Welcome to my blog, designed specifically for upper elementary teachers looking to enhance their literacy instruction and novel studies! My goal is to provide you with a wealth of resources and teaching ideas that will help you engage your students and promote a love of reading and learning. From book lists to reading strategies to novel study guides, I have everything you need to take your classroom to the next level. Thank you for visiting!
Do you struggle to keep your students focused on reading skills during the holiday season? Using high-interest teaching materials will greatly improve …
Are you looking for some activities for teaching conjunctions? This post has links to printables, games, posters, and more. Teaching Conjunctions Video …
Creating bulletin boards for the school hallway can be a real challenge. Not only must they look impressive, but they also have …
Take some of the stress away from teaching endless rules for understanding pronouns with some of these fun hands-on activities. Use the …
Teaching adjectives has never been easier. Check out the games, videos, PowerPoints, classroom displays, printables, and more. Teaching Video with Organizer This …
Are you looking for a great reading activity to do this Halloween season with your students? The Wolves in the Walls is …
Are you looking for some activities to teach nouns? Look no further. This post contains PowerPoints, posters, games, and more. Something to …
Are you looking for some activities for teaching interjections? Look no further. This post includes YouTube video lessons, posters, anchor charts, and …
The Reading Crew is a group of primary through middle school reading specialists. About three to four times a year, we share …
Are you looking for a great book to teach comparing an actual event to its fictional account? If so, The Man Who …
All parents want their children to become better readers. The Connection Newsletter provides parents with ideas and links to resources to help …
Are your students struggling to figure out how to organize information on graphic organizers? This post includes 4 practice exercises including both …
Do you want your students to be able to incorporate different persuasive techniques into their writing? Should students be able to make …
I’m excited to share this detailed free sampling of my Prefixes Suffixes and Roots Series. This sample contains three activities for 4 …
Who said teaching vocabulary had to be boring? This post contains different word wheel activities for students to enjoy while learning …
Teaching students to use context clues is fun with the right materials. Be sure to get the handout, as it contains all …
People have played pranks on one another on April 1 for centuries. No one can pinpoint the first celebration of April Fools’ …
Students love playing games and solving puzzles. With these fun activities, students won’t even realize how much they are learning. In the …
A learning log is a specialized type of journal. Unlike typical journals, students record responses to the educational material they are learning. …
Most students dread grammar lessons. With Teaching Grammar with Animated Shorts, students will ask when the class will be able to do …
Most students dread grammar lessons. With Teaching Grammar with Animated Shorts, students will ask when the class will be able to do …
Check out these five Groundhog Day activities. Students will enjoy learning why we celebrate this holiday. The cookie recipe is not only …
Are you looking for a new twist on teaching poetic elements? Check out these seven activities that use winter poems and figurative …
Teaching students classroom collaboration is such an important part of teaching. It doesn’t matter if teachers are trying to prepare students for …
Let’s face it. Some lessons are just more fun for teachers as well as students than others. Students would rather read the …
If you are looking for some Christmas stories to teach your students how to compare and contrast, check out The Year of the …
Are you looking for some new activities to add to your lesson plans? Check out these 10 Christmas compare and contrast writing …
Teaching students to make connections between previous knowledge, experiences, and emotions and the text they are reading, will — help the reader …
Add a little fun to Halloween with these five activities. First, students will practice reading a table of information and then …
Students love watching animated shorts. You can find dozens of Halloween animated shorts with just a few searches; however, many are not …
Are you tired of the same spelling routine? With this Teaching Spelling with Animated Shorts Series, students will be highly engaged in …
Analogies are a great way to teach students how to compare and contrast words, concepts, and ideas. They help students develop their …
Analogies are a powerful way to help your 4th and 5th-grade students learn new words. In this blog post, I will show you …
Every year Roald Dahl Day is celebrated on September 13, Dahl’s birthday. Have an exceptional Roald Dahl Day with some of these resources! …
A writer’s voice is the combination of sentence structure, punctuation, word choice, and personality a person uses when writing. It is the …
For some students, knowing when to use formal or informal language comes naturally. For others, it is a skill that must be …
Common Core uses the terms retell, recount, and summarize in the literature section. Just what does this mean? What prerequisite skills will …
The Common Core State Standards include at least one standard on sentence writing across all elementary grade levels. Most of these deal …
Have you ever read a student narrative that was written as one long paragraph? Knowing when to make new paragraphs comes naturally …
Teaching students to write a good narrative is an ongoing process. Begin by teaching character traits, point of view/perspective, setting, theme, plot …
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