Skip to content

Ready for back-to-school prep? We can help!

FREE FIRST WEEK LESSON PLANS
  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Facebook Group
  • Free Resource Library
  • TrendingExpand
    • Back-to-School
    • New Teachers
    • Professional Development
    • Homeschool
    • Free TWAMV Resource Guide
Search
Shop Now
Teaching with a Mountain View

Literacy

Grammar

Novels & Picture Books

Novels & Picture Books

Math

Anchor Charts

Anchor Charts

Classroom

Classroom

Teaching with a Mountain View
Classroom

Homeschool Resources

Deciding to homeschool your child can be both exciting and overwhelming. I’ll never forget the moment we decided to make the leap, albeit only for a year. There’s so much to consider, but you don’t have to have it all figured out on day one. With a bit of planning (and a lot of patience!), you’ll find your rhythm, adjust it, and find it again and again!  Below, you’ll find advice to new homeschool parents (or veterans) from the perspective of a veteran teacher and someone who has homeschooled.

Enter your email to download our free resource guide!

Homeschool Blog Posts

A FREE compilation of creative and critical thinking games for your classroom with quick and fun ways to keep students engaged in learning AND stretch their thinking.

ZERO Prep (and FREE!) Creative and Critical Thinking Games

Combining our time as homeschoolers and my 16+ years in education, I have some tips for homeschool parents to make homeschooling the best it can be!

Advice to New Homeschool Parents from a Veteran Teacher (And former Homeschool Mom!)

My best tips for how to prevent summer slide with a strategic blend of reading and math activities. It IS possible to turn the summer months into a period of growth!

How to Prevent Summer Slide in Upper Elementary

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

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

"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

This Teaching With a Mountain View Resource guide is your shortcut to finding exactly what you need for your students separated by topic and season for easy navigation.

Teaching With a Mountain VieW Resource Guide

Download lists with the best upper elementary books and free printable bookmarks with reading response questions to share with families throughout the year.

The Best Upper Elementary Books and Free Printable Bookmarks

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.

Increase Word Power with Vocabulary Word of the Day

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

Make planning your next novel study easy with these 5th grade novel study books! These books will entertain and ignite a passion for reading.

5th Grade Novel Study Books

Register for 8 weeks of FREE professional development. The weekly tips will leave you better prepared to teach 8 key upper elementary reading and math skills.

8 Weeks of Free Professional Development for Teachers

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

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

Favorite upper elementary math manipulatives and tips for hands-on learning to meet a variety of student needs.

Must-Have Math Manipulatives For Upper Elementary

Tips for organizing your upper elementary literacy block. Includes daily routines, whole group lessons, and literacy rotations.

How I Organize My Literacy Block

teaching domain specific vocabulary upper elementary

Teaching Domain Specific Vocabulary

Math Workshop Ideas for Upper Elementary

Math Workshop Ideas for Upper Elementary

Incorporating Picture Books In Your Upper Elementary Classroom

Incorporating Picture Books In Your Upper Elementary Classroom

math projects upper elementary

Math Projects: Differentiated Hands-On Learning

reading fluency

Teaching Oral Reading Fluency

Supporting Student Learning at Home

Supporting Student Learning at Home

Anchor charts serve as daily references for your lessons, empowering students to solve problems independently. Here are 8 of the best anchor chart tips!

8 Anchor Chart Tips & Tricks

The Best Homeschool Resources

  • math and literacy anchor chart templates 8305636
  • math and literacy flipbooks
  • Vocabulary WOD Cover
  • Mental Math Task Cards scaled 1
  • reading skill of the day bundle
  • language skill of teh day
  • 3rd grade math skill of the day
  • 4th grade math skill of the day
  • 5th grad math skill of the day
  • 3rd complete bundle
  • 4th complete bundle
  • 5th complete bundle
  • fluency task cards
I have over 120 math and literacy anchor charts, a I have over 120 math and literacy anchor charts, and while I LOVE making the originals in class with my students, these sure do come in handy! Comment below, and I’ll send you a link. 🩷💕 Use them as mini reference guides for students, easy templates to make your own, or glue into notebooks!
Best classroom addition I’ve ever made. 🩷 My Best classroom addition I’ve ever made. 🩷 My kids love these little critters SO much! Choose, Sophia, Sam, and Marcus make us so happy and kids were BEYOND thrilled to see them again after summer break. 🐠 🐠 🪼 🪼 Comment below, and I’ll send you the link! 😍
These lessons ALWAYS make my upper grades classroo These lessons ALWAYS make my upper grades classroom lesson plans during the first month (ish) of school. Comment below, and I’ll send you the details! 🩷
💡 🧠 I’ve been pulling riddles from these b 💡 🧠 I’ve been pulling riddles from these books since 2021, and our entire school (even staff) loves them! I post one each week and students and staff spend all week figuring it out. Highly recommend for any classroom! 

🤗 🥰 Drop a comment, and I’ll send you a link.
If you’re not using pictures to introduce litera If you’re not using pictures to introduce literal and inferential observations, back to school (right now!!) is the time to start. 😉 Comment below, and I’ll send you free resources to get started, tons of sample anchor charts, and a link to this resource! 🩷 📸
✨ FREE ✨ Five Days of Fluency Lessons for uppe ✨ FREE ✨ Five Days of Fluency Lessons for upper elementary! 👏 Drop a comment below, and I’ll send you everything you need to explicitly teach students the elements of fluent reading. Includes everything you need and tons of tips for getting started with fluency practice in your classroom. 🩷
🎤 🎧 Listening Comprehension + Reading Skills 🎤 🎧 Listening Comprehension + Reading Skills + Super High Interest format AND topics = 😍😍😍 

🫶 Comment below, and I’ll send you a link to a FREE sample and more info for implementing in your classroom! 

Over the last two years, we’ve worked hard to create these school-specific podcasts and LOVE hearing how engaged kids are while using them! Topics range from sports to history to character development and types of writing, and each set includes recorded podcasts, transcripts, show notes, after show activities, and more! 👏
💡 👓 I got this idea from @heyhopeking years 💡 👓 I got this idea from @heyhopeking years ago, and my glasses have patiently been waiting to be used ever since then. I am SO glad I pulled them out of my closet this year to use them as a back to school activity! My students LOVED creating their All About Me glasses, and I plan to create more character glasses throughout the year for different books we read!

🌟 Comment below, and I’ll send you the link to the glasses we used. 

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!

The kids don’t get to keep the glasses so I can use them throughout the year, but we will leave them on display for the next few weeks! If we’d have had more time, I would have had them write a short paragraph and take a picture with their glasses to display. 🩷
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest

Links

  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Facebook Group
  • Free Resource Library
  • Privacy Policy & Disclosures

Topics

  • Literacy
  • Math
  • Grammar
  • Anchor Charts
  • Classroom
  • Novels and Picture books

Shop

  • Shop Website
  • Shop Amazon
  • Wishlist
  • My Account
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Terms & Conditions

©2023 Teaching With a Mountain View . All Rights Reserved | Designed by Ashley Hughes

Lost your password?

Review Cart

No products in the cart.

🍪 Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}
Scroll to top
Search
  • Home
  • Get Inspired
  • About
    • Contact
  • Blog
  • Free Resource Library
  • My Account
Shop Now

Literacy

Grammar

Novels & Picture Books

Novels & Picture Books

Math

Anchor Charts

Anchor Charts

Classroom

Classroom

Facebook X Instagram
Search