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Free Fraction Practice (Self-Grading Google Forms for Embedded Skills)
My students always seemed to struggle with all.the.steps involved in fraction operations. To help, I made sure to practice (and ...
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How to Teach Reading Skills to Below-Level Readers
It’s definitely a challenge as a 4th and 5th grade teacher to have students who are reading 2+ grade levels ...
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How to Bridge Phonics Gaps in Grades 4-5 – Teaching with Jennifer Findley
When students get to 4th and 5th grade, there’s an expectation that they are reading to learn and that they ...
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What Other Students Are Doing During Small Group Reading in 4th & 5th Grade
We all know that small group reading instruction time is really important. It’s important that we have that time to ...
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Free 4th Grade Math Vocabulary Posters
When learning new math skills and concepts, it is important for students to develop a strong understanding of the math ...
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Free Resource to Review Story Elements: Passages, Task Cards, and More!
Story elements are taught beginning as early as kindergarten, but it always seems like I need to spend a little ...
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End Of Year Activities
It’s hard to believe it’s already time to break out my favorite end of year activities, but here it is! ...
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Fractions Greater Than One
Teaching fractions greater than one shouldn’t be an isolated part of your fraction unit. Instead, fractions greater than one should ...
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Morphology Activity – Word Chains with Free Resources
Do you want to engage your students AND improve their vocabulary and morphological skills with one activity? This post shares ...
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Morphology Activities for Grades 4-5 (Including Free Activities)
Morphology instruction can greatly improve students’ vocabulary and comprehension skills. This post shares several engaging and effective morphology activities that ...
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Geometry Worksheets & Activities
When teaching upper elementary math, it’s important that geometry worksheets and activities are more than memorizing geometric terms. Of course, ...
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Free End of Year Literacy Activity – Idioms Sort
When testing is over and summer break is on the horizon, it can be a challenge to keep students engaged ...
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Free Easter Math Graphing Activity – Grades 3-5
This time of year quickly gets very busy quickly and stressful with testing on the horizon and end of year ...
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Free Math Test Prep Task Cards for Vocabulary – Grades 4-5
As a teacher, you know how important it is for your students to have a strong grasp of math vocabulary ...
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Teaching Fraction Sense
Rather than titling this post “Teaching Fraction Sense”, I might should have titled it “Teaching FOR Fraction Sense” as it’s ...
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Free Figurative Language Posters for Grades 4-5
One topic I look forward to teaching during ELA each year is figurative language. It is such a fun concept ...
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Fraction Games
When I think back to how I taught fractions my first few years of teaching, I wish I could go ...
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St. Patrick’s Day Math Graphing Activity
There are few things that catch my students’ attention more than food or a celebration, so when I had the ...
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Allusions to Greek Mythology
Students almost always love learning about allusions to Greek Mythology. To capitalize on that interest I created a new Allusions ...
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Teaching Prose and Drama
This article was originally designed to include poetry, prose, and drama. However, I quickly saw the need to give poetry ...
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Free Presidents’ Day Reading Activities (4th & 5th Grade)
Those winter months can be long and cold, so I look for any opportunity to mix things up in my ...
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Teaching Poetry In Upper Elementary
Many teachers wait until late winter or spring to begin teaching poetry, prose, and drama, and it’s always a refreshing ...
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Poetry Activities & Lessons
Many teachers wait until late winter or spring to begin teaching poetry lessons, and it’s always a refreshing change of ...
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Teaching Figurative Language
We are moving into one of my favorite reading units of the year: poetry, prose, and drama. Within the unit, ...
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Figurative Language Worksheets & Activities
Figurative language worksheets, activities, and lessons can be so much fun! I begin the unit with a brief overview of ...