If you are looking for some games to practice ELA vocabulary, then you are going to love this mix-and-match of digital and hands-on games for upper elementary students. Let’s be honest, ELA vocabulary can sometimes feel like you’re teaching a different language. Language Arts class is full of all sorts

If you are looking for ways to study genre in your upper elementary classroom, then you’ll want to download these FREE Reading Genre Review Slides and try out some of these new ideas for using them. Teaching genre is important in upper elementary because it helps students see all the

Get in the spirit of the holiday with these Halloween-themed review activities for upper elementary. With all the candy, costumes, and fall decor, Halloween is truly one of the most fun holidays to celebrate with students, but we can’t let this fun, spooky holiday creep into too much class time.

Check out these ready-to-use, no/low prep activities for practicing decimal place values in upper elementary. Let’s be honest. If you’ve only covered whole number place value with your upper elementary students, then you’ve really only covered a fraction of the content (pun intended). Now, it is time to dive into

Use these 5 fun rounding activities for upper elementary to supplement your rounding lessons this year. Rounding numbers is something that always seems like it should be so easy, but it takes some practice for this skill to come easily to students. Good rounding instruction includes a good introduction of

When you’re looking for the best activities for practicing multiplication and division facts, look no further than these fun, interactive classroom resources! The journey to math greatness often takes a long layover…or maybe just an extended pause around multiplication and division. After spending so much time working on adding and

Practicing context clues in upper elementary is easy with these 5 easy activities! Few things hinder a young reader more than trying to read a new book and encountering confusing, unknown words. But somehow, many people are able to continue on anyway. Why is that? How was it that J.K.

When looking for holiday writing activities for your upper elementary class, look no further than these Holiday of the Day Writing Prompts When you get the Holiday of the Day Writing Prompts, you are firmly establishing that in your classroom, every day is going to be a holiday. Featuring a

One of the easy ways to improve test scores is to work on student vocabulary. This post provides a few resource suggestions as well as some ideas for improving vocabulary instruction in your upper elementary classroom. Unfortunately testing is not going away any time soon, so teachers everywhere are trying