Sometimes, you just need a solid, content-filled resource to help establish routines in your upper elementary classroom, and you can use these daily math warm-ups every day of the school year to spiral standards and provide ongoing assessment and practice for your students. Routine is more important in elementary school

Although all of the passages in this bundle are themed by month, we also have other bundles themed by holiday, everyday topics, or even the ALL ACCESS bundle! Click on the images below to see what each bundle includes. Use Close Reads to Build Structure into your Upper Elementary Class

If you’re looking to make the end of the year memorable, then you’re in the right place. In this blog post, we’re listing out a whole bunch of ideas for ending the school year with your upper elementary students on a high note! Ideas to Make the End of the

Although it can be challenging to give students the freedom to critique you and your class (both positively and negatively), there are still many reasons (10, in fact) why you should survey your students at the end of the year, no matter how difficult it may seem. I have a

Help students master decimal operations in word problems by teaching them these strategies! Breaking down word problems in elementary school is a challenging task, especially when your students are so easily distracted by unnecessary information or details. Something as simple as the character’s name in the question can throw the

A major part of teaching upper elementary is helping students learn different reading strategies to help them as they work on reading comprehension and understanding what they read. No longer are students focused on just reading as fast as they can. In upper elementary, we are focused on making sure

When you use skits to practice theme and work on writing, you’re opening the door to a whole lot of creativity, fun, and great ELA skill review! If you’re ready to get your students up and moving and interacting with each other, then you’ll love our newest idea for teaching

In the new school year, plan to spend more time using writing prompts to connect with students.  When we created the Holiday of the Day Writing Prompts a few years ago, we knew that they would provide some great opportunities for celebrating in the classroom. And we had a good

It’s not enough for students to just know how to copy the math with fractions; rather, students need to understand the why behind adding and subtracting fractions in the first place. Let’s be totally honest: there is a lot of math to teach in upper elementary, and of that math

I love using this figurative language flipbook to solidify my students’ understanding of figurative language and to track the examples we find throughout the year! Figurative Language is one of those topics that it seems like we teach and teach and teach again, so as I tried to find ways