Teaching Ideas For Elementary Teachers

These 13 teacher and expert-tested strategies (plus 10 anchor charts) will strengthen your students' ability to find and use evidence from any text.

Anchor Chart: How do readers know when to stop?

This page can be used several ways: as a pre assessment or post assessment for teaching nonfiction text features. It can also be used as practice for students. It covers 12 different text features (boldface, caption, diagram, glossary, heading, highlighted text, index, map, photograph, sidebar, TOC,...

I was inspired by this pin: Source: twitpic.com via Kathy on Pinterest So I had to make my own! Game Plan: When stud...

Do your students have trouble finding text evidence to support their answers to basic comprehension questions? After reading short passages, your students will underline the textual evidence that answers each basic comprehension question using a simple color-code. The January pack is perfect for le...

Freebie Friday! Enjoy a FREE non-fiction text structure reference sheet for your classroom! Students can use this resource to identify features of various non-fiction texts while supporting their learning of content.Visit my store to download this freebie, or click on the picture below! (Click on the picture above for a direct link to the freebie!) Interested in collecting more resources for integrating non-fiction text structures? Check out my blog post here! It shares many lesson ideas and…

Hey everyone! I feel like it's been FOREVER since I blogged! I am trying to get all of my parent conferences complete. Hopefully I will have WAY more time to create stuff for you all to use once those are out of the way! Over the next week, we are doing a Science and Social Studies combined project to get a major grade in both areas. While I attended the SC Social Studies conference, I heard about this menu idea to give students an alternate and differentiated assessment. Even if you don't…

Part of the Common Core requires that students cite text evidence when answering questions. For most of our students, this is a new concept that they must become accustomed to. That's why I created this poster to help my own students with the transition. I hope in posting them here you can make use ...

This printable includes a close read mini poster with the following format: -First Read-Read to get to know the text or characters -Second Read-Read with your Pencil-Code Sheet included for this Third Read-Read for Skill (whatever skill you're working on that week) This freebie is a general format...

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Can y'all believe it's already July???? Where in the world did June go and how can we get it back? I love my job, but I believe I would be perfectly fine with June lasting all year. :) I've decided to try and get my classroom done and put together as soon as I can, so I can enjoy summer before having to go back to school in August. This way, it won't stress me out and I know I won't run out of time, which is what happened last year. So for the past couple of days, I worked EXTREMELY hard and…

3rd Grade Reading Genres chart- use when going to the library o get a variety of books

When to annotate a text anchor chart

Upper elementary blog with practical, rigorous, classroom tested ideas to implement with your students.