Upper elementary resources

Perfect paragraph writing, every time. A simple, step-by-step process to writing clear, well-crafted paragraphsin upper elementary. GET ACCESS Maintaining a work-life balance as a teacher can be impossible if you don’t have the right resources. Upper elementary teachers are usually… Lesson planning forand grading multiple subjects Reinventing the wheel due to poor school curriculums Juggling fartoo […]

Download FREE Words Their Way word study resources for upper elementary. The activities, notebook resources, tips, and more included in this blog post will help you get your word study routines and schedule ready and organized for your 4th grade or 5th grade classroom! Unit 1 resources are FREE for WTW sorts for Letter-Name Alphabetic Spellers, Within Word Pattern Spellers, Syllables and Affixes Spellers, and Derivational Relations Spellers. #tarheelstateteacher

Teach text structures with this nonfiction text structure anchor chart and FREE sorting activity! Ideal lesson for the upper elementary classroom that includes 8 free passages!

Our job as teachers is to turn our students into avid readers. On this post, I will share the tips and strategies I use to get my students excited to read.

My students are always using and referring to different writing tools. I created these individual writing toolkits with lots of free writing resources.

Bring The Science of Reading to your upper elementary classroom with these easy to implement tips and resources!

Upper Elementary Snapshots: Setting Up Literacy Centers in the Upper Elementary Classroom #literacy #reading #readingcenters #literacycenters

Are you moving to a new grade level? Have you always taught younger primary grades (kindergarten, first, second) and are overwhelmed with the idea of moving to third, fourth, fifth or sixth grades? Changing to teach upper elementary has so many unexpected benefits and challenges. Check out the BEST tips for making the leap from primary to upper elementary and middle school and how to set up your new classroom.

Teachers, are you looking for easy to implement and simple ways to hold your students accountable during independent reading during in Readers Workshop? Read my free tips and strategies to hold your kids accountable for what they read during small groups, book clubs, independent reading, silent reading, and any time they pick up a book! Help kids track as they read a variety of texts all year long. Ideas are perfect for upper elementary and middle school classes. Click to read more!

We teach figurative language in upper elementary. This can be a bit of a tricky skill for students in fourth, fifth or sixth grades, but I’ve developed some engaging and rigorous activities that help students to comprehend and use figurative language in their own writing and language assignments.

Bright Ideas Blog Hop Essential Upper Elementary Classroom Jobs

Is your team, school, or admin looking at departmentalizing? Are you curious about what a departmentalized classroom might look like in upper elementary? Take a look at the 5 key areas (and pros and cons for each) to consider when making this change. Including: teacher and student relationships, subject mastery, consistency, time management, and collaboration.

Teaching poetry in upper elementary can be FUN... I promise! Over the years I've honed my poetry unit and my students love it! Take a peek at the best poetry resources for upper elementary including anchor charts, poems, lesson plans, and cross-curricular activities.

Classroom management is crucial to your students' success. Read my top classroom management tips for upper grades on this post.

An Upper Elementary Collaborative blog written by 13 teachers. Includes teaching ideas and resources for grades 3, 4, and 5.

Have you wanted to try math journals in your classroom? Do you need math journal ideas? Then you will love these math journal prompts for 1st - 6th grade!

Have you started using math projects as a part of your regular upper elementary math instruction... because you should be! When I’m looking for rigorous practice that’s so fun the students almost forget they’re learning, I turn to math projects! Take a peek at how I incorporate real world math projects into our regular classroom routines.

Your students will absolutely love using this free resource to practice identifying text structures in high-interest paragraphs. This free resource comes in both a printable and digital format.

Higher level math centers will really get your students thinking and writing about math. Read about my top six favorite higher level math centers.