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Famous Inventors | Biography Reading and Research Unit
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Dive into the amazing world of famous inventors with this reading and research unit that is sure to engage your students in upper elementary. This biography research unit combines nonfiction biography texts, whole-class lessons, vocabulary, and independent research in a creative format that will inspire your students as they learn more about inventors and their…

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Literacy Anchor Charts BUNDLE
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This is the COMPLETE collection of literacy anchor charts and quick reference guides to use with your students during literacy and ELA lessons. These reading, figurative language, and informational text structures anchor chart templates are inspired by the well-loved anchor charts I have featured on my blog for years. How To Use These Literacy Anchor…

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Reading Comprehension Passages | Informational Text
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Informational Text Reading Skills and Close Reading Task Cards for Comprehension Skill Review Engage your readers with high-interest reading comprehension passages and corresponding questions! This resource includes 32 half-page informational text task cards with 4 comprehension questions and tasks on EACH card for a total of 128 informational text questions! Engage your students in meaningful…

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Love Note Literacy was a HIT today! ❤️💕 We

Love Note Literacy was a HIT today! ❤️💕 We began by reading some funny love notes, annotating them, and picking out different parts of the writing. Then, they set off to write their own letter to hand sanitizer from the perspective of a tissue. We were laughing so hard at the letters, and they were so creative! I’ve been doing this for the last 14 years, and the results are 💖 impeccable 💖 every year! Drop a comment below, and I’ll send the info your way!

Don’t skip this book recommendation because it’s my favorite one I’ve read all school year. 🥹 Comment below, and I’ll send you a link, but here are all the details of the book and the moving activity we did with it: ❤️💕

This sweet book is about a young scientist who creates new plants that help people solve problems…. Until he comes across one person he just can’t seem to help. With a little creativity and a lot of love, he dives headfirst into solving the problem! It’s a ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ book, and my students LOVED it. It’s great for Valentine’s Day, but you can use it any time.

❤️ After we were done reading, I had each student think of a person they know and a problem they could solve for that person. They had five minutes and a jar of play dough to design a plant that would help that person.

❤️💕 The problems/solutions they came up with were more thoughtful than I could have ever dreamed. I was moved to tears by several of them, and I highly recommend taking 15 minutes out of your day next week to do this!

It’s time to refresh our enrichment binders! ❤️

🤔 Why enrichment binders? ✍️ Is this just more busy work?

💥 Absolutely not!! 💥

Comment the word “ENRICH” below, and I’ll send you all the details, and read on for more info. 👇

💡 While everything inside can be used with most students in any classroom, I often use them with my GT or high-achieving students.

🌈 I am a firm believer that students who have mastered material should have DIFFERENT work, not just MORE work.

👉That means when students have shown mastery of a skill, we don’t need to make them do more of the same — Instead, we need to have something MEANINGFUL ready for them that either advances or enriches their learning and thinking!

📝 Combined with differentiated class work and appropriate enrichment programs, the content within enrichment binders is rigorous and meaningful and will challenge and advance them academically while still remaining SUPER engaging.

I update enrichment binders as needed, based on current skills, goals, and needs! Comment below to see what’s in ours right now!

Thank goodness it’s February! 😅💕😍💋

Thank goodness it’s February! 😅💕😍💋

It’s time for my favorite Valentine tradition. ❤️ I’ve been sharing this idea (that I got from my cooperating teacher back when I was student teaching) since 2011, and it never gets old. Comment below, and I’ll send you ALL the details to implement this in your classroom!

Year after year, it truly warms my heart to see the sweet compliments that my students write to one another on their Valentine’s Day Compliment Bags, and NOW I look forward to my feed being full of your compliment bags on Valentine’s Day! ❤️

Comment below to learn more about this, to grab the bags, and to read about where I got this idea! 😘

I have four festive MATH FREEBIES for you!! 🤶 M

I have four festive MATH FREEBIES for you!! 🤶 Most are differentiated and range from 3-5th grade skill levels, and they are a hit every single year! ❄️ ⛄️ 🌲🏡

Comment the word “Math” below, and I’ll send them to you! ❤️

⛄️ Snowmen at Christmas Division
🎄 Division Tree
🏡 Multiplication Gingerbread Village
❄️ Multiplication and Division Snowglobe

It’s been such a fun week!! 🎄 Drop a comment

It’s been such a fun week!! 🎄 Drop a comment below, and I’ll send you all the details! ❤️

❄️ ⛅️ Winter (Solstice) is coming, and it’s the PERFECT topic to teach! You know I LOVE a good paired text selection, and I selected three different picture books that present the information in very different ways — realistic fiction, informational, and through verse — and added in an informational text passage and video. ✨ It became the perfect lesson on compiling information from multiple sources! This anchor chart is an easy way to gather the info in one place before synthesizing it!

Drop a comment below, and I’ll send you the book info!

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