Real-World Fraction Lessons

High-ceiling math tasks are tiered activities that help all students succeed, but they are especially beneficial to help gifted students grow.

High-Ceiling Math Tasks for Gifted Learners

Daily math word problems play a pivotal role in mathematical understanding and critical thinking skills. These 3rd- 5th grade sets make implementation simple!

The Importance of Daily Math Word Problems

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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These beautiful fall picture books are perfect for teaching character and academic skills in upper elementary. Includes our anchor chart!

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.

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

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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Most Popular Classrooom Posts

This blog post is PACKED with practical advice for new teachers, straight from experienced upper elementary teachers who have been exactly where you are.

Practical Advice for New Teachers, Straight From Our Community

Academic competitions promote academic growth, productive struggle, and social connections alongside critical thinking skills. Learn how to get your school involved!

Academic Competitions That Build Connections

Here are my favorite smart classroom purchases that maximize the impact of every cent you have to spend as a teacher.

8 Types of Smart Classroom Purchases

Growth mindset is a way of thinking that can transform your classroom and empower your students to reach their highest potential. Learn how to encourage it!

The Importance of Growth Mindset

Learn how to build connections and student relationships with success stickers. These have quickly become one of my favorite traditions!

How To Build Connections and Student Relationships with Success Stickers

More Classroom Ideas
There are two questions I always get from parents: There are two questions I always get from parents: 1️⃣”What should I work on with them over the summer?” and 2️⃣ “What books do you recommend for my child?” 💥 So, I put together a FREE resource for you to send home to help parents support their kids over the summer! 

🛑 It’s not a big printable packet or workbook full of worksheets — instead, it has book lists, skill lists, and even quick activity suggestions to help guide parents over the summer! 

Comment below, and I’ll send you the link to download it! 💕❤️
Comment below, and I’ll send you a link to the F Comment below, and I’ll send you a link to the FREE assignment sheet and more info! 🌟 🌟 

Just say noooo to those end of book tests and packets of endless comprehension questions. Say “YES” to super fun cumulative novel projects. 🤗 I’ve been doing this one — where kids create an Amazon listing for their book — for YEARS, and it never gets old!
We end our school year the same way we started it, We end our school year the same way we started it, and it always warms my heart to see how far we’ve come. 💕❤️🥰 I’ve adapted Find Someone Who to have an end of the year twist, and it’s a really special, sweet way to see kids come together for a few minutes at the end of the year! 

It’s FREE and no prep! Just drop a comment below, and I’ll send it to you. 💕❤️
I LOVE planning for the end of the year. Comment “Last Week!” below, and I’ll send you all the links! 💕

I’m a big believer in keeping our schedule as consistent as possible and continuing to have high expectations while also embracing the fun and celebration that comes with the end of the school year! Each of these activities accomplishes just that — total engagement but consistency right until the very end! ☀️
It’s time! ☀️ Over the last 16 years, I’ve It’s time! ☀️ Over the last 16 years, I’ve perfected my lesson plans for the last two weeks of school. Comment PLANS below, and I’ll send them to you and help simplify your end of the year planning!
🚨 It is Teacher Care Week here at Teaching With 🚨 It is Teacher Care Week here at Teaching With a Mountain View! Baking cookies is one of my favorite ways to calm the chaos after a busy day in the classroom. 🥰 Since I can’t bake any for you, I’d love to send five of you a gift card to your favorite treat location! 

💕💕 Comment below with your favorite treat to see in the teacher’s lounge, and I’ll automatically enter you AND send you an exclusive FREE resource to use with your students!
This is one the BEST traditions my previous school This is one the BEST traditions my previous school had, and I include it in my FREE Last Week of School Lesson plans! 

It was inspired by a segment on GMA, and the students each wrote three words to describe their year. We would take pictures of the students with their words and put together a huge school-wide slide show on the last day of school to showcase our words.⁣ I still LOVE doing it with students and making it into a collaborative chart!
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➡  So tell me... what would YOUR three words be to describe this year? 😂 Comment below, and I’ll send you my FREE lesson plans for the last week of school!
My students have been BEGGING for more of this boo My students have been BEGGING for more of this book and the activity that goes with it!! They are GLUED to the tales and love trying to interpret them. 

Comment below, and I’ll send you a link to the book! 📪 📕 

Each of these ten word tales is sliiiiiightly unsettling and unusual and REALLY makes kids think through the possibilities! I shared several with my students, and they were obsessed with them! 

Then, I had them write their own 10 word tales (harder than it seems!). Since the illustrations add so much to the story, I had the kids SWITCH tales and illustrate their partner’s tales. They LOVED this part and seeing how their meaning was interpreted by their illustrator!

They begged so much to do this again that I obliged, and that STILL wasn’t enough! 😂

Disclaimer: Some of the tales really are odd and a little unsettling, so preview them ahead of time — I recommend this one for the older (3rd grade+) crowd! 💕
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