Grammar and Morphology
You have found your go-to location for all things upper elementary grammar and morphology — true building blocks of literacy instruction in elementary classrooms! I promise I won’t judge your grammar, but I WILL help you teach it!
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FREE Prefix, Suffix, and Root Bundle
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Morphology on the Blog
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Implementing Enrichment Binders for High-Achieving and Gifted Learners
Implementing Enrichment Binders for High Achievers and Gifted Students Teachers are the ultimate multitaskers, especially when it comes to differentiation! You know you need to meet the needs of all…
Beyond the Curriculum: The Best Supplemental ELA and Math Resources for Upper Elementary
Teaching ELA and math in upper elementary can feel like juggling plates… while tap dancing and trying to feed an elephant. You have the curriculum (or lack thereof, in some…
How to Teach Poetry All Year
Do you struggle with how to teach poetry? Do your students groan at the mere mention of rhyme or prose? Are you secretly glad National Poetry Month in April is…
Observation-Approved Literacy Resources: Tried and True Literacy Teacher Observation Lessons
If you’re looking for literacy teacher observation lessons that will impress your administrator during your next formal observation, then you’re in the right place! If you haven’t read the first…
Tips for Using Literacy Centers in Upper Elementary
Reading centers, literacy centers, reading stations… whatever your school calls them, they are often overlooked tools in the upper elementary classroom. However, reading centers are an integral and successful part…
The Complete Guide to Teaching Prefixes and Suffixes
Once students reach upper elementary, they have a lot of decoding strategies in their reading toolbox. At this point, many students have mastered decoding and have many tools in their…
FREE Giggles and Grammar Resources for Adjectives & Adverbs
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“Giggles and Grammar” Curriculum for Upper Elementary
The thought of teaching grammar in upper elementary can often be met with groans, from both students AND teachers. As teachers, we often face a lack of resources to teach…
6 Ways To Integrate Daily Grammar Practice Into Your Routines
Grammar. It’s a part of English whether you love it or hate it (I’m a love it kind of girl! My grammar college courses were some of my favorites, and…
Activities for Teaching Punctuation: Quotation Marks, Dialogue, and Apostrophes
Students who don’t use punctuation often miss the point. Get it?? That’s a lame joke, but it speaks to our upper elementary students’ larger struggle with using quotation marks and…
Language Skill Activities: How to Teach Conjunctions, Interjections, Articles, and Prepositions
Will you think I’m a huge nerd if I tell you how much I love teaching language skills to my upper elementary students?! Language skills and rules for conjunctions, interjections,…
Teaching Adjectives and Adverbs
Teaching Adjectives and adverbs can seem like a basic skill for upper elementary students, but it is an essential language skill that can’t be skimmed over! You may be tempted…
Teaching Language Skills: Nouns and Verbs
Upper elementary students are pretty familiar with the function of nouns and verbs, but that doesn’t mean we can skip teaching this crucial language skill. Nouns and verbs lay the…
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hey, I’m Mary
I’m so glad you are here. I’m a current gifted and talented teacher in a small town in Colorado, and I’ve been in education since 2009. My passion (other than my family and cookies) is for making teachers’ lives easier and classrooms more engaging.
