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Restate the Question Task Card Activity
$3.49
32 DIFFERENTIATED Restating the Question Task Cards! Each digital or printable card includes a brief paragraph (16 fiction restating the question cards and 16 nonfiction restating the question cards) and a short who, what, where, when, why, or how question to be answered. The brief passages and questions are designed to help students practice restate…

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Seasonal Reader’s Theater | Science of Reading
$22.49
Save BIG with this bundle of Reader’s Theater plays for every occasion! Fluency and comprehension are at the heart of upper grades reading instruction, and these seasonal reader’s theater plays have been carefully designed to review both! My students absolutely LOVE reader’s theater, and I love all the benefits they provide. I set out to create a set…

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September Back to School Reading Skills and Enrichment Task Cards
$3.99
Engaging and rigorous reading for upper elementary! This set of 56 reading skills task cards is DIGITAL and printable and ready for students in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades. These September (Back to School) themed cards cover a variety of reading and literacy skills and enrichment activities and require absolutely no prep. Each card has…

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Test Prep Math Project | End of the Year Road Trip Math Project
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Engage your students at the end of the year with this digital and printable 15 page road trip themed back to school math project for upper elementary! It is FUN for students and the perfect way to gauge your students’ math, problem solving, and critical thinking abilities at the end of the year. Students in…

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✅✅✅Time saving hack they don’t teach us in

✅✅✅Time saving hack they don’t teach us in school 😂😂 Do you agree, or do you cut, laminate, cut? Weigh in! ⬇️

I LOVE using enrichment binders for my gifted and/

I LOVE using enrichment binders for my gifted and/or high-achieving students. Want to see all the resources inside as we start the school year? Drop a comment with the word “enrichment” and I’ll send you a ton of info with all the details! 💥

Now… why enrichment binders? 🧐 Is this just more busy work? 🙅‍♀️ ❌ Absolutely not!!

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

✨ I’m 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 advanced or enriches their learning and thinking! While that is oftentimes a differentiated task related to the topic at hand, if we’re being realistic, that can be a TON of extra work for teachers to manage all day every day.

💡 That’s where enrichment binders come in! In combination with differentiated class work and appropriate enrichment programs, the content inside 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, and I’ll send you our current line up!

Not a single one is necessary, but I have LOVED ad

Not a single one is necessary, but I have LOVED adding little touches to my room over the years. Here are a few of my favorites! 💖🥰 See anything you’d love to add to your classroom? Comment the word CLASSROOM, and I’ll send links your way!

🎶 A tongue drum to use as a soothing attention-getter and signal to students.

🤩 Koosh Balls for student speakers — whoever has the ball has the floor! I use this all the time for morning meeting.

🧩 Giant Rubik’s Cube because my students are positively OBSESSED with Rubik’s cubes.

🧠 A giant squishy brain ball to toss back and forth during discussions.

🎩 A bin of hats for use when using Six Hat Thinking

💯 Pop It Hundreds Charts for mental math and other math mystery number activities.

🧠 A jar full of stress ball brains for random rewards, fidgeting, kiss your brain moments, etc.

The Day You Begin is one of the best children’s

The Day You Begin is one of the best children’s books I’ve ever read, and I incorporate it into my first few weeks of school every year. ✨ It’s a PERFECT morning meeting activity and super easy to prep! ❤️💖

After we read it at the beginning of the year, the kids write down (anonymously) things that make them unique. Then, we go through and read the sticky notes out loud. If there are kids who had something in common, we place a heart next to the sticky note.

Swipe to see a completed chart from a previous year and to see the last page of the book, which is what inspired me to create this activity. ✨

I saw some sweet little eyes light up when they realized they had more in common with others than they thought!

Posting the standards of mathematical practice in

Posting the standards of mathematical practice in kid-friendly language — Very demure. Very mindful. 🫣😅😍 Drop a comment below, and I’ll send you a link to download them for free!

Who is a morning meeting/Responsive Classroom fan?

Who is a morning meeting/Responsive Classroom fan?! 🤚 Me!!!

This is one of my FAVORITE morning meeting activities and so easy to implement! I HIGHLY recommend it as a back to school activity, too! ✨ Here’s how it works:

”I pulled out a ton of picture books and displayed them all. I asked my students to peruse the titles and covers and choose one that represented either how they were feeling or something about them. They were NOT choosing a book to read or that looked interesting but a book cover and title that related to them in some way.

I almost teared up multiple times hearing them share why they shared their book covers. Not because they were sad reasons but because of how thoughtful and insightful they were. I was BLOWN AWAY and immediately added this to my list of must-do activities on a regular basis!!”

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As a specialist, how do I incorporate morning meeting? Every week, I gather all of my GT students by grade level and hold a special morning meeting. Gifted students have some very unique social and emotional needs, and this is a great time to address them in a comfortable environment.

My goal is always to immerse my students in authen

My goal is always to immerse my students in authentic texts and tasks, but we start every single day with a quick skill review to keep content-specific terms fresh in their minds and well practiced! ✍️ 📖

🚨 Leave a comment below, and I’ll send you the links so you can print and get started this week! 🔗

Thoughtfully designed with kids in mind, it’s easy to implement and impactful all year long. Whether you use the journal format, digital version, or full-page version, it’s accessible and available for grades 2-3 or 4-5 (which offers great options for differentiation!). 🤩

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…and saying “goodnight” every afternoon. 😍 Comment below if you’d like links to the sweet fish family (our new class pet inspired by many others here in the ‘gram), lamp man, or waterfall!! ❤️💖 #classroom #classroomsetup #backtoschool #teacher #teachergram

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