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

How I Organize My Literacy Block

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It’s the BATTLE OF THE BEST BOOKS EVER. 📚 🥰 If you had to choose just one of these gems to start your year, which one would it be?

I can’t choose just one 😂, so I’m going to read all three, do mini lessons and activities with each, and then try out a lesson on comparing and contrasting with all three, and I’m super excited!

Let’s talk Task Cards and Scoot!! 👏 I still

Ten years ago, I started “Tell Me a Story Tuesda

Ten years ago, I started “Tell Me a Story Tuesday” where every week on my blog, I would post a picture and all the reading skills I could teach or review using it. 📸

Since then, it has evolved into one of my favorite teaching practices ever! I use pictures for grammar skills, reading skills, figurative language, and more. It has become an absolute ✨staple✨ in my classroom.

Do YOU use pictures to help reinforce reading skills? (Not to be confused with using pictures to guess words!) If you haven’t tried it yet, I highly recommend incorporating it into your classroom! I have a TON of ideas on my blog, and you can even use your own pictures or pictures your students bring in. ❤️

I start each year with ✨explicit✨ lessons that

I start each year with ✨explicit✨ lessons that teach students about the components of oral reading fluency. We KNOW how important it is to expose students to high-quality connected texts that allow them to hone these skills. We KNOW that the ability to read fluently (not to be confused with quickly) is a major contributor to comprehension. That’s why I developed this lesson sequence! (It’s free! Comment here, and I’ll send it to you!)

📚We focus on one element of fluent reading per day with a short lesson and about five minutes of practice using short passages written to practice those specific skills.

📝 We build this anchor chart as we move through the lessons and it hangs in the room all year!

📕 We use a wide variety of connected texts all year long to practice oral reading fluency.

🌟 Devoting these few minutes to fluency lessons at the beginning of the year sets students up for success while practicing fluent reading all year long.

If you’d like these free lessons, drop a comment below, and I’ll send them your way! ❤️👏

P.S. These lessons are designed for upper elementary classrooms and should be used in conjunction with direct instruction in phonics, phonemic awareness, morphology, etc.

Raise your hand if you have identified gifted stud

Raise your hand if you have identified gifted students in your class! 🤚 As a gifted facilitator, I serve as an advocate for my kids and their academic and social emotional needs. I know it can be overwhelming to differentiate for the mannnnnnny needs in a classroom, but all kids deserve the opportunity to learn and show at least on year’s growth every year. Here are three important things to remember as you get started thinking about gifted students in your classroom:

👀 Whenever possible, differentiation and enrichment should be given instead of (as a replacement for), not in addition to their grade-level classroom work. This is particularly important if they have already demonstrated mastery of a skill.

👀 Gifted students often have asynchronous development, which means their academic ability can be significanty more advanced than
their physical, social, and emotional development. Their academic skills across subjects may not be the same, either.

👀 Allowing them to teach others what they already know does not help them grow. Having gifted kids spend a signicant amount of time supporting and teaching their grade-level peers is not indicated as a best practice. Sure, it’s great for them to take on leadership roles and work in some heterogenous groups, but their primary early finisher opportunity should not be supporting other students. Keep this in mind when grouping students for projects, too.

Give me all the nonfiction books that kids will LO

Give me all the nonfiction books that kids will LOVE!! 📚 It can be so hard to find amazing nonfiction texts that get kids exciting about learning, but these three will be making their way to my bookshelves this year!

@whatonearth_books Hit it out of the park with the engagement factor! I can’t wait to incorporate all three (I’m going to use the bedtime stories during our camping day!) into my lessons this year.

Each week, my students share (at least) one succes

Each week, my students share (at least) one success with me, and I have learned SO much about them while celebrating their accomplishments. No success is too small and half the time they are just great stories they want to tell me, things they are looking forward to, or challenges they have overcome (or are working to overcome).❤️❤️

I have always done my best to connect with students on a personal level, and this has been an amazing way to accomplish that for each of my students. ❤️

Who loves a good MINI transformation? 🤚 🔍 Re

Who loves a good MINI transformation? 🤚 🔍 Read more to WIN amazing goodies for a DETECTIVE transformation! 👏

I am all about engagement, and putting together a day or two of detective tasks is always a win for kids! It doesn’t have to be elaborate to make a HUGE impact, and all of my detective resources are 25% off through tonight during the TpT Back to School Event!

Save this post and Comment below with your favorite back to school activity, and you’ll be entered to win these activities AND some fun detective goodies to pull off a fun and rigorous day for your students. (Notepads! Confidential stamp! Detective folders! Mini Magnifying Glasses! …and more!)

Here are my favorite detective activities:

👣 Math Place Value Detectives
👣 Inference Detectives
👣 Reading Logic Puzzle Mystery
👣 Math Detectives
👣 Elapsed Time Detectives

If you’d like the individual links to any activities, let me know in the comments, and I’ll send them your way!

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