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Here you will find all of my posts about reading in one place! From reading anchor charts, activities, task cards, to novel projects, you can reference my reading blog posts in one easy place! Simply click on each picture to be redirected a blog post featuring the reading ideas and other activities related to the topic!

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Place Value Detectives

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Long Division Math Project

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Drone Deliveries, Coordinate and Mapping Math Project

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The Complete Guide to Teaching Prefixes and Suffixes

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Must-Read Novels and Engaging Reading Response Activities for Any Book

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Teaching the Presidential Election

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Teaching the Difference Between Literal and Inferential Observations

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Using Picture Books to Support At-Home Learning

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Supporting Student Learning at Home

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Teaching Students To Use Observations to Infer

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Teaching Oral Reading Fluency

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Main Idea Vs. Theme with Song Lyrics

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Using Pictures to Teach Reading Skills Part 2

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Weekly Letter Writing to Build Community

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Best Back to School Picture Books

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Reading Skills Quick Reference Guide

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One Reading Game: Five Ways

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Reading Skill Review

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Thanksgiving Writing Activity

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Complete Sentences and Beyond!

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Teaching Students to Dissect Responding to Reading Prompts

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Using Pictures to Teach Reading and Writing Skills

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Coordinating Conjunctions and Compound Sentences

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Host a Classroom Book Tasting!

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How and When I Teach Reading Skills in Upper Elementary

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Restating the Question Lesson

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Teaching Quotation Marks and Dialogue

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A Quick and Easy Main Idea Activity!

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Writing Summaries

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Topic Sentences

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Teaching Story Elements & A WONDER Freebie!

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The Best Anchor Chart Paper Ever & A Giveaway!

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Encouraging EXPRESSIVE Readers {A quick and easy activity with a picture book!}

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Teaching Cause and Effect in Upper Elementary

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Analyzing Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts

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An Amazon Listing Cumulative Novel Project!

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Teaching Children to Compare & Contrast

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Advanced Reading Intervention Plans

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Another Cumulative Novel Project!

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Teaching Main Idea Vs. Theme

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Using Pictures to Teach Key Reading Skills

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Ratios and Mysteries!

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Fiction Comprehension

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Figurative Language Review

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Teaching Point of View

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Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting Texts

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Tell Me a Story Tuesday!

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Nonfiction Text Structures & Features Cumulative Assignment

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Nonfiction Summaries

Informational Text Structures

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Non-Fiction Newspaper or Magazine “Book” Report

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Setting the Stage for Novels

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Character Project for ANY Novel!

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Characters, Characters, and more Characters! {And a FREEBIE!}

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Getting busy!

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Top 10 Tips for Building Fluent Readers

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Independent Reading Response Anchor Charts

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Novel Preview Quick Write

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Tell Me a Story Tuesday: Figurative Language

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Tell Me a Story Tuesday

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This Quarter’s Novel Project!

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Literal Vs. Inferential Thinking

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Answering Comprehension Questions

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Tell Me a Story Tuesday

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Pre-Reading Task Cards

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Hard and Soft C and G Sounds

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Visualizing & a Freebie

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Theme & Evidence Anchor Charts

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Task Card Corner

Context Clues

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Nonfiction Main Idea

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Open Ended Comprehension Cards

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Vacationing Student Assignment and Task Card Craziness!

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Story Elements & Main Idea Freebie!

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Consonant + le Intervention

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ABC Novel Project

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Teaching Character Conflict

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The BEST books about books, libraries, and a love The BEST books about books, libraries, and a love of reading! Each and every one of these books is a GEM and perfect for the classroom. 💎 ✨ 💫 Do you see any favorites, or would you add any to the list?

Comment below, and I’ll send you the list for some inspiration!
This was truly a standout activity last year! 👏 This was truly a standout activity last year! 👏  Comment below, and I’ll send you all the info for implementing this in your classroom! More details ⬇️ 

💚🧡 Last October, I read each of these books (on different days) during literacy, and we did a super quick comparison of the characters, problem/solution/plot, and theme of each book. 

🧡One week, we spent several days during morning meeting discussing The Little Ghost for an extended lesson on self-esteem.

🧡 Once we had read and discussed each book, students wrote a short creative essay answering the following:

👻 Imagine you are writing a new picture book to go on this display.

1️⃣ First, explain what specific theme your book would teach about standing out.

2️⃣ Describe your main character, the problem they would face, and the solution.

3️⃣ Finally, explain why your story would fit well with the three books we read.
FREEEEE and so much fun! Comment below, and I’ll FREEEEE and so much fun! Comment below, and I’ll send you this free assignment that’s perfect for enrichment, teaching alliteration or parts of speech, or early finishers! 💖 

🫶We read @oliverjeffers super fun book (it took us several days, reading a few letters each day), and then students created their own mini alliterative stories after some solid brainstorming sessions. 

It was a great lesson in parts of speech, story elements, sentence structure, AND alliteration. As a bonus, kids LOVED it and it made for such a fun classroom display!
Never not teaching word parts. 🩷💚 Comment be Never not teaching word parts. 🩷💚 Comment below, and I’ll send you ALL my resources, including an entire FREE starter kit for teaching your students the basics of prefixes and suffixes!
I’m SO excited to start this next week! These fo I’m SO excited to start this next week! These four books complement each other spectacularly well and are perfect for incorporating “spooky season” into your classroom without focusing on Halloween! 

👏 Comment below, and I’ll send you links to all the info you need! 

I love each and every one of these books, not only for the beautiful messages embedded throughout, but for their glorious art and thought provoking themes. This year, I plan to read one each week during morning meeting and complete the same four tasks each time, as shown on the anchor chart. ⬇️ 

🧡 Character Change throughout the books
🧡 Themes of each book and then an overarching theme of all four
🧡 Themes/Vocab/Imagery/Connotations associated with themes of light and dark (this is my favorite part)!
🧡 First impressions and what’s actually under the surface
Honestly, these slides make my life SO much easier Honestly, these slides make my life SO much easier, and my students are totally engaged. 🫶 Comment below, and I’ll send you a FREE set of reading slides to use tomorrow.
Designing Place Value Parks will NEVER get old! Co Designing Place Value Parks will NEVER get old! Comment below, and I’ll send you this freebie so your Monday plans are ready. 🤗 This was the very first of a dozen FREE Math Pictures I created, and it still lives on as a favorite! 

So…. You might be wondering: How do you end up with eight slides in your Place Value Park? 🧐 By having a zip code with an 8 in the ten thousands place, of course! 🤩 🛝
All totally FREE and inspired by the most frequent All totally FREE and inspired by the most frequently asked questions from parents! 🫶 I like to have sets of these ready to go for parents on conference night, and they’re always a hit. 

Comment below, and I’ll send you all the links! 💕
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