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Back to School Reader’s Theater Scripts
$4.99
Fluency and comprehension are at the heart of upper grades reading instruction, and these back to school 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 of Reader’s Theater that helps students practice…

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Reading Skill of the Day Weekly Journal | Set One
$14.99
Engage your students in a daily review of 17 key reading skills with this HUGE Reading Skill of the Day Weekly Journal. This weekly journal covers common core reading skills and is perfect for fourth and fifth grades. Included in the file you will find: 20 Weeks Worth of Daily Reading Skill Review Complete Teacher…

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Using Pictures to Review MIXED Reading Skills
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Are you reading to take your skill-based reading comprehension instruction to the next level? Using Pictures to Teach and Review Reading Skills is a well-loved, teacher-approved method that has become a staple in classrooms across the globe. This resource has been designed to help you teach and review reading comprehension skills using pictures AND teach…

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Using Pictures to Teach Reading Skills | Digital and Printable
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Teach and review reading skills using pictures AND teach students how to apply their skills to short reading passages! With these 40 printable and digital pages, students will have the opportunity to observe a picture and make inferences, ask questions, make predictions, etc., practice a reading skill based on the picture, and apply the reading…

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I know I talk about our weekly letters a lot, but

I know I talk about our weekly letters a lot, but they really are a teaching highlight for me. 💖 We are only two letters into the year, and I’ve already learned so much about my students! I LOVE reading what they write, and their eyes light up when they see my responses. 🥹

📝 This year, we spent a class period inquiring about what makes a good letter (they had to pick out all the elements from my first letter) and how to respond to a letter.

🍎Then, we read pen pal letters to make inferences and identify more elements that make a letter great. It was only a 30 minute lesson, but in return, I received some of the best letters back that I’ve ever seen!

If you want to know more, drop a comment with the word LETTERS, and I’ll send you more info and a free letter pack to get started! 📫

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I am a HUGE proponent of creating interactive anch

I am a HUGE proponent of creating interactive anchor charts with your class, and these anchor chart templates ALWAYS come in handy!

💥 Need dozens of anchor chart templates to help you with your lesson planning? Comment CHARTS below, and I’ll send the links your way!! 💥

Now, let’s talk anchor charts… 👇

📝 I 💯 believe anchor charts should be made WITH students, but that doesn’t mean you’re winging the content, so I often print a template as a guide for my teaching.

👉Then, I print them in quarter page size to add to reference rings since wall space is at a minimum and most charts can’t stay up all year! Some years, kids have their own reference rings and others we have class reference rings for students to use!

💡 Use in Notebooks: Create the chart with your students but have them glue a template into their notebooks for later reference and annotation.

⛔️ 🔥 Every year, I set the expectation from

⛔️ 🔥 Every year, I set the expectation from day one that saying “I don’t get it” isn’t an option. Is it okay to not understand something? 100000% YES! 💯

Can we equip students with strategies for this circumstance so it doesn’t become a roadblock? 🚧 Yeeeeeessss!!

💬 I use the book Avocado Asks to teach about questioning, and then we create this chart to hang in our room ALL year. It gives students ownership over how they communicate when they have questions or misunderstandings, and it is phenomenal to see how the kids begin to utilize it.

✏️ We are implementing 7 Steps to a Language-Rich classroom, and the top section of this chart comes directly from it. I added the tricky problem sentences to help students have clear strategies and stems for tackling things they’re unsure of.

P.S. Anchor charts don’t have to be fancy to be impactful, but they do need to be referenced regularly. 😉

✅✅✅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!

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