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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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🚨 It is Teacher Care Week here at Teaching With

🚨 It is Teacher Care Week here at Teaching With a Mountain View! Baking cookies is one of my favorite ways to calm the chaos after a busy day in the classroom. 🥰 Since I can’t bake any for you, I’d love to send five of you a gift card to your favorite treat location!

💕💕 Comment below with your favorite treat to see in the teacher’s lounge, and I’ll automatically enter you AND send you an exclusive FREE resource to use with your students!

This is one the BEST traditions my previous school

This is one the BEST traditions my previous school had, and I include it in my FREE Last Week of School Lesson plans!

It was inspired by a segment on GMA, and the students each wrote three words to describe their year. We would take pictures of the students with their words and put together a huge school-wide slide show on the last day of school to showcase our words.⁣ I still LOVE doing it with students and making it into a collaborative chart!
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➡ So tell me... what would YOUR three words be to describe this year? 😂 Comment below, and I’ll send you my FREE lesson plans for the last week of school!

My students have been BEGGING for more of this boo

My students have been BEGGING for more of this book and the activity that goes with it!! They are GLUED to the tales and love trying to interpret them.

Comment below, and I’ll send you a link to the book! 📪 📕

Each of these ten word tales is sliiiiiightly unsettling and unusual and REALLY makes kids think through the possibilities! I shared several with my students, and they were obsessed with them!

Then, I had them write their own 10 word tales (harder than it seems!). Since the illustrations add so much to the story, I had the kids SWITCH tales and illustrate their partner’s tales. They LOVED this part and seeing how their meaning was interpreted by their illustrator!

They begged so much to do this again that I obliged, and that STILL wasn’t enough! 😂

Disclaimer: Some of the tales really are odd and a little unsettling, so preview them ahead of time — I recommend this one for the older (3rd grade+) crowd! 💕

We’re down to our last three weeks of school! 😮 🤩 I’m trying to get ahead in life (is that even possible?!) so I’ve started selecting the perfect award for each of my students. There are over 130 options, and using autofill has saved me SO much time. 🥰

Comment below, and I’ll send you the link!

Happy Saturday!! 📚 💕 Let’s talk novels —

Happy Saturday!! 📚 💕 Let’s talk novels — Tell me your grade level and very favorite novel(s) to teach! I have a list a mile long of novels I love teaching, but I’m narrowing it down for a special project we have in the works.

Comment ANIMALS below, and I’ll send you the lin

Comment ANIMALS below, and I’ll send you the links to my animals!! 🐰 🦆💕

I’ve been sharing about success stickers for years, and while my students still love them (and get to choose between a sticker or animal!), I noticed this trend of kids collecting these tiny acrylic animals. I decided Accomplishment Animals should be a thing, and they love, love, love it. 🥰

Each week, students share a success (or accomplishment!) with me. It can be anything — inside or out of school, big or small. We chat about it for less than a minute, and they pick a sticker or tiny animal as a reminder of all the successes they’ve had. It’s such an easy way to connect with students, and I’ve learned so much about each of them!

Oh, just over here causing some classroom chaos wi $Oh, just over here causing some classroom chaos with this fraction lesson. 😂🤗 Huge shout out to Meg from @theteacherstudio for this one… I give each child a slip of paper with this figure (so they can’t say my drawing isn’t perfect as their justification 😂) and they have to silently write their answer and justification. Then I tally up the answers and have students take a side and DEBATE with their reasoning! It’s an AMAZING conversation, and I highly recommend trying it with your students.$

I’ve got to share one of my absolute favorite mo

I’ve got to share one of my absolute favorite morning meetings connection activities—it’s super easy to set up and seriously one of the most meaningful things I’ve done with my students. I’ve been doing this for years and LOVE the reflections that come from it. 💕💕
 ✨ I pulled a bunch of picture books and spread them out for students to look through. The twist? They weren’t picking a book to read—they were picking a cover and title that represented them somehow. Maybe how they were feeling, or something about their personality.

The things they shared? I was not ready. I almost cried—not because it was sad, but because their answers were so thoughtful and real. It honestly blew me away.

If you want more ideas for incorporate books into your morning meetings, drop a comment, and I’ll send you some ideas! 💕💕

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